Author of this blog – Mari Nameshida
・Japanese cooking instructor
・Chinese herbal medicine Advisor
・Chinese herbal medicine dishes Instructor
・Registered Nurse
・Public Health Nurse
・Food lover
If you are interested in our Japanese cooking class in Tokyo, please visit this link:
Link to Japanese cooking lesson tokyo in Japan
I learned about the basics of Japanese cooking from my mom at a young age and also went to cooking/baking school. I really love cooking and I have just kept cooking for a long time. I also love traveling and I noticed that there were few chances to immerse yourself in the local culture and taste. I thought it would be very nice if there was a place that travelers could go to the local people’s homes and learn how to cook local cuisine and as a result learn more about the local people. That is why I started my cooking classes.
In addition, I have decided to start writing about Japanese food, ingredients and recipes here–this blog.
I know that there’re many blogs about Japanese food or recipes everywhere but I also want to introduce and inherit our beautiful cultures through our dishes that nowadays most young people don’t care nor cherish so much here. I always believe that Japanese dishes have variable meanings more than just delicious food.
Here’s another reason, I love eating and traveling. And I noticed that there were few chances to immerse yourself in the local culture and taste when you go to foreign countries. Sometimes, when I learned the food I ate had some meanings, like cultural backgrounds or local people’s habitants, I was so excited and can understand that country more deeply always. I thought it would be very nice if there was a place that non-Japanese people could learn how to cook local cuisine and as a result learn more about the local people. That is why I started my blog.
I hope you will enjoy my recipes and know our cultures a little bit more through local dishes or life.
Easy, simple and healthy Japanese recipes - Japanese cokbook 
I came from Japan. Thank you for following my blog.
Thanks too!! Looking forward to seeing your articles.
Hi,
Thank you for following my blog. i love Japanese food 😀
Thank you for nice comment too! Hope you enjoy cooking Japanese food:)
i enjoy it so much, i’ll always 🙂
Hi Yuna,
Thank you for your message! I will do my best to keep updating my blog. If you have request, let me know.
Hi Mari,
i’m looking forward to it.
thank you for your nice consideration about it, i’ll think about the request too 😀
Nameshida-San, thank you for following my blog. I like Japanese food. They are delicious. And I like your blog 🙂
Thank you for your message! I love food too and keep posting about cooking and food here 🙂
Your welcome..It’s nice to know you 🙂
Hi there, thanks for stopping by my blog and liking my recipes! I love Japanese cooking, I am excited to read more of your authentic recipes. Thanks for sharing!
Hi, Thank you for your message and sharing about your food too 🙂 I love food and cooking also and looking forward to seeing your blog!
I love this! I’m so excited to have a Japanese cooking blog to read!
Thank you very much!!
Thank you very much!!!
thank you for the follow! We look forward to being inspired by your lovely blog x
Thank you so much!! 🙂
Many thanks for the follow. I read your post about the plum wine. Very similar process to the Vervain drink that is made here in Provence. Take a bottle and stuff it full of Vervain (verbena) leaves and then pour in 80% alcohol. Put the top on an leave it in a dark room for 3-4 weeks. Pour out the alcohol into a second bottle and add a sugar syrup to it to reduce alcohol level to say 40% and then keep it in the freezer or fridge. Drink sparingly 🙂 it has a beautiful flavour but is a strong drink.
Thank you for you comment. I am very interested in the Varvain drink you mentioned. Since I was in Provence for a trip last month, I should know about that. Thank you for your new insight.
Thanks for the follow. You have a nice blog here. よろしくお願いします。
Thank you too! こちらこそ宜しくお願いします。
Thank you for following my blog! I’m so glad you did because your blog is full of wonderful recipes that remind me of my time in Japan 🙂 Really excited to try them out!
Thank you very much! I wıll do my best to update blogs and recıpes whıch the guests may lıke.
Hi, thanks for following my blog! I hope you have lots of people enjoying your recipes out on that side of Japan!
Buri-chan,
Thank you very much! I will do my best to introduce beautiful and delicious Japan!
Thank you for liking and following my blog… I wish I had met you before my trip to Japan. I would love a cooking class the next time I am in Tokyo!
Thank you for your kind comment. You enjoyed Japan? I am looking forward to seeing you 🙂
Thank you for following my blog – it’s still very early in the development stages 🙂 I’m actually quite interested in the health care industry and may ask you some questions about nursing 😉 I hope that’s ok! I look forward to reading your blog and making delicious Japanese meals 😉
Thank you for your comment too! Don’t hesitate to contact me.
