Recipes
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Easy Japanese Sweetened Kidney Beans
One of Japan’s staple small dishes, red kidney beans stewed in sweetened soy sauce. It’s not something you would eat every day, but there are times where you get a craving for it. This recipe…
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Crispy Tofu With Cashews and Nappa
Our family prefers Chinese cabbage (Nappa) to snap peas, so I used a lot of Chinese cabbage. You might be able to use just cabbage. We often have coconut milk in the house,…
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Vegan Apple Cider Bundt Cake
I’ve started getting excited about the coming of autumn, like many people in America do. When it comes to autumn in Japan, we say “autumn is an appetite’. But since coming to America…
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Super Easy Mini Pumpkin Bundt Cakes
I found this recipe for the first time around Halloween, and made it for my daughter. Anyhow, I thought the original recipe looked cute, and I rearranged the decorations a bit for my own…
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St. Patrick’s Day Corned Beef
I first learned about Corned beef, which is a salted beef dish, when I came to America. This year, I got the chance to make it for the first time in my life.…
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Crunchy Coconut Oil Cookies
Which one do you like to eat, soft cookies or crunchy cookies? These cookies are a bit crunchy and also crispy. My daughter and I like these kinds of texture more than soft…
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Vegan Raspberry Almond Cake Bars
I made this because it included raspberries and almonds, so I thought I would like it. However, I was a little disappointed with the end result. I was hoping it would turn out…
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Rainbow Sprinkle Funfetti Cake
It was only after I became a parent when I learned that what parents want to feed a child, and what children want to eat, are not always the same. I came across…
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Best Traditional Easter Dinner
You can’t have Easter without things like ham, spring vegetables, hot-cross, buns and dessert, but our house celebrated Easter with an Easter-like meal using spring vegetables (we also had hot-cross buns, but didn’t…
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Pulled Pork Kid Friendly
It’s very hard to find the very thin-sliced meat you find in Japan in America. Even if you request meat Shabu-shabu-cut, most places are unable to do so. This is when I learned…
