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New Cooking Classes in August!

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The bento class in June at Hot Stove Society was a full house. Everyone enjoyed making their own rice balls in the hands-on session! So the popular class will be back in August if you missed it the last time. I will teach some simple techniques to pack your bento to look beautiful and appetizing, along with mouthwatering bento recipes!

Sign up for the class here today!

And there will be a new class introcuded in August – sushi making hands-on! You will learn popular homecooking sushi recipes out of dozens of sushi dish varieties including Temari zushi (sushi rice balls), maki zushi (traditional and reversed) and temaki auzhi (hand rolls). It will be a lot of fun! The registration is here!

You Can Have Your Sushi Roll and Eat It

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I am picky. I am greedy. Talking about food, of course 🙂

There are times when I crave California rolls and want “something else” too.

So here it is, I made up my dream bento – Sushi combo, with my favorite potato croquette (or any deep fried dish to be honest), Yasai Nimono (root vegetable stew), Sunomono (refreshing salad with vinaigrette), Renkon Kimpira (sweet and spicy lotus root), and Tamagoyaki! A perfect balance meal!

My husband proved this was a good combo by scarfing it down in a few minutes in front of my eyes. It’s the stamp of approval right there!(Well he might be a bit biased as a result of my brainwashing him over the years).

You should try it and let me know what you think! Any feedback is super appreciated! Order Sushi Combo Bento here! The meal pick-up is on March 15.

The meals of the week – Doria and Hamburger Steak!

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My first couple of experiences with Josephine have been great. Both Tonjitu + rice balls and Karaage bento were sold out, and I got very positive reviews at both Josephine and Nextdoor.

This week is a Yoshoku week. Yoshoku is a Japanese style Western food, and it’s the core of the Japanese comfort food culture. If you go visit Japan, you’ll be stunned to see how many yoshoku restaurants are around in town.

Doria is one of the all-time yoshoku favorites. It’s basically rice gratin with bechamel sauce and cheese on top of the casserole. If you still don’t have an idea what it is like try my chicken doria through Josephine this week on March 1!

Also, hamburger steak is VERY popular. For most Americans salisbury steak might sound more familiar. If you ask Japanese kids if they like ham urger steak I could bet that 99% would say YES! So I decided to make a bento with a hamburger steak, with no-so-sweet teriyaki sauce and ponzu relish. How could it be more Japanese? 🙂 The bento will be available on March 3 through Josephine.

I hope you will enjoy the flavors of the Japanese comfort food Yoshoku at my kitchen!

 

Karaage Bento is now available for dinner!

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The same karaage bento, which was a bit hit for lunch, is now available through Josephine! If you live in North Seattle or can come by to pick up on Feb 22 (Wed), you should give it a try to my Karaage bento! You’ll love it and come back for more 😀

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Order now at https://www.josephine.com/meals/japanese-karaage-bento/

Looking forward to meeting you in person!

 

 

Bento Anyone?

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Finally! I will start my bento delivery services next week (probably on Wednesday). It’s sort of a trial project at this point, and there will be some adjustment and improvement as I go. Stay tuned for more details! Or contact kozmokitchen.gmail.com for more info.

The bento for next week (the date is TBD) is Karaage Bento. The delivery locations will be a few buildings on the Microsoft campus. If that goes well, I might be able to expand delivery areas to Seattle such as downtown, Fremont, etc, but I’ll need to use some help to arrange the delivery locations.

Anyhow, here is the current menu:
Karaage (Japanese fried chicken)
Potato salad
Tamago yaki (rolled omelet)
Ingen Gomaae (green beans with sesame dressing)
Nasu Agebitashi (fried eggplant in dashi broth)
Kyuri Karahizuke (cucumber quick pickled in mustard brine)
Ginger rice (rice cooked with fresh ginger)
Note: Contains meat (chicken), eggs, no dairy. Contains wheat in soy sauce.

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