真理さん、こんにちは。Thanks for checking out my blog! I would love to join your cooking classes some time! よろしくお願いします。
セリアさん、こんにちは。Thank you for you comment too! I am always waiting for your joining to our class:)
Thankyou for liking my post! As a new blogger it’s really inspiring to be noticed by someone like you! I love your recipes and will definitely be trying a few out at home, they look beautiful! 🙂
Thank you for your comment too! Reishabu is easy to cook and sushi roll is exciting to cook. Please try whatever you like.
I will, thankyou! I can’t wait to try sushi made at home. 😀
That is nice. The point is not to put too much ingredients (rice, fish and others).
Yes! Ah, inside the roll? Should you balance the ingredients?
Yes. To avoid making something like futomaki, balancing the ingredients and the seaweed is important. And some people tend to put too much ingredient.
Ahh okay I see, thankyou, I’ll definitely bear this in mind and I’ll follow your recipes carefully!
Enjoy you cooking!!
You look like a wonderful cook. I love your blog.
Thank you for your kind comment. I am happy to hear that and would like to write articles more.
hi Mari, thanks for join in my blog. nice to meet you. btw I really love japanese food and I`ll watching your class food from now. Domo arigatou.
Hi, nice to meet you too. Thank you for your warm comment. I will try my best to update articles about Japanese food and cultures to inform more to foreigners.
Mari-san
こんにちは。日本人の方ですね。うれしいです。Thanks for visitng my blog. You have a very nice blog! I admire anybody who likes cooking. I don’t really like cooking but I love to eat good food somebody else cooks. I wish I could eat what you cook ^^. I will return and check your blog periodically. がんばってくださいね。Good luck
はい、メッセージありがとうございます。
Someday please eat food what I cook 🙂
がんばりますね。 Thnak you very much!
こんにちは! Thanks for following me! Your blog is so amazing!
I’m looking forward to exploring your recipes and trying some out. よろしくお願いします。
こんにちは！こちらこそ、ありがとうございます。これからも宜しくお願いします。リクエストがあったら言って下さいね。
OMG i love your blog! japan is like my first love and i love everything about it ( especially its food and manga and anime) i’ve been bugging my mum to take me to japan for years.. the last time i went was when i was six:)
Hi, thank you for your nice comment! Hope you come to Japan soon and enjoy foods and Akihabara!!!
So sad that i didn’t find your blog sooner, as i have just spent two weeks in Japan and now am hooked on Japanese food. The complexity of tastes and textures and range of cooking methods makes for a interesting cuisine. I have come away craving a particular dish which was served for breakfast – a silky tofu dish served cold with a miso (?) dressing? Would love it if you would post some information on the different ways of serving tofu. I look forward to following your blog…
Thank you for comment and request for the tofu recipe. Tofu is asian unique food and there are a lot of way to cook like eating with soy sauce of putting in every kinds of Nabe(Simmering). I will think about what is good to introduce here.
I’ll look forward to your recipes on tofu 🙂
Thank you Mari for stopping by and following my blog. I love everything about Japan, so glad I found your blog! Will be learning a lot about Japan and Japanese cuisine from you 🙂
Thank you for your comment! I will update my blog at my best! Some day please come to Japan.
Hi Mari, thank you for following my blog and I love your blog so much! In fact I am about to visit Japan for a holiday at the end of this year…your blog definitely gives me more insight on Japanese delicacies
Hello, thank you so much for your posting the warm comment. I hope you enjoy your trip in Japan!!!
Thanks for following my blog. What a wonderful site you have here, food and culture. =)
Thank you for your comments too! Because I love food, I just like to write about it. If you enjoy them, I am very happy.
Mari, you’re blog looks like a lot of fun. I like the mix of travel, ‘food around Tokyo’ and recipes. I’ve made sushi before but it didn’t turn out, perhaps I should try again?
Thanks very much for following my blog. I’m looking forward to more posts from your blog as well.
Hello, thank you so much for your comment. Wow you have cooked sushi? It is so easy to be seemed easy, but you need some tips to complete it. Anyway I am happy to know that you enjoy cooking Japanese food and appreciating its culture.
Mari san, ありがとう for visiting phorenyatra. I share the same passion as you for traveling and immersing in local culture and cuisine! You have a wonderful blog, especially the wide variety of foods that you have covered and also connecting the foods to Japanese festivals.
I am still only beginning to write my blog and I have lots and lots of material about Japan that I will add in the coming weeks. I hope you like it.
こんにちは、こちらこそありがとうございます！ 同じような気持ちでできるなんて嬉しいです。 I am glad to know that you have same passion with me. I look forward to seeing your blog too.
Hi Mari, thank you for following my blog. I love how you write about Japanese food. Your country never ceases to amaze me.
