dashi

Japanese Egg Crêpes (Usuyaki Tamago) & Shredded Egg Crêpes (Kinshi Tamago)

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I have to apologize now, but I’m going to be a bit of a tease today.  I’m going to teach you how to make usuyaki tamago (Japanese egg crêpes) and kinshi tamago (shredded egg crêpes) because we are going to need them for our next dish.  However, I’m not going to tell you what that [...]

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White Fish Miso Soup

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Today being the last day of the Miso Soup series, I’d like to now broaden your “miso horizons” by giving you more options when it comes to what goes into your miso soup.  Really, anything you feel like putting in your soup can be thrown in, but I will give you some ideas to help [...]

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How To Make Basic Tofu & Wakame Miso Soup

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So now we’ve talked about miso soup and we’ve learned to make dashi.  As I said in my last post, making miso soup consists of 3 steps: 1) Making dashi. 2) Cooking the vegetables, fish, and other ingredients in the dashi. 3) Adding the miso just before serving. Today we’re going to focus on steps [...]

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Power Breakfast–Vegetable Miso Soup

As Squirrel gets older, and is eating less and less baby food and more and more "regular" food, I have begun to worry more about the things that I am cooking for us to eat every day. For a while now Squirrel has been eating a bowl of oatmeal every morning for breakfast (she likes [...]

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