Spring Rolls

Spring Rolls are delicious. A great cold food to eat in the summer. And very easy to make. If you ever see rice paper rolls in the store, stock up on them!

Rice noodles
Rice paper rolls
Veggies (carrots, onion, cilantro, bean sprouts, pepper, etc.)
Egg/shrimp/tofu/beef/seitan
Any other ingredients you want to put in

1.) Boil noodles until done
2.) Slice veggies into slivers and saute in some soy sauce and pepper.
3.) Soak rice paper into warm water until its soft
4.) lay out rice paper, place ingredients on the edge and roll the spring roll up.
5.) dip into hoisin sauce and eat.

Miso Soup

Miso soup is a sweet, tangy soup that hails from japan. Its one of my most favorite "comfort foods" to eat when I get a cold or relax in the afternoon and have a snack. It is a pretty simple soup to make, and it has tons of health benefits too.

Basic Ingredients:
Miso Paste
Dashi or Wakame Sea Weed + hot water or Vegetable soup stock
Scallions

Other Things you can add:
Mushrooms
Cubed Tofu
water chestnuts
somen noodles
Egg plant
Potatoes
Radish)
Thin pork slices (this would make the soup tonjiru)
Carrot

1.) Bring a few cups of dashi, soup stock or wakame seaweed + water to a boil.
2.) Once the soup boils turn the heat down, and keep it at a pre-boil temperature.
2.) add the solid/hard ingredients to the soup and cook until softened.
3.) Add disolve some miso paste into the soup. Once you do this, do not allow the soup to boil as this will change the flavor of the miso.
4.) Add soft ingredients and green vegetables to the miso and heat for a short time.
5.) Eat

Most Miso soups only have 1-3 ingredients in small quantities. Usually an item that floats and one that sinks. The ingredients are supposed to reflect the season and also have contrasts of color and texture. Having Miso is supposed to be as much as an aesthetic experience as a taste one.

Fried Rice

Fast, easy and Delicious. I love fred rice. And this isn't the fake stuff you get at a chinese restaurant. This is the real deal.

Left Over Rice
1 Tbsp Oil
Soy Sauce
Pepper
Ginger
add-in's: sausage, egg, carrots, onions, peas, other vegetables....


1.) In a frying pan or wok heat the oil.
2.) Add in sausage or tofu and cook for a little bit.
3.) Add in chopped vegetables, pepper and ginger. Cook.
4.) Add in rice and cook until it starts to crisp up.
5.) Sprinkle soy sauce over rice.
6.) Push rice to one side and crack egg in opening.
7.) When the egg is done being scrambled, mix it in with the rice.
8.) Eat.