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Umami Days

Congee days and ramen nights

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  • Recipes
    • Appetizers
    • Salads
    • Soups
    • Main courses
    • Side dishes
    • Sweets
    • Snacks
    • Beverages
  • Cooking tips
    • Kitchen how-tos
    • Cooking ingredients
    • Kitchen tools
  • Food stories
  • Umami Art Club

One Bowl Meals

Rice bowls and noodle bowls to feed a few or to feed a crowd. With meat, with seafood, meatless, with or without broth. For everyday meals and even for special occasions. Make beef pho, poke bowl, fried rice. Cook pasta in every imaginable way.

Japanese-inspired carbonara with bonito flakes and furikake

Japanese-inspired carbonara

Inspired by a pasta dish we enjoyed at a Japanese restaurant long ago, this Japanese-style carbonara has angel hair pasta, bacon, cream, salted egg powder, bonito flakes …

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Korean stir fried vegetables and glass noodles (japchae)

Korean stir fried vegetables and glass noodles (japchae)

Historically a noodleless dish, japchae evolved into a sweet-salty Korean stir fried noodle dish that uses dangmyeon, a thick and extra chewy noodle made with sweet …

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Stir fried adlay (Job's tears) a la yang chow

Stir fried adlay (Job’s tears) a la yang chow

Cook adlay (Job's tears') like rice, spread on a tray to cool to room temperature then stir fry it yang chow fried rice style. Delicious and filling one bowl meal.

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Lasagna with white sauce and pesto

Lasagna with Béchamel (white sauce) and pesto

Seriously, there's more to lasagna than red sauce. Mozzarella is not a must either.

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Beef and Bean Salad Drizzled with Mayo

Beef and bean salad

Sweet, tangy, spicy. Meaty but served with enough vegetables to cut through the fat. It's a delicious one bowl meal.

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Cheesy Chicken Pasta Salad in Red Plate

Chicken and pasta salad

Chopped cooked chicken, fusilli (spiral pasta), pineapple, bell pepper, walnuts and olives are tossed with whipped cream cheese and mayo dressing.

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Meatballs shigureni

Meatballs shigureni

Cook meatballs (fry, bake, grill or broil), heat dashi, soy sauce, sake, mirin, sugar and ginger in a shallow pan just until simmering, drop in the cooked meatballs and …

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