I was a very busy mother when my children were young, and dinner needed to be quick & easy to prepare, and nutritious. This life-saving dish is so easy to prepare and my children loved it always. I used to cook it very often. Today I cooked it just for…
If you are living on a tight budget and trying to save money for food, check ‘Very Versatile Cooked Mince & Onion’ page. If you had the already cooked Beef Mince and Onion, this dish is quick and easy to prepare. If you don’t have it, just cook Beef Mince…
If you are living on a tight budget and trying to save money for food, check ‘Very Versatile Cooked Mince & Onion’ page. Using 1 serving of it, Spaghetti Bolognese can be made quickly and easily, and it won’t cost you much. If you want to cook a larger amount of Bolognese…
Using 1 serving of the cost-saving ‘Very Versatile Cooked Mince & Onion’, and if you have some veggies and Gochujang (Korean Spicy Miso), you can cook this delicious dish quickly and easily. You don’t need to spend a lot of money at a restaurant, enjoy something different today. By the…
Today I cooked this rice bowl to use up leftover Pork Mince. I usually use Garlic Chives for this dish, but Garlic Chives are not easy to find where I live. Spring Onion is an easy substitute. A quick and easy meal, that is delicious, nutritious, inexpensive, and very comforting.…
This is another quick and easy dish that you can cook with the cost-saving ‘Very Versatile Cooked Mince & Onion’. If you don’t have it, just cook Minced Meat and Onion with other vegetables that you have in hand. Japanese Curry Roux can be used to cook this dish if…
This is basically the same recipe as my ‘Easy Focaccia’. Today I halved the recipe to cook it in a frying pan. Even though you don’t have an oven, you can entertain your friends and gruests with a home-made Focaccia. My frying pan is 26cm in diameter. Please use similar…
I stock a bag of thinly sliced and seasoned Kombu (Kelp), that is called ‘Shio Kombu’ (塩昆布) in Japanese, and I use it for cooking as a seasoning. It creates a lovely flavour to vegetable dishes. Today I made this dish of Choy Sum. Easy and delicious. Makes 3 to…
One of my family’s favourite dishes is ‘Stir-fried Tomato & Egg’. Today I added Prawns to it and made this rice bowl for my lunch. I wanted to eat something spicy, so I added Chilli Flakes. I was afraid I added too much but it was quite enjoyable. As I…
A delicious chocolate flavoured spread can be made using Canned Butter Beans and you can find the recipe here, but you need to add Sugar to make it. This Date Spread doesn’t require Sugar at all. You only need 3 ingredients, Dates, Milk and Cocoa Powder. Makes About 250g Ingredients…
If you love Gyoza, you must have your favourite way to cook them. I cook them using the traditional method of steam-frying with some water, but lately I have been cooking them with Tomato. This method is simple. Arrange everything in a non-stick frying pan, and cook until Gyoza is…
This is a quick and easy dish that is perfect to enjoy on a hot day. You probably don’t want to cook anything, but just be patient and cook Spaghetti, OR other thin long Pasta. Other than that, you don’t need to cook anything. It’s cool and refreshing, and nutritious.…
I had been making ‘Super Easy Canned Sardines Rice Bowl’ for many years before I realised that I had never made it with canned Mackerel, even though Mackerel is my favourite fish. So, I tried to make it with canned Mackerel, and I absolutely loved it. Much better than Sardine…
This popular dish is called ‘Hayashi Rice’ in Japan, and it is often cooked using store-bought roux, just like Japanese curries. However, I never enjoyed it, even when I was a young child, because the dish is quite sweet. I cook it in the similar way to cook Beef Stroganoff.…
Steam-frying in a frying pan is the easiest and best method to cook Broccoli. Then, I started to cook Green Beans in the same way. I have been loving this Green Been dish so much, and I cook it very often. Today I seasoned with Salt & Black Pepper, but…
This dish is called ‘Oroshi-ni’ (おろし煮) in Japan, and a variety of fish can be used. My absolute favourite is Mackerel, but Salmon is also nice. You may prefer white fish such as Cod. If you don’t want to deep-fry Fish, you can shallow fry. The important part of the…
There is a Japanese rubbery sweet called ‘Kuzu Mochi’, which is made with starch of a plant called ‘Kuzu’. You may know a similar sweet called ‘Warabi Mochi’, that is traditionally made with starch of a plant called ‘Warabi’. As those starches are difficult to produce, substitutes are used these…
Today I realised that I had a lot of Spring Onions, a bunch I had bought and another bunch my daughter had bought, and some of them were VERY thick. As I had leftover ‘Abura-age’ (Fried Thin Tofu) to use up, I just stir-fried the VERY thick Spring Onions and…
