Chicken Chashu

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Chashu is the Japanese version of Chinese Char Siu. Unlike its grilled Chinese counterpart, the Japanese version is typically made by rolling pork belly into a log and braising it until tender. It’s then unbound and sliced before being used to garnish bowls of ramen. When served on hot rice, or over a bowl of [...]

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Build a Seafood Stew

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It goes by many names: Bouillabaisse (French), Cioppino (American), Aldeirada (Portuguese), Maeuntang (Korean), Caldo de Mariscos (Mexican), Kakavia (Greek), but anywhere there’s an ocean and people who fish it, there’s almost certainly a local seafood stew. In many cases, it’s a dish that was created by fishermen trying to use up the unsold remnants of [...]

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Perfect Pavlova

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With a crispy meringue shell surrounding a sweet marshmallow center, a rich cream filling and a mountain of fresh seasonal fruit, Pavlovas are graceful, yet utterly intoxicating. Fitting, if you consider the fact that the eponymous dessert was named after the famed Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova during a visit to Australia or New Zealand. I [...]

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Tebasaki (Japanese Fried Chicken)

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Tebasaki(手羽先) literally translates to “wing tips” and refers to the cut of chicken as well as to a dish popular in izakayas around the city of Nagoya. Unlike the other Japanese fried chicken, Tebasaki is always made with bone-in chicken wings, has little to no breading, and is seasoned after it’s fried. Despite the absence [...]

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New and Improved

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One of the things I love about working for myself is that I don’t need to get anyones approval to move forward with a new idea. The challenge of course is that I have a million ideas and only 24 hours in a day to implement them. During the small crevices of time I have [...]

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Strawberry Crisp

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Crisps are one of my favorite summertime desserts. Not only are they simple to make, they’re a great way to use up a lot of fruit, whether you get it in a CSA basket or spent a day picking berries. It’s also my favorite among the family of similar desserts such as cobblers, crumbles, buckles, [...]

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Beef Teriyaki

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Unlike its sibling chicken teriyaki, you won’t see beef teriyaki much in Japan. Like the California Roll, it was likely cooked up by a clever chef in the US trying to lure in more American patrons. In Japan, teriyaki sauce has a longstanding monogamous relationship with chicken (except perhaps the occasional fling with yellowtail). If [...]

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Homemade Vanilla Extract

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On my trip to Bali late last year, I picked up a bundle of a few dozen vanilla beans for about $5 USD. If you’ve ever dropped a Hamilton on a jar holding a lonesome vanilla bean, you can probably imagine how excited I was about my find. Delighted with the luxury of being able [...]

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