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Simple Japanese Breakfast Soup

I remember making this soup for the first time in the winter of 2015. It was my first year teaching, I had to wake up before the sun rose, and I had been sick for what felt like months from stress. At that time, I lived in a terribly insulated house with roommates, and weContinueContinue reading “Simple Japanese Breakfast Soup”

Food Lesson: Umeboshi Plums

You may have seen these wrinkly little plums as garnish in a bento box at a Japanese restaurant, on the inside of onigiri (filled rice balls), or simply placed on top of a bowl of plain rice—or maybe you have no idea what I’m talking about. Umeboshi plums, ume for short, are Japanese pickled plumsContinueContinue reading “Food Lesson: Umeboshi Plums”