Vegan Sweets and Treats
After much preparation we finally finished making all of the dishes that we wanted to have in our osechi-ryori. This year we made kobumaki (carrot, fried tofu, and burdock root wrapped in kelp), kuromame (black soybeans simmered in a sweet and savory sauce made from …
This past Sunday I was given the opportunity meet and work with Myoho Asari, the woman who helped spread the shio-koji trend throughout Japan. For those of you who are not familiar with shio-koji, it is steamed rice containing koji spores (which contain enzymes) combined …