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This giveaway is exclusive to Just One Cookbook Email Newsletter Subscribers!
This month, instead of giving away $50 Amazon Gift Card to two winners, I decided to give away one of my most favorite kitchen tools (probably top 3!), Microplane Premium Zester/Grater.
In Japanese cooking, we grate garlic and ginger in our food often and zest lemon or yuzu on top of food. This grater/zester is by far THE BEST one I found. I’ve been using it for close to 10 years.
You can win one of 10 Microplane Premium Zester/Graters! If you live outside of the United States, you will automatically receive $14 Amazon Gift Card or cash via PayPal. Winner(s) in the US have a choice of zester/grater or Amazon gift card.
Important Rule:
- You can enter ONLY one comment per subscriber.
- Your email entry has to match with your email address in my {Free} Email Newsletter Subscription list.
- In the comment box below, write any feedback you may have for me, any recipe request, or just say hello.
Ten (10) winners will be selected via Random.org and announced on Wednesday, April 1, 2015. This giveaway closes on Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 12 p.m. PST. The winners will be contacted via email, so please include a valid email address in the email address entry box.
Full Disclosure: This giveaway is sponsored by yours truly.
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Thank you so much for participating this giveaway! Here are the winners!
Congratulations to…
Krystle (#101), Camille (#195), Tiffany Eng (#506), ummu hani (#109), Matt (#514), Marie (#150), Dorothy (#5), Glenn Fong (#44), Joy Marish (#293), and Karina Desmond (#14)!
I’ll email you guys shortly!
I hope I win!
Read your cimment about your r and l. When that happens try spelling it. I do that sometimes when people don’t understand me. I only speak English too.
Read your comment about your r and l. When that happens try spelling it. I do that sometimes when people don’t understand me. I only speak English too. I hope it works for you.
Hi Nami, I love your fried udon recipe, so delicious!
this’ll be such a handy tool in my kitchen too!
Hi! Love your blog and recipes! Thank you so much for sharing them with us.
Keep up the good work.
I love your blog and recipes!!
I would love one of these zesters! I have a microplane but it doesn’t have a handle so that slows me down when I’m zesting citrus or ginger or garlic!
Hope I’ll win this time!
Thanks for all the great recipes!
Thanks for keeping up such a great site!
Awesome looking tool
Hi Nami!
Thank you for the opportunity to win! I love reading your blog and looking at all of the wonderful food you eat and cook!
Love your recipes
Love JUST ONE COOKBOOK
My “ojiisan” had the same problem!!!! You are not alone!!!!!
Green tea cookie recipe please!
Love the recipe..
I love this site! So many good recipes!
Love your recipes and thanks for sponsoring this give-away. Very kind of you!
That’s great! waiting here to become the winner
Hi Nami,
I stumbled upon your ecipes via FB and have been following your FB page ever since then. Appreciate your video tutorials and easy-to-follow recipes! I’m inspired by you to try to cook more Japanese food at home. Thanks again & look forward to more recipes by you!
It will be the most useful thing in my kitchen. I can even use it to grate carrots for my eye mask! 🙂
Thank you for organizing this giveaway! You are amazing!
Dear Nami, thank you for sharing various recipes which enriches my cooking experience 🙂
I enjoy seeing your posts on FB.
Love your blog. We use it for all of your japanese receives.
Woo! Love this site!
This looks pretty useful! I’m tired of mincing everything, since I don’t have a zester!
Thanks for the contest. I’ve been wanting one of those for a while. Love the recipes!
Hi! Love getting your email recipes! For me, a zester/grater is essential as I love trying to cook all kinds of cuisine. My favorite Japanese foods are ramen, teriyaki and tempura!
You are awesome! Love everything you do.
Nami, thank you for making Japanese food easy to make for people like me!
I always wanted a tool like that.
add oil! want to improve my cooking skill!
“Just One Cook Book: The best recipes for your kitchen!” =P
I love this site!
i love your stories of everyday life and your blogs from your visits home to Japan.
Hello Nami. Love all your recipes! Thank you or sharing!
Hi! Just learned this website from my friend. Your pictures are amazing. They make you want to cook those. I will try your ramen recipe first.
