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

Saturday, January 23, 2010

More Power of Miso...Miso Marinated Tofu and Eggs

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Miso is one of the staple ingredients in Japan and we use miso in our cooking almost everyday. We try different types of miso for different...

Friday, January 22, 2010

Donabe Trio Dinner...Power of Miso

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Another quick and delicious donabe dinner... Three dishes with three donabes in 45 minutes. Rice was made with our donabe rice cooker, ...

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Magical Drink...Amazake

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The new shipment of Amazake has arrived from Fukui, Japan. Amazake is literally translated as "Sweet Sake", but there is no alcoho...

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Making Miso...4 months development

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It's been already 4 months since we made the miso (back in September 09), so it was time to check its development once again. We opened ...

Monday, January 18, 2010

Donabe cooking class report...Steam dinner

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This past weekend, I hosted my first "Donabe and Japanese Cooking Class". The theme was "Donabe steam dinner" . We cook...

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Donabe Smoked Hot Dog

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Since the article on Tasting Table came out, I've been extremely busy with all the orders and inquiries for our donabe products and coo...

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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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