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how to prepare shrimp for sushi

March 6, 2010 basics
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As I wrote in a previous post, I made sushi on Valentine’s day. I usually just use salmon and tuna for sushi, but since we were watching District 9, we decided to have shrimp (because they looks like “prawns” ) as well. Shrimp is probably easier to get than a good block of  salmon and tuna sashimi, and it is also very easy to prepare [...]

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how to make sushi rice

March 6, 2010 basics
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When I posted about our “sushi night” on my blog before, I mentioned about “Sushi-noko” which was like powdered vinegar to make sushi rice. This time I decided to make sushi rice from scratch with ingredients you can easily get at a regular supermarket. Actually, it’s really not hard to make sushi rice, but the recipe requires you to work really fast. I don’t usually [...]

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non-bento #20 & How to make Slime Marshmallows

December 20, 2009 Baking
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My company does a potluck for its Christmas party. It’s fun that you get to taste the dishes cooked by people you know. This year, one of my friends/graphic designer at the company decided to make a recipe book of everyone’s potluck food. I thought of making Totoro cream puffs, Domo-kun chocolate covered marshmallows, but I wanted to make new kyara-sweets. (Kyara-sweets mean “Character themed [...]

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Momofuku’s Bossam

December 16, 2009 basics
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Christmas is coming! So I decided to do a post about what I did for Thanksgiving before it’s way too late. Since I couldn’t get in touch with my cat sitter this Thanksgiving I stayed at home while my boyfriend was back home in Boston. One night I couldn’t sleep so I was watching non-stop NY at around 4 in the morning. (I don’t have cable) [...]

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How to make Max

October 17, 2009 characters
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[How to make Max from Where the Wild Things Are] (without the crown) – rice – ham (or bologna, turkey, etc…) – sliced cheddar cheese – seaweed – cupcake cup (I used foil cupcake cups, but if you need to microwave your food, use a paper cupcake cup instead. I’ve tried it, and the paper cup handled the moisture pretty well.) – hole punch – [...]

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