Category Archives: nabemono

How to make chicken tsukune (Japanese meatball recipe)

Tsukune is so awesome and simple to make. Everybody loves these things. Tsukune is, simply enough, a Japanese-style chicken meatball usually served in izakaya and yakitori restaurants. I’ve seen them (and eaten them) made in so many different ways that … Continue reading

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Asagohan nabemono (Japanese style breakfast hotpot)

Sometimes I make a nabemono, or Japanese-style hotpot, for breakfast. This is a simple, rustic nabemono that I made to use up some old cabbage and burdock root (gobo).

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How to make sukiyaki

Sukiyaki is one of those dishes that I could eat every single day for the rest of my life and not really ever grow tired of it. Sweet and salty thin-sliced beef, pungent shingiku and negi, flavorful shitake, and flavor … Continue reading

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