Category Archives: Japanese

Japanese Eating Class at Ajisai Sushi Bar

In our ‘eating’ course we went to Ajisai Sushi Bar for a traditional sushi menu, and had amazing fruit sushi, traditional sushi, spectacular flying fish sushi and pressed sushi. Continue reading

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Japanese Home-Cooking Class #2 at UBC Cont. Studies

This class contained introductions to even more Japanese ingredients that I had never heard of. We started with miso soup with little beech mushrooms, and then began prepping the salads and the main course of mackerel, nimono and rice. Polished … Continue reading

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Japanese Home Cooking Class # 1, UBC Cont. Studies

Our class started with an introduction to a bewildering array of difficult-to-pronounce ingredients, most of which were to be used in the class recipes. We were to start with two different noodle ‘soups’, one hot, one cold. The udon noodle soup … Continue reading

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A ‘roll your own’ sushi party!

Here is a fun ‘interactive’ party; you set out the ingredients, the guests ‘roll their own’ cone sushi. The ingredients: NORI – large flat sheets of seaweed cut into ~ 4 inch squares SUSHI RICE – Japanese white rice (the … Continue reading

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