Making your own sesame buns sounds really intimidating. But, my girlfriend Winnie has simplified it to an art! This filling has only two ingredients, well, three if you count the salt. Daikon or Japanese radish and green onions. That’s all! She used frozen pastry sheets and it was a breeze to make. Don’t believe me? …
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, …
In Asian cuisine, sesame seeds and sesame oil are very important condiments. In fact, today, Japan and China are the two largest importers of sesame products. The nutty, slightly sweet seed is not only savored for its flavor but is a very good source of minerals that include copper, manganese, magnesium, calcium, iron, phosphorus, vitamin B1, selenium, and …
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 …
Kinpira gobo is an everyday classic Japanese side dish, that will often be included in an obento, a lunch box. Since moving back to the U.S., I realized that looking for ingredients is part of the battle to enjoying foods you grew up with. If you can’t find gobo, just use all carrots. What is …