Hello, thank you so much for you feedback! You words make me happy and allows me to have more power to write the blogs.
i absolutely love Japan and Japanese food! I loved your post about Matsuri (it was my fav to attend in Kobe when I lived there). Thanks for the follow, look forward to hearing from you 🙂 And look forward to all your posts and will try your vegetarian recipes! XX
Oh, you attend in Kobe? That is nice. I haven’t been to a Matsuri in West Japan Area, but it seems be different from Tokyo’s one.
Besides, thank you for your request for the vegetarian recipes. If I have chance I would like to post it.
Thanks for following my blog, I have loved Japanese food in the past but my doctors have told me not to eat it since my angioplasty last year. If you can come up with any salt-free, fat-free Japanese dishes for me to try, I would love that.
Thank you for your comment! I’m sorry that there’s no Japanese food without salt or soy sauce.. but I used to work for hospital as a nurse, and patients still ate Japanese food everyday. You can use less salt soy sauce for cooking and morevinegar 🙂 if you cook by yourself, i think you can have Japanes food.
Hello Mari, thank you for following my blog. I am glad that I found a blog like yours because I love cooking and I love Japanese food 🙂
Hello, thank you too for posting your comment. I would like to write Japanese recipes which you foreigners can easily cook.
I’m not very fond of food, or making it, but your blog makes me wanna try it! Especially after having the cooking class with you ^^, Therefor I nominated your blog for the Varsatiles blogger award! http://nailmatsuri.wordpress.com/2013/09/11/omg-the-versatile-blogger-award/
Wow, conglatulations!! You know many of my friends saw your picture and they said you’re so beautiful 🙂 I told them you like Japan a lot then they’re very happy. Yes, please try some dishes when you cook, they’re so easy :)！xoxo
Haha they did? Say thank you to them from me ^^, I will try to move to Japan in a couple of years! So wish me luck 😉
I wanted try try to make the dishes you did teach us, but the only ingrediens I could find was the Chinese Yam…. (｡-_-｡) I need to look some more
Hello,
I just wanted to thank you for both visiting and following my blog. I’m glad that you liked it.
I also took a look around your blog. I hope you don;t mind. It seems really interesting. I look forward to reading more from you.
Thank you so much too! I will try doing my best to write better articles to offer the tasty food culture in Japan.
Thanks for following my blog.
Thank you for you commment!
Hi Mari, your blog has been very inspirational to me and I just want to say that I’ve nominated you for Liebster Award. Participation is of course optional. Details can be found here: http://mykitchenoflove.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/liebster-award/
Have a good day 😉
Wow, that is nice! Thank you for your kindness. I would like to try doing my best to keep writing blog.
Thanks for following my blog. I find your blog interesting, too. I also love cooking, but I haven’t tried cooking any Japanese food. I worked in Japan before, so Japanese culture (including food) is like a second culture to me. 🙂
Thank you for your kind comment.wow, you worked in Japan. Hope you can remenber something in Japan by reading my blogs. Thank you.
Hi Mari, thank you so much for stopping by my blog so I could discover yours! So happy I did, because I just LOVE Japanese food! And it’s great to have such a fantastic source of information to learn to make more of this myself! It’s a really great blog you have! hugs, Sylvia 😉
Thank you so much too! If you have an request, please let me know!
Wow what a great blog! I can’t wait to try some of these out! I wish I had discovered this sooner.
Hi Andrew, thank you for your comment I am happy to hear that. Please enjoy!
HI, thank for following. Food does a drive! love having journey with tastes 🙂
I am looking forward to following your blog! I have been in love with Japanese foods most of my life. Right now I am obsessed with ramen. I would love to be able to attend your classes… maybe someday! Cheers – Jeff
Thank you Jeff! I’m sorry that I don’t teach Ramen in my class since it takes 30 plus hours, but I Love Ramen too and hope I can upload the recipe near future :)!
No worries… I have been experimenting. We have a fantastic Japanese market, Mitsuwa, right down the street. 🙂 I am looking forward to visiting Japan and taking some of you classes.
Hi there, thank you for following my blog, it seems I may have stumbled upon your blog several times in my search for recipes thru a website search but never really registered the fact that it was a wordpress blog that I could follow 😛
Looking forward to learning more about yummy japanese dishes!
Thank you for your comment! I’m so glad to hear that my recipe is made from someone in the world..! All of my recipes are very local ones, Hope you like the taste 🙂
Hi Mari,
Thank you for the follow! I started looking at your blog too and find that I can’t wait to try so many of your recipes eg the Melon buns. I also find your post about making miso very informative and interesting.
Thank you for your comment and I’m looking forward your blog as well!
Thank you for following recipesfromeden.com. I look forward to trying out some of your recipes especially the vegetarian recipes. keep it up!