Life and the kitchen. Everyday meals. My dog’s 6th birthday.
Meal Vlog 142: Cooking for Two 🍽️
Here are the simple recipes! 🍂
① Rice Cooked with Taro and Fresh Ginger
Rice: 2 cups (go)
White dashi (shiro-dashi): 1 tbsp
Sake: 1 tbsp
Soy sauce: 1 tsp
Taro: 2–3
Fresh ginger: 1 knob
Water: As needed
② Glass Noodle Salad (Harusame Salad)
Glass noodles (harusame): 30g
Cucumber: 1 (rubbed with salt)
Egg: 1 (mixed with 1/2 tsp sugar and a pinch of salt)
Crab-flavored fish sticks (kanikama): 2–3
Steamed chicken: As desired
Sugar: 1.5 tbsp
Soy sauce: 1.5 tbsp
Vinegar: 3 tbsp
Chicken bouillon powder (torigara-moto): 1/2 tsp
Sesame oil: 1 tbsp
③ Mizutaki (Chicken Hot Pot)
Chicken carcass/bones (for stock): 1 pack or more
Water: 2500ml
Sake: 2 tbspSalt 1 tsp
Sake 2 tbsp
Chicken wings As desired
Chicken thigh meat As desired
Shiitake mushrooms As desired
Enoki mushrooms As desired
Shungiku (chrysanthemum greens) As desired
④ Shrimp Cutlets with Aurora Sauce
Shrimp 10
Salt A pinch
Rice flour A small amount
Egg 1
Rice flour 3 tbsp
Water 1.5 tbsp
Breadcrumbs Flour (as needed)
Ketchup: 2 tbsp
Mayonnaise: 4 tbsp
Lemon juice: 1 tsp
⑤ Sweet Potato, Mushroom, and Chicken Stew
Sweet potato: 1/2
Onion: 1/2
Shimeji mushrooms: 1 bag
Mushrooms (button/common): 1 pack
Chicken: 1/3 of a piece (cut/fillet)
Butter: 10g
Water: 300mlKayanoya Vegetable Dashi (stock powder) – 1 packet
(or 1 tbsp consommé)
Milk – 100 ml
⑥ Apple, Almond, and Baby Leaf Salad
Baby greens (mixed salad greens) – as desired
Apple – 1/2
Almonds – as desired
(Apple Dressing)
Grated apple – 2–3 tbsp
Lemon juice – 2 tbsp
Honey – 2/3 tbsp
Soy sauce – 1/2 tbsp
Salt – a pinch
Olive oil – 1 tsp
⑦ Daikon Radish Leaf and Hijiki Seaweed Furikake (seasoning topping)
Dried hijiki seaweed – 15 g
Daikon radish (leaves) Radish greens (from 3–4 radishes)
Sesame oil, as needed
Sugar: 2 tbsp
Sake: 2 tbsp
Mirin: 2 tbsp
Soy sauce: 1 tbsp
Japanese-style dashi (stock powder/granules): 1 tsp
Sliced chili pepper: a small amount
Dried baby sardines (*chirimen jako*): 2 tbsp
Ground sesame seeds: 2 tbsp
⑧ Salt-seasoned peanut sprouts (*namul*)
Peanut sprouts: 1 pack
Sesame oil: 2 tsp
Garlic: 1/3 tsp
Salt: 2 pinches (or to taste)
⑨ Simmered sea bream
Sea bream: 2 fillets
Water: 100 ml
Sake: 50 mlMirin: 100 ml
Sugar: 1.5 tbsp
Soy sauce: 3 tbsp
Ginger: 1 knob
⑩ Ginger-Miso Soup with Taro and Chicken Meatballs
(Chicken Meatballs)
Ground chicken breast: 200 g
Egg: 1 small
Ginger: 2 tsp
Potato starch (katakuriko): 1 tsp
Salt: 1 pinch
Miso: 1/2 tsp
Water: 600 ml
Japanese-style dashi stock packet: 1
Miso: 1 tbsp
Cabbage: approx. 2 leaves
Taro: 2
Scallions (small green onions): to taste