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Kimchi Yakisoba (Japanese stir-fried noodles with kimchi sauce)

*This post is brought to you in partnership with Nasoya. I’m a huge fan of fermented vegetables, whether it be dill pickles, sauerkraut, Japanese tsukemono, or Korean kimchi. Since going plant-based, I have had less to choose from in the kimchi department. The classic kimchi recipe includes some sort of salted seafood or fish sauce. […]

During the summer in Japan when the weather is hot and humid, you will see lots of chilled dishes on menus. One of those dishes is chilled noodles served with a variety of toppings.

I had a bit of an epiphany recently. I have said for years that my favorite food was sushi. But when I was making a batch of onigiri for the kids last month I realized that although I do love sushi, there is another food that is my true favorite—onigiri. The first thing I ate […]

When I studied abroad in Paris, the mom of the family that I lived with made a simple lunch of spaghetti sauced with ketchup on several occasions. The first time when I sat down to a bowl of it I think my eyebrows were somewhere up in my hairline. Ketchup had never been anything more […]

Chicken noodle soup has been an important part of Mr. Fuji and my collective family history since we were little. About a year after I began eating a plant-based diet, Mr. Fuji started throwing out little hints that he would love it if I veganized our chicken noodle soup recipe. I let some ideas bounce […]

We are huge dumpling lovers at our house, so my recipe for gyoza (Japanese dumplings) has been on my list to veganize for quite a long time now. Gyoza was one of the first Japanese dishes I learned to cook from my sweet neighbor, Miki, in her kitchen in Yokohama, Japan, 16 1/2 years ago, […]

In January, on an Instagram post, I asked what peoples’ favorite Japanese dishes were. It was really fun to see the responses. One of the responses was from @sandrajapandra who said that saba no misoni was her favorite. Saba no misoni is a very traditional Japanese fish dish of mackerel that is simmered in a […]

*Disclosure: This post contains Amazon affiliate links that earn me a small commission, at no additional cost to you. I only recommend products I personally use and love, or think my readers will find useful. I have been finding some pretty strange things in the trash lately: silverware, cups, a My Little Pony, some magnets […]

*Disclosure: This post contains Amazon affiliate links that earn me a small commission, at no additional cost to you. I only recommend products I personally use and love, or think my readers will find useful. Today is my 12th blogiversary. It’s hard to believe that I’ve been doing this for that long! When I started my […]

I’ve already extolled the virtues of mapo tofu in the recent past, but did you know that there are variations on mapo tofu? Although my favorite will always be the classic mapo tofu, the version made with eggplant, called mapo nasu, is seriously delicious! Eggplant replaces the tofu in this version of the Japanified Chinese […]

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