Love your recipes! Printing them out (old school) and trying them all the time.
Really enjoy your blog! Thank you for sharing.
Keep sharing recipes’
Hi, love your recipes and wish to see some Japanese shojin ryori recipes as well. Thx.
I grate so much in the kitchen and my two graters have gotten dull and do not work so well. Mostly I buy organic ginger and grate a bunch at a time. I place them in two RV Ice cube trays in my regular freezer so I always have organic ginger on hand. Each cube is about 1 tablespoon. Perfect for juicing or when I use it for cooking, I just let it thaw for 10 minutes or so. Thanks for your blog Nami!
Awesome grater!
Thank you so much for sharing all of these recipes to us and going out of your way to make them!
Thanks for all the great recipes, You don’t know how many people in Hawaii have eaten your meals and enjoyed them!! Mahalo’s
Love your recipes and videos
I hope I will win this, it is so nice to have one like this! Thank you.
I enjoyed your blog and your website is so beautiful and precise.
Hi Nami,
Thanks for your yummy and personable blog. This is my go to place for Japanese recipes!
Love your great recipes!
ohayu! im joyleen from the Philippines! Japanese food iss close to my ❤️❤️❤️, my Japanese roommate and friends prepares it for me. Your site is very helpful , brings back all those happy memories back at the dorm. More power to your site! More easy recipes too!
Relatively new subscriber. Love browsing the recipe directory; great directions
Thank you!
Thank you for all the delicious recipes!
Hi Nami, when I went to Japan to visit previously, I had this amazing beef bowl from Yoshinoya. I opted to have it served with a raw egg, to dip the beef and it was SO SO delicious! I’ve been thinking about it since returning to Melbourne and would love to know how to make it at home. If you do know how to cook it, please do share! 🙂
That recipe is already here (and yummy)
https://www.justonecookbook.com/recipes/gyudon/
Hi Nami, good day to you. Hope i can win it!
I always keep meaning to buy a microplane like one of these, but I never remember when I have the money. Instead, I got sidetracked with the idea of using a pedi-egg (which is a microplane with it’s own collection bin) in place of one. Because it could catch everything I grated on it. Haven’t bought that yet either! 🙂
As for grating ginger, a couple years ago, my sister bought me a pretty little ceramic fish ginger grater made in Japan. Blue and white. Very pretty thing. Easy to clean. Sees a lot of use. 🙂
I really enjoy reading your blog. The recipes are so carefully thought out, researched and tested that they are failsafe. The videos also make it very clear. I have a delightful Japanese daughter-in-law Nozomi and a cute little grandson Ibuki and I want to learn more about Japanese cuisine for them. I have cooked quite a few of your recipes. Keep up the excellent work. With very best wishes from Australia. Diana.
Look forward to receiving your comments on life and all of your great recipes.
Your website brings sunshine to my rainy day. Keep up the good work
Hi Nami
Love your blog – more recipes for fun kid friendly Japanese meals would be great
Kyla
I would like to say hello. I would love to know any recipes of your favorites using lemon zest .
I love your website and have trying to make some of your recipes that deal with sweet red bean paste. I would love to see you post a recipe on sesame balls I know it’s more of a Chinese dish but your take on it would be pretty cool!
I thoroughly enjoy your blog! Please keep it coming! 🙂
Thank you for all the wonderful and delicious recipes. Keep up the good work
Nami, you are a delight coming through my computer!
Knowledge, fresh honest enthusiastic attitude!
Hope i win!
Hi I love the recipes and step by step instructions for your recipes. The picture are always clear and nicely done. You make cooking these recipes very simple. Thank you!!!
Hi
Hello , Nami!
My family loves your food, especially the salmon. I could use the micro plane to more closely replicate your recipes.
I am a huge fan! All your recipes, how-to videos, and website have a unique and personal touch that always grabs my attention. Thank you for your time and effort! I appreciate all you do!
Thank you for easy recipes.
Giveaways are great!
Hello from Ohio! !
love your blog! I have learned a lot. Thank you!
Hi Nami,
Thanks for your great blog and contests!
My mother used to make two dishes that were simple but I don’t remember how they are made. Ojian and Tororo. Do you happen to have those recipes?
