Kabayaki (pacific saury grilled with teriyaki-like sauce)

I can eat a bowl of rice with only one piece of fish, it is so good for making a lunch box (bento).

Ingredients: 2 pacific saury, flour
^2tbs:soy sauce, 1/2tbs:sake, 1tbs:mirin, 1tbs:sugar

Recipe:

1. Cut pacific saury in to 3 pieces. (don't forget to get rid of all the organs inside, it would taste bitter)
2. Apply flour onto the fish pieces, then get rid of excess.
3. Heat a pan with some oil, then lay out the fish pieces.
4. Heat, middle-high-heat, both sides of the fish until the surface color change to brownish.
5. Change the heat to low-heat, and then add ^(ingredient) into the pan.
6. Cover the fish pieces with basting, and boil until the sauce is nearly gone.
   

I think any fish can be applied to this recipe.

rice soup (chicken flavor)

It was so cold out side, so I wanted to eat something warm. I have a Maggi's chicken flavor bouillon in my shelf all the time, because it is so useful!

Ingredients: 3cm daikon, carrot, 1/4 onion, 6 pieces of grape tomato, 1/2 can of sea chicken,
^(3/4 block of chicken flavor bouillon, 1tbsp mirin), salt, pepper,
about 5 cups of water, steamed rice.

Recipe:

1. Cut all of the vegetables in the same size.
2. Stir carrot, onion and sea chicken first in a pan with oil. Then add daikon and stir more.
3. Add water and ^(ingerdients).
4. when it boils, turn the fire into small.
5. Boil until all of the vegetable becomes soft.
6. Add salt and pepper as much as you like.
7. Add steamed rice into the soup and boil for 3 min.

It was my first time cooking daikon with chicken bouillon but it was really good!

Japanese Radish and Chinese Cabbage stew (miso flavor)

A daikon is one of my favorite vegetables! It taste amazingly good when it is boiled with dashi-soup. I think it is called a radish in English?

Ingredients: Daikon (about 10cm), chinese cabbage, sliced carrot

^(tbsp2:sake, tbsp2:sugar, tbsp1:soy sauce, 1 cup:dashi soup),

*(tbsp2:miso paste, tbsp1:mirin)

Recipe:

1. Cut daikon very thinly


2. Stir the vegetables with oil in a pan


3. Add ^(ingredients) into the pan, put the top on the pan and boil with medium heat until it begins to boil.


4. Turn the heat into small, add *(ingredient) into the pan.


5. Boil it until the soup decreases

You can put whatever vegetable you want. I also added a deep-fried tofu. Its soup might be good with udon/noodle too!

Chinese Cabbage Stew (soy sauce)

Chinese cabbage is really easy to cook. It tastes good in any kind of form of meal like soup, stir fry, steam, and donburi.

Ingredients: Chinese cabbage, carrot, meat (I used chicken), 3tbsp:soy sauce, 1 cup:dashi soup.

Recipe:

1. Stir the meat first in a pan, and then add vegetables into the pan.
2. When meat and vegetables are cooked, add dashi soup and soy sauce into the pan.
3. Put the cover of the pan and boil for 5 min.
4. Take the cover and boil until the soups are little bit left.
   

I like to leave some soup and pour it on the steamed rice.

Gyu-Tama Don (beef & egg bowl)

Lunch on sunday, I had no energy for cooking something time-consuming....so I ended up cooking one of the easiest and delicious Japanese famous Donburi(bowl).

Ingredients: Sliced beef, sliced onion, egg,
^(2 tbsp:soy sauce, 1tbsp:mirin, 1/2tbsp:sugar, *1 cup:dashi soup, 1/4tbsp:sake)
steamed white rice.

Recipe:

1. Put sliced beef and onion in a pan. Add ^ into the pan and simmer until the beef and onion are well cooked. Taste the soup to make sure you like it, and you can adjust it by adding sugar or soy sauce.
2. When the beef and onion are ready, add a beaten egg. Put the pan's cover and steam it for a 2 minutes until the egg is cooked.
3. Serve it onto the steamed rice.

*dashi soup: You can make dashi soup from the scratch which I have never done before. I use dashi no moto that you can absolutely find at any Asian market. It is a powder dashi stock, you can make dashi soup by adding that powder into a boiling water.

I usually use an instant Gyudon(beef bowl) that the beef and onion are already cooked with the taste of Gyudon and all you have to do it damp it into a pan and heat them up. It may be sold at Asian market in the USA.