Category: Recipes

I’ve made matcha syrup before, but I had never seen a houjicha syrup until recently. I stumbled upon a Japanese video about it and decided to try it myself....

I saw a video about cooking rice in gyokuro instead of water, and decided to give it a try. As you know, gyokuro is rather expensive. So I just...

Ohagi (おはぎ) is a traditional Japanese sweet (wagashi). It’s also called botamochi. It consists of steamed mochi rice, sometimes with the addition of uruchimai (the standard Japanese rice). The...

This is a simple sauce using gyokuro that I adapted from the book Cooking with Tea. It’s great for dishes with fish because of the natural umami and marine...

At my home there’s always honey. I don’t eat honey that much, but my wife and daughter like it a lot. Some time ago I read this post about...

I used to enjoy preparing cocktails for friends when I was younger. Now I only do so occasionally. One that I like very much is the mojito. It is...

Affogato means “drowned” in Italian, and it consists of gelatto (or just a normal ice cream nowadays) and espresso. A modern version of this is the matcha affogato. It’s...

I saw this recipe at the theanoholic! blog and decided to give it a try. It contains spent sencha leaves, miso and mirin. Both miso and mirin are basic...

Last week I held a Japanese food and tea pairing with my friend Kayoko. At the end, we served a tea cocktail: the sencha vodka tonic. It was a...

I received a tea recipe booklet from Sugimoto Tea. This seasoning recipe has three Japanese green teas in it: houjicha, sencha and genmaicha. That’s why I had to try...

Green tea in general pairs well with vegetables, so it is a suitable ingredient for a salad dressing. I’ll share with you a quick and simple recipe. You can...

I made this cocktail with a recipe that my friend Kayoko taught me. She found it in a Japanese magazine, if I’m not mistaken. The original recipe uses a...