Thanks again!
Mari
Would be great for parmesan as well
It’s my favorite too, but mine is too old so it’s great if can I win a new one 🙂
Love your recipes and videos.
I use a zester all the time for limes and lemons when I’m making salads. I also use it for cheese for pastas. I enjoy all of the pretty food pics you post in your emails. 😉
Hi Nami I love your blog and look forward to receiving your emails. Your videos are great and give me confidence to try and make the recipes. I lived in Japan as a young child and again for a year in high school so love to hear about your trips too.
Thanks for enriching my life and cooking!
Hi Nami,
Would be happy if you can create delicious recipe from 虎豆 (tiger beans). Thank you.
I’ve always wanted to use one of these
Konichiwa! I love your recipes!
love your site! nice delicious recipes that are useful for my everyday cooking.
Love your recipes!
I need a new microplane 🙂
Your recipes are wonderful and videos make them look so easy to prepare.
Hi Nami, thanks for sharing your recipes. It’s been helpful for me being a newish wife and mom to try and cook for my family.
Thanks again for your great blog!
Oh dear, you did make me laugh! I love hearing the Japanese language, and I think Japanese people would be far too polite to laugh at my atrocious attempts at speaking Japanese. (Just imagine … Japanese with an Australian accent!)
Hi- I live in Japan and have been married a long time to a Japanese man but still find myself learning from your recipes and posts. Thanks so much, keep it up!
I been really interested in cooking lately and you are the first one I followed. I love your recipes and already tried cooking a few items and the results were amazing. Just want to say thanks!
great recipes!
I love this site. Thank you so much, Nami~
I also have same issue with a language dialect. Not embarrassing; we’re just unique!
Japanese dessert recipes, please!
Enjoy your blogs!
I like your recipes, simple and easy to follow.
More power to you and I hope I will win!
Howdy…love your blog and cooking methods…its really amazing…^^
Hello,
Love your website, keep up the great work!
I enjoyed your comparison of waygu beef. Hope I can have some soon.
Thank you for making me a awesome cook, I couldn’t have done it without you…
P.S. My hubby thanks you also
I love Japanese food and I’m so glad I found your blog, Nami! Recipes are great and easy to follow.
I love Justonecookbook!
Hang in there with the Ls and Rs, it’ll come to you.
Hello. I’m a fairly new subscriber. I enjoy your blog and cannot wait to try your recipes. The first one will be your banana bread.
Hi Nami! Thanks for all your recipes and videos! I am half Japanese but was always afraid to try to make Japanese food for my family. I made your Oyako Donburi recipe first and it was such a hit! Your videos and instructions make it easy to do and they taste wonderful too! So glad my mom told me about your website! 🙂
Hello! Thanks for all the great giveaways Nami!
I just love your website and have tried some salads which I and my family just love.
thank you for the wonderful recipes. i really love them 🙂
and i really would love to have one grater. thank you again 🙂
Re your email, you have my sympathy on your intermittent pronunciation problems! I have studied a whole bunch of different languages (including Japanese), but I have never attained conversational fluency in any of them.
Keep the recipes coming. Their awesome!
I am looking forward to new recipes.. What about かに玉 or Zosui? 😀
Love your blog and videos, keep it up!
lovely 🙂
Finding your website to me is like winning the jackpot!
I keep meaning to get one of those zesters as I zest lemons/lime/oranges regularly.
My kids love your spinach ohitashi!! Thank you!!
Hi Nami, I enjoy so much reading your blog. I have cooked some of your recipes but I don’t think my cooking will qualify for a photo shoot. But they taste good though. Thank you so much for sharing. I am not very familiar with Japanese ingredients. I am just starting to learn. Your have some recipes that are similar to Chinese recipes that I’ve been cooking. I come from a back ground of different cultures….Chinese, Filipino and Spanish. So, more or less I never ran short of variety of food. When I came upon your website I was so happy cause that will give me a chance to try my hands on Japanese cuisine. Thank you again.
Love your website!!
I hope I win the gift. I have been following your blog for about 2 years. I did tried your recipe but no time
to take photo and do not know how to do the link. Not so good with computer. 🙁
Hi! Thanks for the good work. I enjoy your writing as well as enthusiasm.
