Japan Simple Life

After living dangerously for decades with a dodgy pressure cooker (the type with just the wobbly thing on the top) I decided it was time to end a...

I know that men need more many MENues.
There are plenty of yummy things one can have on a low carb diet and not get bored.
Of course it can be more...

Me and the girl just got a pretty decent food dehydrator/dryer at a clearance sale and I'm looking for ideas!

Anyone got recipes?

I'm thinking...

Senor Gonbe made a discovery of Angus beef at Aprice this Sunday.
He arrived home with a 2kg pack that had been marked down to 3000Y
It said Beef...

At Christmas we bought ourselves a present of a panini press.
I must say it has changed our lives and really jazzed up the way we process leftovers...

tl:dr Drinking raw milk: should I be worried about anything, contamination, etc?

Well it's been just under 10 years since I started making milk...

I recently bought a small charcoal smoker and grill unit. Looking forward to trying it out this month.

What are your recipes or techniques? What...

Has anyone tried making beer at home? I'd love to hear any tricks and tips.

I got a kit and gave it a go last December. It came with a can of...

So, my wife and all her friends love my apple crisp dessert. They are encouraging me to open a cafe that just serves quality coffee and apple...

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So im working toward setting up a bakery
just wondering if anyone knows the names of good restaurant supply companies or ingredient...

I'm looking for images of antique nukazuke pots
If you know of any or if you stumble across some let me know
I just get the standard modern ones on...

So today in the supermarket, a squash I have never seen in Japan before in all my long years.
Very expensive, 45yen per 100g.
Of course 400Yen for...

Warning, this thread is not going to be devoted to the 100% healthy, nor will it always be cheap and nasty.

Often we come across something in a...

Some of us do not grow our own chickens, most of us do not grow our own steaks or chops either.
We all know that things like these are either hard...

Baked up some bread for a change. Haven't done much baking recently.

Actual time spent preparing this was probably less than 5 minutes.

This...

Figured I might as well post up my corn pottage recipe. This was self-developed so it might be different from what you buy in the supermarket but...

Some pics of what we've been cooking. Please post your pics too.

Tonight is oden night, and tomorrow night and depending on how things go, well the day after tomorrow too.

I like to start my oden in a normal pot...

Calzones are great, and surprisingly simple to make. I used a rather yeast intensive recipe last night, I think I would scale it back by a teaspoon...

Point skis toe inwards whilst pushing heels out and on an angle.
Apply enough pressure to create a decent size wedge.
Not making pizza correctly...

Is there anyone out there who might know about hato mugi? Also known as Jobs tears and by several other names, it looked neat, and somewhat different...

Here's a VERY easy recipe for eggnog.

This recipe is a little unique in that it uses no cream, instead you use a submersible mixer to build up the...