Cooking report from a couple from Australia

I was just impressed and screamed "Wow!" when I saw this picture which was sent from a lady by email just took my class a week before. It seems like a restaurant, but even somewhere heart warming food and lovely atmosphere. The table expresses her mindful life and her sense of beauty.

I believe it is not easy to get Japanese ingredients in her local grocery store, but she prepared all the right ingredients for the cooking.

One of my purpose to teach Japanese cooking for Japan tourists is to recognize cooking Japanese food is easier than people expect.

Many people from the world love Japanese food and they visited to Japan because the foods are delicious. Even though not many people haven't cooked Japanese food at home, but experienced to taste them in Japanese restaurants.

There is no big difference between restaurant food and home style food. Cooking at home is even healthier and inexpensive than food in restaurant. So I'd love people cook easy Japanese food at home.

Those are basic seasonings for cooking

Miso

Soy saue

Mirin, can be substituted for honey

Rice vinegar

Those seasonings are all fermented food and enable the ingredients better texture and tastier. So it is important to choose right seasonings at the begging of cooking.

The picture encouraged me to teach Japanese homestyle cooking more enthusiastically.

I hope she's been still enjoying cooking new Japanese dishes.

Welcomed lovely couple from Aus for Seasonal Cooking Class

It was a beautiful day in late May. A couple who are Japanese food lover, both taste and cook, visited my cooking class.

Since I got in touch with them by email beforehand, I knew they have open mind for every Japanese ingredients and dishes, and eager to try unique seasonal dishes.

It is very important to know what the students want to learn/cook at the class, more precise become better result in my cooking class.

I have picked up several seasonal ingredients and cooked together. They both did great work and very efficient work at my small kitchen.

I liked to conversation with them, like what they usually cook for dinner and what they eat breakfast... something cooking background of the people from the world.

They really want to know what the exact ingredients to cook Japanese food.

I usually recommend to buy those seasonings.

*Soy sauce

*Sake

*Miso

*Mirin

*Rice vineger

They really enjoyed the food at the class and leave the message that the lunch was the best food during their stay in japan! I appreciate it!

Surprisingly, a couple of days later, I got a email with pic from the couple, they got right ingredients in their area, near Perth.

Amazing! You could get the seasonings seems good quality. I believe the lady will cook great Japanese dish near future.

More surprisingly, I god cooking report in a couple of days later....

Private Cooking Class in May

It's been beautiful day in early May in Tokyo. I have welcomed beautiful lady from LA this morning. She is very open minded for Japanese unique ingredients so we prepared food what's in season in Japan.

The characteristic ingredients in spring is fresh baby squid. We eat this in raw as sashimi, and often eat with sweet vinegar miso. As the preparation, I usually remove the eye balls of squids because those bother the texture.

Baby squid sashimi is often served with sweet sour miso. The miso sauce is very useful as salad dressing or sauce for sashimi, I like to use it for white fish sashimi.

We cooked many home style dishes besides baby squid sashimi.

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Oyako-don, cooked chicken and egg in soy sauce scented dashi stock over rice

Pan fried spring vegetables with miso sauce

Baby squid sashimi with seaweed salad

Miso soup

Thank you very much for coming Private Seasonal Cooking Class in Food & Friends Tokyo!

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