I speak a second language too! Sometimes it is a struggle to say or use the right words. Thank you for sharing!
Hi Nami, greetings from malaysia! I hv been following your blog for a long time and seen it progressed to what it is today. Well done!
I particularly like your Japan travel stories. In fact i went to Nishiki Restaurant in Arashiyama for their kaiseki ryori based on your review. That dining experience was one of the most memorable during my trip to Kyoto.
Thanks for all the yummy recipes and appetizing food pictures.
Love the recipes and I do in Japan. Hope to visit one day soon!!!
We love your recipes, especially the tsukemono!
Your blog post are lifely and recipe was easy to follow. Thanks for sharing every single thing.
Hi Nami! thanks for sharing your recipes. Your blog is so inspirational!. I would love to see more Japanese finger foods recipes that perfect for bento lunch box, please…thanks!
Thank you for your great recipes and videos!
Wonderful blog and love trying out the great recipes. Thanks for sharing!
hi, i made your cherry bars & were a big hit, they will be made over & over, love your recipes, thanks so much
Now that’s one tool that I still don’t have in my drawer full of kitchen gadgets. I could totally grate ginger easily when making my mom’s recipe for karinto.
I loved your blog on the club sandwich Nami. At least you have a sense of humor about it. Some people need to understand and have more patience – it lacks in today’s society. Keep up the great work! Your recipes are a-m-a-z-i-n-g!
Wanted to say Hi! Really enjoy JOC.
Hmmm… A crab sandwich might have been good too! I love that your kids were there to help.
Hi Nami,
I stumbled upon your website and loving it because the photos were so professional taken and the recipes were very precise.
Even though I have yet to try any of your recipes but I think it’ll be awesome. Just need to go and grab a few Japanese ingredients and I’ll be able to start trying soon!
I can feel you when you mentioned about struggling to speak a second language. I encounter such problems occasionally too when I just can’t pronounce certain words like the local. Anyway guess we’ll just have to buck up ya? Haha…
Thanks for sharing all these wonderful recipes and hope to see more new ones coming.
Joni
Hi,
You are indeed a generous person. Hope I will get this cos I do Japanese food most of the time thanks to your
recepies I can manage a little bit of Japanese cooking which my Sons love. So once again many thanks and hope I will win this
Cheers
Nelun
Hello! I love Japanese cuisine and your recipes. And enjoy a Japanese’s sharing her experience and life from a foreign land.
thank you for posting the nikuman recipe ^_^
Happy Cooking!
Thanks for the chance to win! Love your blog.
Hi ! love your videos!
Love your blog! Your recipes are so do-able and easy to follow.
I will win one of these prizes one day….
That does look like a really handy tool to use. Thank you!
Hi Nami!! Thanks for all the amazing recipes and sharing them all on your awesome blog!! Love it!!! 😀
I always enjoy reading you posts and trying some of the recipes, you do such a wonderful job, keep it up!
Love looking at your pics and videos, you do such a great job on your blog!
Thanks for sharing your recipes!
Thank you for sharing such lovely recipes. Cheers…..
So excited! Going to Japan in May!!!! Have been reading up on your travels to Japan. Will follow your recommendations. Thank you
Hey there Nami
Otsukaresama deshita 🙂
Thanks so much for an amazing blog – the Nikuman looks delicious so will definitely give it a try!!
A potential recipe request: Giseyaki!! ^_^
Or rather, could you explain more about it? It appears there are two versions of Giseyaki – one were you use tofu and the other were you use rice? Is that correct??
But, like I said .. a potential recipe request 🙂
Have a lovely day…
My go to blog for all food Japanese!!
Thanks for sharing such clear instructions.
Eyeing this product for the longest time already. Now a chance to own one.
I would love one of this in my kitchen!
Love the pictures of your food.
Love all your recipes!! Thank you so much for sharing them with us!
My go to website for easy to understand, authentic japanese recipes!
Thanks for sharing all the wonderful recipes. I love Japanese food.
Love your recipes!!!
This would make it so much easier to grate ginger (which I keep in the freezer).
There seems to be a lot of msg still in bottled and prepackaged food products.
