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Edamame Fried Rice

Remember my last post, when I talked about fried eggs with oyster sauce over rice, the best umami-laden breakfast that takes almost no time to make? Well, I forgot to mention an even quicker one – a fried egg topped with furikake. Or for that matter, plain rice topped with furikake. Furikake, if you’re not familiar [...]

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Perfect Edamame; or, my experiment with a Wiki recipe

It took a trip to Japan to realize I’ve been making edamame wrong all these years. Well, not necessarily wrong wrong. But not the best way possible. When I discovered the joys of edamame about 10 or 12 years ago, I would buy bags of the frozen stuff, microwave them, and sprinkle table salt on [...]

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