Cook Japanese with Tamako: Hearty Meals for the Whole Family

137 Pages·2014·38.905 MB·English

by  Tamako Sakamoto

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photography by Noriko Yamaguchi
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Copyright © 2014 Tamako Sakamoto
All photographs by Noriko Yamaguchi except for those on pages 22, 24, 26, 84, 96, 100, 102
and 114 from the Sakamoto family album.
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Sakamoto, Tamako.
Cook Japanese with Tamako : hearty meals for the whole family / Tamako Sakamoto.
– Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Cuisine, 2013.
pages cm
ISBN : 978-981-4516-11-2 (paperback)
1. Cooking, Japanese. 2. Sakamoto, Tamako – Family.
3. Women journalists – Family relationships – Japan.
4. Families – Japan. I. Title.
TX724.5.J3
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Contents
Introduction 9
A Growing Family 10
Big Bowls of Mother’s Love 40
Shiratama Secrets and Childhood Memories 68
Affordable Feasts and Fuel for Footballers 98
Basic Recipes 126
Glossary 128
Recipe Index 134
Acknowledgements 136
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Introduction
What comes to mind when you think of some are well known traditional dishes that
Japanese food? Neatly placed jewel-like Japanese mothers often prepare. In essence,
sushi, thin, almost transparent slices of these recipes can be likened to comfortable
beef for shabu-shabu or crispy, deep-fried cotton T-shirts rather than kimonos made
tempura, beautifully arranged on a plate? of silk.
While it is true that the Japanese have After I left my full-time job to stay
long enjoyed such traditional food, you will home and take care of my growing family,
discover, in this book, that Japanese mothers I constantly felt that these incredibly busy
like myself have a much larger repertory of days caring for my young children would
home-style dishes made with fresh, seasonal last forever. The laundry piled up, the bags
ingredients. We also enjoy foods from other of groceries were quickly consumed, and the
countries, using native Japanese produce meals I spent hours preparing disappeared
as necessary. On any family dining table, within minutes. But it was while I was raising
you are also bound to fi nd dishes with roots my children that the recipes in this book and
from other countries along with traditional the stories that go with them were born.
Japanese dishes. I don’t keep a diary or maintain a blog
This book contains the articles and recipes to keep a record of what goes on in my
that have appeared in my column, Taste of life, so it was not until I reread my old
Home, which started in 2006, in The Daily manuscripts to publish this book that
Yomiuri (now named The Japan News), an I realized the days I felt would never end
English newspaper published by The Yomiuri were actually changing all the time. A family
Shimbun. The four chapters in the book are is in constant transformation. As my children
arranged chronologically, featuring recipes grow up and leave home, the amount of food
from the fi rst four years of the column. Since I prepare will gradually be reduced. The days
my four children often feature in the articles, of struggling to prepare incredible amounts
you will be able to trace their growth through of food will not last for the rest of my life.
the chapters. So, I’ll enjoy these days of cooking for great
I am not a professional chef, but I am a appetites and be thankful for the joy that we
mother in a family of six. Most of the recipes are able to share around the table.
in this book are ones I learnt from my mother I am delighted that you have found this
and grandmothers or ideas I got from my book and I hope you will enjoy preparing
friends. Some are my original recipes and these dishes with a Japanese taste of home.
Tamako Sakamoto
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