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Autumn Fish

Sanma or Pacific Saury is one of the many autumn foods that you get in abundance in Japan. It is cheap and can be eaten raw as sashimi or sushi(mmmm:) and cooked in various ways from baked, bbq’ed or in Sanma Takikomi Gohan [Japanese Mixed Rice with Pacific Saury] which you can cook by following [...]

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Autumn Flavours

It took a while but I have finally excepted that autumn is here and winter is just around the corner. So without any further a do I would like to introduce Autumn Flavours the new section of this blog devoted to autumn food.
So what’s in the pot and on the table this time of year? [...]

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Chestnut Rice?

Another week has ended and another one has begun and here in Hokkaido the days are still still and the weather fair yet in just a few weeks the first of the ski resorts will open. It’s hard to believe that the landscape will be turned white by seemingly endless snowstorms. However autumn is drawing [...]

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