HAPPY DONABE LIFE - Mrs. Donabe's Rustic Japanese Kitchen

Welcome to Home of Donabe Cooking! This blog is about healthy Japanese and donabe (Japanese clay pot) cooking. I love my donabe life and I want to share the joy of donabe cooking with many other people. I also write about random food, wine, and travel experiences. Los Angeles | Tokyo

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Iga-yaki Grill…Yaki-niku BBQ Party with Friends

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Table-top cooking has various benefits. Once you have all the ingredients prepped up, as a host, you don’t have to hide in the kitchen to c...

More Donabe Smoking...We Keep Smoking

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Some more photos of our simple and wonderful donabe smoked dishes. This shiny round donabe smoker, "Ibushi Gin" , is a magical coo...

Monday, November 23, 2009

Donabe Steamed Pork Belly ("Bo Ssam")

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Our donabe smoked pork belly lunch was followed by the donabe steamed pork belly dinner. These are the main ingredients...pork belly blocks...

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Donabe Smoked Pork Belly

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I did some more quick donabe smoking for lunch. I've been salt-curing a big block of pork belly for a couple of days. I cut a few relat...

Tonight's Donabe Steamer...Vegetables and Chicken

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More steamy dishes... The great thing about our donabe steamer, "Mushi Nabe" , is that we can do multi-course dinner with this on...

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Yaki Niku Dinner with Iga-yaki Grill

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We had the "yaki niku" (meat BBQ) dinner with our new Iga-yaki grill, "Yaki Yaki San" . Just like our donabe pots, this ...

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Naoko/ About Me

Naoko: Author of DONABE cookbook (Ten Speed Press, Oct 2015). I am from Tokyo, and currently live in Los Angeles. I cook with donabe (Japanese clay pot) every day when I'm home and promote happy donabe lifestyle to people around the world. In 2008, I established a company called, toiro kitchen, an online donabe shop and a US representative of Nagatani-en (iga-mono brand), a producer of authentic Iga-yaki donabe and pottery, founded in 1832 in Iga, Japan. Check out toiro kitchen website: toirokitchen.com) Happy donabe life!

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