I wonder if you have seen such a color as soft and chewy as Mitarashi amber. The golden glaze is made of soy sauce and sugar, and it covers the pearl-like sticky rice cake as known as "dango", in Japanese. This is Mitarashi Dango, and all Japanese grew up with Mitarashi Dango, especially around 3 peckish o'clock in the afternoon. I remember I was always fascinated by its color; I used to raise it up before even thinking about eating, and gazed at it for the longest moment. Perhaps it was the … [Read more...]
Choco-Banana Rilakkuma Toast
This week I purchased a western food called "Nutella" for the first time in my life. I'm aware that Nutella is a wildly common food throughout the US and Europe, but not in Japan. I lived in the states for seven years, yet I promised myself never to lose my Bushido (the way of a samurai) and cooked Japanese food almost every day. I never even touched any American ingredients when I went shopping at the grocery stores. Looking back, it was almost madness; it was as if I was afraid of becoming … [Read more...]
Rilakkuma Scrambled Eggs
Most young kids will run after mom if she tries to leave them alone with a stranger. But according to a study, kids who haven't bonded well with their mothers—psychologists call it "insecurely attached"—will rather stay behind with a security blanket. And in my case, it was always stuffed animals. They say kids with secure attachments to their mothers were more or less likely to have a security blanket, because they simply don't need a security blanket to fill their void. But what about the … [Read more...]
Rilakkuma Burger
For the past couple of years, I've been on a quest for making the perfect veggie burgers. It's been a quite mission to create the burgers that have everything that we need. But I think I'm finally comfortable enough to announce to the world that I've reached my goal today. My veggie burgers have finally hit my high standard, and I'm super excited to share this with you. In this one, I'm showing you how to make the veggie burgers with a Rilakkua, for the sake of Yukitchen.com. But if you are … [Read more...]