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Brown Rice & Veggie Stuffed Japanese Eggplant

Today I’m talking heart health and whole grains for American Heart Month over on Six Servings, the blog for the Grain Foods Foundation. I’m serving up my recipe for brown rice and veggie stuffed Japanese eggplant. This dish is full of flavor and nutrients, and I think you’ll love it as much as my family [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day to all of you, my wonderful friends and readers! I hope your day is a wonderful one! If you love chocolate as much as I do, don’t miss our newest Miso Hungry episode all about chocolate in honor of the day of love! Plus, we’ve got some super cute chocolate bar wrappers [...]

Not only is Valentine’s Day tomorrow, but February is also American Hearth Month, a month dedicated to spreading awareness about the importance of heart health. In honor of all matters of the heart this month, my fellow OnDivas have been sweet enough to humor me, and help me put together a video, featuring some of [...]

Tamago kake gohan (卵かけご飯) (“egg over rice”) is a popular Japanese breakfast dish, which consists of hot steamed Japanese rice, topped with raw egg, and toppings. Ten years ago I doubt that the thought of eating a raw egg would have sounded the least bit appetizing. (Although I’ve never been one to turn down a [...]

Okay, I know that the Super Bowl has come and gone, but after talking to some people about this avocado dip concept over the weekend, I realized I had never shared it with you! So even though you enjoyed your Super Bowl food yesterday, I’m sure that you may still have a need for a [...]

My recipe for shogayaki sando, a sandwich filled with thin pan-fried slices of pork marinated in a ginger soy sauce marinade, has been a while in the making. When I visited my friend Nancy, at her home in Kamikawa, Japan this summer, she greeted me with a freshly-made shogayaki sando in her farmhouse kitchen. It’s [...]

We have reached day 12, the final day of the 12 Days of Endive! I hope you’ve learned a bit about this amazing versatile vegetable, but what I hope even more than that is that you start buying it and using it! To celebrate day 12 I’m sharing an edamame salad I made a few [...]

Turkey avocado onigiri (Japanese rice balls) made to look like little footballs. “Why” you may ask? For the Super Bowl of course! The newest episode of the Miso Hungry podcast, that will be up later today, is all about food eaten at Japanese sporting events and how this might translate to your Super Bowl party—specifically [...]

Hello day 10 of the 12 Days of Endive! A big pot of turkey meatball and endive coconut curry recently made it’s way to the dinner table at our house. We love curries in the Fuji household, and it’s unusual for us to have a week where some type of curry isn’t eaten. It doesn’t [...]

It’s day 9 of the 12 Days of Endive! Whether you call it California endive, Belgian endive, Brussels endive, French endive, endive, or witlof, these names are all synonymous for Cichorium endivia, the vegetable that I’ve been celebrating. Whatever you call it, endive is rich in vitamins and minerals, especially folate, vitamins A and K, and [...]

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