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Varmint, I was thinking about your non-diet yesterday as I was preparing a very typical Japanese meal for dinner, many Asian salad style dishes are made with no oil. Larb being one example as well as the Japanese aemono and sunomono dishes. They are contain almost no carbs so are good for those on a low carb diet. I wonder why these kind of dishes aren't showcased more in "diets"? For some good ideas check out the Japan board!

I often dream about food both good and bad, but recently I have been dreaming more about egullet! I guess I need to check back into the addictions thread! My biggest food nightmare was one where i was trapped in a room with hundreds of life size jars of mayo and mustard, it was like a maze and i had to find my way out, but I couldn't. I had this dream when I was 12 and I still can't forget it!

We were not given an Indian name, it was just called cheese curry in English. We frst made some cheese with rice wine vinegar and whole milk (this took about 5 minutes!) I was so surprised at how easy this was, I had always looked at cheese recipes it seemed like they took forever to make. Then we made the "curry" with onions, tomato, ginger and garlic paste and the spices (paprika, tumeric, cayenne, and salt). at the end we added the cheese, some milk and the kasuri methi and garam masala. It was really good! and the whole thing took only about 15 minutes from start to finish, including making the cheese!

Thursday dinner: salmon collar (kama) with teriyaki glaze (the collar thread: http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?act=ST...T&f=19&t=16971& ) pan roasted potatoes tossed with a kojuchang sauce and topped with lots of shiso from the garden cabbage and wakame sunomono with lots of ginger tomato slices sprinkled with Maldon sea salt homemade red wine rakkyo Japanese rice

Just had it less then a week ago! the durian thread: http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?act=ST...=8941&hl=durian

word for 5/26: 割り箸 waribashi (wah-ree-bah-shee) 菜箸　さいばし　saibashi (sah-ee-bah-shee) waribashi are the disposable wooden chopsticks that you get in most restaurants (wari from the verb waru meaning to break apart) saibashi are the long chopsticks that are used for cooking

I found some nice pictures of modern day yoshoku: http://www.tepore.com/homechef/me_wa_se/index.htm all in Japanese but nice pictures!

I doubt these type of restaurants are considered yoshoku. Yoshoku has the image of very cheap homestyle type meals, nothing really fancy. Nobu I think falls under washoku (Japanese) and the other I have never heard of so I am not sure.

Yoshoku, used today I think is quite different from about a hundred years ago or so when I am assuming it was first put into use. If you look at older cookbooks there are usually 3 divisions Japanese, Western and Chinese, as theses were the 3 major types of cuisine eaten in Japan. A lot of the original yoshoku was Western foods adapted to Japanese taste or to use ingredients easily food in Japan, this is were we see the curry rice, corroke, omu-raisu, hamburger patty, etc. Nowadays, it seems to be be just more of a broad category that covers non-Asian foods, here is how one restaurant finding guide categorizes it (click on European) to see the list: http://www.gnavi.co.jp/kanto/jokex07.htm

I too have not been to many robatayaki, those I did go to were about 13 or 14 years ago when i was new to Tokyo and so I can't remember any names, just that they were in Roppongi and Shibuya! Yakitori is just that, just yakitori, while robatayaki will grill anything, absolutely anything. Ok Smallworld, let's leave the husbands at home and try out Inaka-ya! It will be much cheaper that way! Maybe BON could join us, BON are you out there?

sorry! mikan is the Japanese word for mandarin oranges

In an indian cooking class I attended today we used a spice called kasuri methi in a cheese curry dish. I thought I was quite familiar with Indian spices but had never heard of this before. It was a very green color and in powder form. It was added to the curry at the very end of cooking with the garam masala. What is it and what other types of dishes is it used in. I also had my first experience with black cardamom, wonderful, wonderful stuff!

My cupboards are completely bare! 2 1/2 lemons 4 tomatoes (they are a fruit, right?) pineapple, mikan, and yellow peaches (in cans! ) I will come back in a couple days after I go shopping!

Tokyo/Yokohama Moti 4 locations in Tokyo and 2 in Yokohama Northern India homestyle cooking http://r.gnavi.co.jp/g247000/ Japanese only Yokohama Raani http://raani.org/ some English/mostly Japanese A group of friends and I just had a cooking class with the owner Hari Om today. Really, really great stuff!

robatayaki are really a lot of fun. The main foods consist of basically anything on a stick that can be grilled, though some places offer homestyle type dishes as well. The more famous places really put on shows and they can be similar to the teppanyaki style Japanese restaurants in the US, but with grills. Here is a good description: http://www.tastingmenu.com/archive/2002/11...11-november.htm scroll down to Nov 23 and welcome to egullet!

When I need a chocolate fix and don't want to go to the store I make the All in the pan chocolate cake from Regan Daley's In the Sweet Kitchen. No eggs, milk or butter. Upon closer inspection I see that it is exactly the same recipe as the crazy cake. Go for it, is a great cake, my kids love it!

I have eaten alot of greeen tea ice cream both in the US and Japan, there can be as much variation as there is with chocolate in the US. So the one that tastee like pistachio, if it wasn't actually pistachio, could have been a very toned down version for the American palate?

Weds dinner: another rushed day so very simple: tortillas filled with pork tenderloin rubbed with ancho-cumin rub and roasted black bean re-fried beans (from Mark Bittman though he uses kidney) baby spinach leaves pico de gallo jalapenos dessert: chocolate and coconut truffles made by Mia and Julia at their English class

I just picked up this book at Costco about 3 weeks ago, and have yet to try it. I know what you mean about Ming! But then again I have this thing for Asian guys!

word for 5/15: 箸　　はし hashi (hah-shee) chopsticks, most of you probably know this word but do you know all of these?: http://www.anasuper.com/timeout/HashiManners.asp and for those of you who have not quite mastered the art of using the chopsticks フォークをください fou-ku wo kudasai (fo-koo wo koo-dah-sah-ee) Fork, please!

No rice buns, just regular buns! Here is their menu: http://www.freshnessburger.co.jp/ just click on the hamburger (menu) at the bottom, the menu is all in English. Their negi-miso burger is great, as is the salsa burger, I also love the lemonade and the lemon-cranberry soda

There was this interesting thead on the same thing a little while back: http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?act=ST...t=3515&hl=salsa

Thank you very much for taking the time to come and chat with us here at egullet! I am curious about how and when you decided this what you wanted to do for a living. Did you grow up as a picky child or one who ate everything? Did your love of food come about at an early age or not until later in life? Why writing over teaching or restarant work? Whenever I read your books or columns, I am amazed by your depth of knowledge on various topics, where does the inspiration for your topics come from? It is a lot of questions I realize, sorry!

Tuesday dinner: very rushed penne with raw tomato sauce , tuna (canned) and lots of fresh basil mixed with EVOO, a splash of balsamic and salt and pepper dessert: ice cream

we are going to leave the adjectives alone for a moment and talk about hamburgers, two new threads today got me thinking about this. So for 5/14 we will discuss the difference between ハンバーグ　hambaagu (hahm-bah-goo) ハンバーガー hambaagaa (hahm-baah-gaah) hambaagu is a hamburger patty usually made with onions, bread crumbs, eggs, liguids, etc it is served steak style with no bun. At most restaurants in Japan this will be the only hamburger on the menu. You usually have a choice of a multitude of sauces to top it with. hambaagaa is a good old hamburger with a bun, in Japan these are usually only available at fast food restarants. Not even Denny's or Big Boy offer them (though they are available at places like Hard Rock cafe and Friday's). So when you are trying to order a hamburger pay special attention to that last syllable or you could find yourself with the wrong dish!