If you’re like me and you grew up in an Asian household, you’ve probably never lived a day of your life without a rice cooker. How hard can it be? Measure the rice, add the water, and flip the switch: that’s it. At least that’s what I thought. Turns out rice needs a little more…
Category: Kitchen
Sayumi’s Milk Risotto
A simple dish you can make with leftover rice! Ingredients 1/8 carrot 1/8 onion 1/4 bell pepper 100 ml milk 1 tbsp mentsuyu 2 tbsp water salt and pepper to taste 160 g cooked rice* 1 slice cheese Method 1. Dice the vegetables and fry in a frying pan. 2. Once heated through, add the…
Sayumi’s Loco Moco Heart Bento
Sayumi ate this for lunch the day she had studio recordings. A few explanations/disclaimers follow the recipe. Ingredients 1 Love-Love Burger (leftovers) 1 egg 1/2 potato 30g cabbage 160g cooked rice 1 tsp ketchup³ curry powder/roux to taste² Method 1. Fry the egg sunny-side up (or easy/medium over).¹ 2. Cut the potato into even discs/hearts…
Sayumi’s Mentsuyu Nikujaga and Kinpira
The second meal shown on the program, Sayumi mentions she’d like to make this for that special someone one day. Ingredients Nikujaga 1/3 carrot 1 potato 1/2 onion 70g chicken breast oil for cooking 320 ml water 2 tbsp mentsuyu Kinpira 1 tbsp mentsuyu 1 tsp sugar 1 tsp sesame oil for kinpira frying Method…
Michishige Sayumi’s Love-love burger
Michishige’s first meal in the competition, she commented that this was something she often made with her mother. This was her first dish she said she would be making on her own before she started. Ingredients For the burger/sides 1/2 onion 100 ml milk 30 g panko/bread crumbs 1 egg 90 g ground beef/pork 1/8…
Michishige Sayumi’s Ougon Densetsu: Overview/Ingredient List
To put it in short: I rewatched Michishige Sayumi’s appearance on Ougon Densetsu (黄金伝説) when she did the “1 month, 10,000 yen challenge” (一万円一ヶ月生活対決) against Robert’s Akiyama Ryuji. After finding a collection of her recipes online in Japanese and trying a couple with success, I figured it was time to share those recipes in English….
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