Anna N

Well that certainly brought a smile to my face. Thanks very much for answering my questions.

Yes I had my suspicions!

Beef gyudon. One of the easiest and one of my favourite Japanese comfort foods. Beef and onion cooked in a well-flavoured dashi broth over steamed rice.

I just know this is going to come out wrong so I trust you to read between the lines because I am not just being a smart ass. I don’t like tea as a drink. I don’t care if it’s black, green, red, iced. But it is often the case that an ingredient used in a different way can appeal even to a “hater”. What is the likelihood that I might like the smoked duck or the shrimp? I’m not asking you to get inside my head only to tell me if there is a marked change. Oh, nevermind. I’ll just have to find out for myself. Still, I’d like to see your response. Perhaps you even know someone who dislikes tea as a drink.....

Quite the coincidence. I just ran across this restaurant name very close to where @Kerry Beal and I hang out and had asked her before reading this if we could check it out at some point. No idea if it is part of the same chain or not.

Other way around. 😂

Perhaps if you told is why you need such accuracy in an oven we might be better equipped to help you out.

I would promise to be there in time for dinner but given the snow here and temperatures in the very minuses and the snow there it doesn’t seem very likely that I’ll make it in time. Darn.

I did the same thing but with my eyes wide open. I loved her first book, which I got on sale, so much I didn’t mind paying for the second one.

Perhaps more brunch than lunch since it’s already after noon. But like @JoNorvelleWalker, above, I rarely respect time zones or meals times. Mixed rice onigri with sugar snaps, tamagoyaki with Serrano ham, cherry tomato, and slow cooked onions and sweet peppers.

Thank you as always for taking the time to do this. I was initially underwhelmed with Bento Power. Some of it Is personal bias against anything purporting to be “power” food or “health” food. I consider most food to be both powerful and healthy. I also consider a well packed Bento to be healthy enough without quinoa, millet or hemp. But a second look suggests there might be one or two ideas worth pursuing. Without you I might not have even given it a second look. Dammit. Thanks to Amazon I can look back and see that I paid almost $19 For the Kindle edition. I think I might feel better about it at $.99.

Mixed rice, tamagoyaki with nori, cherry tomato and kimchi. I was given one of these and finally managed to get the ridge pattern on my rolled omelet.

I’m sorry. They were things happening in my life at the time and I did not get a photograph. I will mend my ways in future.

I am so with you there. Was fed too many horrible versions of it when my children were younger and we were invited to various potlucks. But your corn sticks do indeed look delicious.

Thank you. Yes we are aware of it. It is on our must-visit list.

I am not sure what you are asking. After it came out of the Sous Vide bath, 54.5° for two hours, I iced it down and put it in the refrigerator. A couple of days later I re-thermed it for a very short time, seared it and ate it.

Just like a child, I am always anxious to play with my new toys. I documented this Bento box on another thread. I think it’s possible to judge from the other items in the photograph just how small this box is. It actually has a 560 mL capacity. In keeping with the Japanese rule of thumb that 500 mL of a balanced meal will be in the range of 500 cal, this little box does just fine. I sliced up 2 pieces of the Korean pancakes from lunch at a restaurant yesterday and briefly reheated them. I made up a dipping sauce and tossed together a small salad. A very satisfactory lunch. It would’ve gone nicely with some sake but that slipped my mind until just now.

They do look damn good. But I am still resisting.

Phew! Hate to lose ya.

I have usually 2 to 3 types on hand. I am no expert on miso and I don’t pretend to be. At the moment in my refrigerator is awase, the one I use most frequently, hatcho (mame) and shiro.

Niratama donburi. Basically an omelet with garlic chives over rice. The eggs are cooked in an abundance of oil at a high temperature. This is almost the same as a Thai omelette.

I thought that’s what she said she had done.

Been there. Done that.

The coloured strips are velcro ties. The blue tubs are not really blue that is something to do with the lighting. They are rectangular stainless steel containers with plastic lids. This Is the post that put me into a mood to envy these! I waited a long time to get them! Unfortunately the link no longer works in that post. There is something very similar on Amazon.com that includes the small wire rack. I had them on my wish list for the longest time but they were about $30 for three of them. The tray is just that — a tray. I was hoping that it was a baking tray but it warns against using it in the oven. It will be a useful prep tray. Triangular thing is a rice mould for making onigiri. You can fill it with rice, freeze it and then nuke when you are ready to use it.

On a recent trip to the Burnhanthorpe (Asian) area of Mississauga, Kerry spotted this place. We were back in the same area today and as we were heading to our Ramen spot Kerry suggested we check out this Korean place instead. I’m so glad we did. Kerry had tea which was served in an insulated stainless steel cup (missed getting a photo but they were quite attractive). I had warm sake. Kimchi pancake with its accompanying harem of banchan. Seafood pancake. Close-ups of the banchan. A bowl of soup for each of us. Some wonderfully crispy shrimp and vegetable tempura. Throughout our lunch steaming bowls of this, that and the other passed our table. I am sure we will be in for a return visit. I was facing a very large TV which was playing some Korean program which I am sure brought a little too much colour to my cheeks! Sheesh. I say it all in good fun but it definitely was nothing I’ve seen on North American TV. But the nice thing about it was the lack of any loud background music or even anything from the TV. Just the sound of other peoples conversations surrounded us so that we were able to have an excellent conversation of our own. Just as an aside, as I flipped through the well-illustrated menu I was struck by how many Korean dishes might have been mistaken for Japanese dishes. The food cultures seem to have so many things in common. Will need to hit the history books over the next few weeks. Edited to fix Kerry “had to see” to Kerry “had tea”, even though everyone knows Kerry always has tea.