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White miso paste, also called mild or sweet miso. Photo © CrumbsAndTales. Try their recipe for carrot, miso and ginger salad dressing. Almost everyone who has been to a Japanese restaurant has had miso soup. But today’s tip includes other things to do with miso (MEE-zoe). Thanks to the popularity of miso, you can…
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Ramen: voted the greatest Japanese invention of the 20th century. Photo © Olga Nayashkova | Fotolia. It may be old news, but we just came across an old Japanese survey that names instant ramen as “the greatest invention of the 20th century.” We would have passed it by, but for the the fact that…
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Look for the bright orange-red boxes in your grocer’s freezer case. Photo courtesy Tandoor Chef. Our neighborhood has two good Indian restaurants and there are many more around town; but we were more than satisfied with the frozen foods from Tandoor Chef. The family-run company produces authentic, restaurant quality, all natural frozen Indian cuisine.…
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Kudos to the chef at Sushi Lounge (three locations in New Jersey) who created this Easter treat. (Based on their Facebook photos, there’s more than one creative chef behind the bar.) You can recreate it at home, with A strip of nori (dried seaweed) Sushi rice* or regular rice Hard-boiled eggs for the head and…
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A sushi chef interprets sashimi for the 21st century. Photo courtesy RA Sushi | Orlando. The sashimi tradition dates back to Japan’s Muromachi period, approximately 1337 to 1573 C.E. In the 1500s, when someone thought to cut up raw fish and dip the pieces into soy sauce, sashimi was born. The marriage with pads…
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