Recipes for Japanese stock Dashi is the basic stock of Japanese cuisine. It can be prepared in several manners, but mostly dashi is made with seaweed and dried bonito. Below there are several recipes for making dashi. When preparing noodlse, use Japanese noodle bouillon. The two main variations of dashi are ichiban dashi and niban…
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Sixteenth-century pasta dough
Straight to the recipe Two recipes from the Opera of Bartolomeo Scappi Let’s all say it once more, loud and clear: “Marco Polo did NOT bring pasta to Italy from China!” Dried pasta was already eaten in Europe before the good man returned from his travels in 1295. According to some, pasta was already known to the…
Basics – Making fresh bread crumbs
To the index of Tips & Tricks Bread crumbs were widely used in the Middle Ages and still today in Spanish cuisine (gazpacho, recipe in Dutch). It is still widely used for meat balls, breading ingredients before frying, or making a golden crust in the oven. Bread crumbs can even be used for thickening sauces,…
Japanese bouillon for noodles
Asian noodles enjoy a worldwide popularity, thanks to the easily prepared noodles that only need boiling water. Japanese noodles can be eaten hot or cold. When served hot, the noodlses must be piping hot, and it is allowed to make some noise while eating them. The bouillon in which the noodles are served has two…