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Editor’s note: The theme of Gohan Lab is to help people make simple, tasty “gohan” (meals). * * * Well respond to our readers’ requests regarding recipes in four parts starting this week. A 75-year-old resident of Tokyo’s Itabashi Ward wrote to us requesting a recipe for “Milanese-style fried tenderloin cutlet.” She said she came to like it after having it for lunch at an Italian restaurant and wished to make it herself. In Italy, the usual ingredient for the dish is veal, which ...

Editor’s note: The theme of Gohan Lab is to help people make simple, tasty “gohan” (meals). *

Editor’s note: The theme of Gohan Lab is to help people make simple, tasty “gohan” (meals). * * * Knowing how to properly freeze ingredients is a great help when you tend to have ones that you couldnt use up or are stuck having to cook with what you have at home. Yet we often hear that freezing food makes it less tasty. Youll learn all about the fine art of freezing in our five-part series, starting with this installment. To start off, we chose a soup packed with frozen vegetables. If you...

Editor’s note: The theme of Gohan Lab is to help people make simple, tasty “gohan” (meals). * * * This week’s installment marks the 100th of the Gohan Lab series, which started in April 2019. We decided to look back on past recipes and asked our advisers to provide tips on deciding on the menu and answer questions from our readers. Caesar salad (Photo by Masahiro Goda) The Nutrition Clinic of the Kagawa Nutrition University, which oversees the nutrient calculation for Gohan Lab, was ask...

* * * Dressing, the partner to salads, caps our series that took a close look at the flavors of popular dishes. To produce a mild dressing that still has some bite, well add to the basic combination of one part vinegar to two to three parts oil. Unlike commercially available dressings, well go easy on the salt and aim for a dressing that highlights the main ingredients. You always can add more salt later. We recommend using any colorful seasonal fruits and vegetables you have left in the kitche...

Editor’s note: The theme of Gohan Lab is to help people make simple, tasty “gohan” (meals). * * * The aroma of browned green onion and soy sauce rises from the plate, and the golden rice is light in texture. There is a way to cook fried rice, known in Japan as “chahan,” that produces the ideal savor without having to master the tricky pan-shaking. A closer look at what forms the flavor of fried rice shows the ingredients dotting the rice serve as the basis, and the power of oil and he...

Editor’s note: The theme of Gohan Lab is to help people make simple, tasty “gohan” (meals). * * * People who enjoy eggs and pasta will love this weeks recipe for spaghetti carbonara, which balances the rich sauce created by adding cheese or cream to eggs, thick noodles matching the sauce, and the black pepper that spices it all up, to create the popular flavor. Carbonara means “charcoal worker style,” named so according to one theory due to the coarsely grated black pepper used in it ...

Editor’s note: The theme of Gohan Lab is to help people make simple, tasty “gohan” (meals). * * * Despite its close association with Japanese cuisine, did you know that tofu goes well with olive oil? In Italy, people enjoy ricotta cheese, which resembles tofu in its look and texture, with olive oil. This is what inspired us to come up with this week’s Western-style, tofu-mix dish. When making “shira-ae” (literally “dressed in white”), we will add flavorful seasonings and ingredi...

Editor’s note: The theme of Gohan Lab is to help people make simple, tasty “gohan” (meals). * * * Think you know your tofu? Whats the difference between “momen” and “kinugoshi” tofu? How heavy is a standard block of it? Despite tofu being such a familiar item, the questions may stump you. Our four-part series starting this week focuses on tofu that tastes good as is and is more savory when cooked. About 90 percent of tofu is water, which many recipes require you to drain before yo...

Editor’s note: The theme of Gohan Lab is to help people make simple, tasty “gohan” (meals). *