As we featured a couple matcha recipes, here is one more way that you can use your matcha: Tofu Matcha Smoothie. Since matcha is fresh steamed and dried green tea leaves it has a very high content of chlorophyll. This makes it super alkaline and helps your body detoxify. Add tofu to the mix and you …
Last week I posted matcha cookies, today is a rice cake. Matcha is a very fine green tea powder that is used for Japanese tea ceremony. With a very distinctive fresh clean taste, today matcha is enjoyed in ice-cream, desserts, chocolate, lattes and many other delicacies. My favorite is the matcha ice cream. The other …
Matcha is a powdered Japanese green tea made from very young leaves. This gives it a very vivid green color and clean taste. When combined with butter, matcha makes a savory buttery cookie with a hint of bitterness yet very flavorful. The Japanese have a wonderful recipe exchange website called Cookpad, that my Japanese girlfriend turned me on …
Japanese sandwiches are typically made with thinly sliced white bread. Japanese style white bread is a little different from American white bread. With a hint of butter and a slight sweetness, Japanese white bread is fluffy and elastic with a chewy texture. Also because the sandwich was an imported concept, they have no preconceived ideas on what a sandwich filling should …
Summertime often calls for large gatherings with friends. This simple slightly sweet salad includes sesame seeds and almonds giving it a savory nutty flavor. It’s is a good dish to bring to any barbeque. Because it’s so easy to make, it’s one of our family staples throughout the year too! Here are the four basic ingredients: cabbage, …
This simple, refreshing vegetarian salad with a soy sauce based dressing has a wonderful crunch from the Japanese daikon or radish. This can also be substituted with Korean radish. Just use whatever looks the most fresh. On the day I was shopping at my local Asian supermarket, the Korean radish was hard and fresh, while the Japanese daikon was soft and limp. …
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This is the continuation of my attempt to video blog, or vlogging! In my previous life, or should I say my life before kids, I did a lot of T.V. and video work. So, I’m trying to dig up those skills and the hope is to share a little bit of Asian culture. not only to the …
Feeling a bit tired or need a protein boost? These little chocolate protein bites uses tofu as the vegetable protein. If you eat protein bars, you will have a good idea what this will taste like. It has that soy flavor, that is commonly used in those energy bars. Now, if you don’t like tofu, …
I love anything sesame, from the sesame seeds with peanuts sweets, sesame dressing, sesame oil, the Chinese sesame balls with bean paste, and tahini, the Middle Eastern ingredient. If it has sesame in it, I’m bound to love it. In Japanese sesame is goma and it is heavily used in many dishes. Apparently Japan is …
In the U.S., nowadays you can find a fast food teriyaki chicken stand in most towns. Teriyaki has become so common that they even sell the sauce at Costco. On the supermarket shelves, there are a variety of teriyaki sauces that make our lives easier for their convenience and good taste. But, because I …
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The Japanese have a variety of mixed rice recipes. Some are called maze gohan and some are called takikomi gohan. So, I asked my teacher, “what’s the difference?” Maze gohan is when the rice is already cooked and you add ingredients to it, while takikomi gohan is when the ingredients are cooked with the rice …
Okra is not a Japanese vegetable, but being married to a Brit, I do enjoy an okra curry. That being said, we do eat okra in Japan. This is a quick and easy side dish, that doesn’t really require cooking. Just zap it in the microwave and your done. The only thing is, it requires …
Do you love sushi? Have you tried to make it at home? Why not make the sushi ginger, gari, at home! With the increased popularity of sushi, many are stepping up to the challenge to make sushi at home. It’s easy to make the pickled ginger that accompanies sushi, called gari, as well. Gari is …
As with any classic recipe there are many different versions of the same dish. Here on Asian Lifestyle Design, I previously posted my recipe for Chicken Teriyaki Wings! Please check this one out too, the difference is in the garlic. This teriyaki recipe was given to me by Fumiko and she broke it down so …
Last week during qi gong class, Dr. Wang, an acupuncturist and herbalist, gave a discussion on eyes. Over the last five years or so, there has been a noticeable deterioration of my eyesight. This is probably due to age, as well as the more frequent use of staring at a monitor. Our lifestyles today have …
Sometimes we need comfort food. For me, this is so simple yet satisfying to eat over a bowl of rice. Stewed pork in shoyu can be considered either Japanese or Chinese, but who cares if it just tastes good! Right? The ingredients are easy to get anywhere because there is nothing fancy in it. If …
