Japanese food

In Japan, we eat white steam rice every day, oh yes, every meal in many family. A bowl of rice (the most important meal for us), a bowl of soup, a main dish and two side dishes; this combination is our basic style.

To eat rice, the main dish is a slightly salty but not big amount.
Side dishes may be different taste and texture.
Usually we take a Miso soup, but sometimes a Sumashi-jiru, soy source taste, too.


We also like noodles. Our most favorite noodle is a Ramen. But it is quite different from thing from ones you can buy in the grocery. As it is very difficult to prepare perfectly, so I gave up to eat it here.
We eat Udon and Somen much more frequently. There are many various recipes in every family. It may be fun to collect them.


In long history, Japanese have absorbed new food and new taste form many country and area of whole world, mixed with our traditional style and made up new dishes. Curry with rice is good example: Curry is India origin and passed to England in the colonial era, and introduced in Japan. Japanese curry is completely different food of Indians. Which is better? I don't know. I like both, as different things.


Anyway, I will show some not-traditional food. They may be non-bordered food. But I think they are arranged by Japanese for Japanese and sometimes makes us feel our home country.

About me

I am a Japanese mother living in Durham, NC with my sweety and two children, and temporaly two crikets.

I have been in the US for 8 years and this life has been a sort of survival, especially in language and food. We have some Oriental markets in this area and we can buy many Japanese food. But sometimes they are expensive. So, I have had to try to make up our coutry food with more familier staffs in local groceries. Fortunately, in these days it is easy to find basic seasonings and sorces of Japanese food in the oriental food shelves in any grocery, at least in this area.

In this blog, I will write some Japanese recipe which I use in daily and which my friends tell me.