Do you look for msg free alternatives in all your recipes?
Hi
Hello,
I am new to your blog but I love all the recipes you have posted. I am now a loyal followers of your fantastic food you share with us.
I love having a site to go to for Japanese recipes. I didn’t get many recipes from my mother when I was growing up and since she doesn’t live near, sometimes it is hard to get them. Plus your recipes are instantly available. Love it!
What a great website you have 🙂
Thank you for the awesome giveaway!!
Thank you the giveaways. Always enjoy your newsletter. Keep it up.
Hi there! I just wanted to say thanks again for your advise on freezing rice and for this amazing site that you have! I really like it!
merci pour votre blog
Love your blog – especially the videos!
I find your recipes interesting and special. My familyIenjoy eating Japanese food and find it expensive to eat out. So we tend to create Japanese food at home.
Hello! Love your recipes! I make your Japanese Curry often.
My family and I all love your blog Nami! Thanks for all the awesome tips and recipes!
Love your recipes!
I absolutely love your website! I got into Japanese cooking about 4 years ago, and while I know it isn’t the ONLY genre of recipes you post, your site is my go-to for any new recipe I want to try. Thank you! Everything I’ve tried so far has been delicious!
If I don’t win please tell me where to buy it. I think the microplane premium zester/grater will allow me to enjoy cooking with less pain from hand arthritis.
It’s available on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Microplane-46720-Premium-Zester-Grater/dp/B001VGS1M6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1426656906&sr=8-1&keywords=microplane+premium+classic+green
A wonderful tool to have in the kitchen! Hope I am the lucky winner.
Just watched your video on how to make pork bun. Love it! Will be making it for my family! Thanks Nami!
Great site for Japanese recipes. My mother passed recently. She was a great cook. Unfortunately I didn’t all her recipes. Your recipes are great and remind me of her.
Can you recommend a good genmai tea? I tried some a long time ago but I have no idea what brand it was but it was packaged in a pretty tin. I haven’t found any genmai tea good as that one. Thank you!
I love your recipes and I’ve used many. I would love to wing!
I want to win…..
love your blog and keep blogging 🙂
I love your giveaways!!!
Thank you for sharing such yummy recipes!
Hey there. Thanks for all the great content and the awesome giveaways. We readers all really appreciate you!
Thank you! I love your website and blog – they have been the most wonderful introduction to Japanese culture and food! Thank you also from my very appreciative husband and kids!
Thanks for sharing all these great recipes
Thank you for giving us the opportunity to win this kitchen tool. 🙂
I hope you have a good day.
I love all your recipes!
Hi Nami! How much I wanted to say thank you for all the great recipes you’ve been sharing! My family and I are big fans of Jap food and you did us a deed by showing us less frustration in all the cooking. BTW I love watching your videos on your Youtube channel. 😉
Thank you so much for sharing all your experiences and recipes. I enjoyed viewing all the beauriful pictures especially on the bento box recipes, it inspired me so much that I bought a nice bento box complete with the utensils (chopsticks, fork n spoon) and started preparing bento box lunch for my daughter everyday.
Love the site!
Have enjoyed your site and content.
Love your recipes!
Thank you for all your hard work! Please pick me to win!
Hi, i knew you first from your instagram, although i don’t really cooking for myself, but i enjoy your food pics, then when i saw your cabbage pickles, i thought i want to make some for myself, i open your website and subscribe your feeds ^_^
Hi!
I love your recipes! In fact I pin some in my Pinterest account.
More power to you!
I hope to have one of these tool….and thanks for sharing your recipes.
Thoroughly enjoyed all your recipes and videos.
Fingers crossed!
As always, thank you for your giveaway. I understand totally about your difficulty in pronouncing “L” and “R”. My sons have the same problem. They are half Japanese. Anyway, I wish I can win this grater.
A feedback? You are cute 😀
A recipe request? Yeah more “sauces”, like curry roux, and stuff like that
Saying hello? “Hello, gorgeous”
More video tutorial please. They are great!!
Hi, thanks for your blog !
Thanks for sharing your recipies!
Love your blog! (Nothing new there). The Grater looks very practical. Mine is very differently shaped, has cost me a lot of skin and belonged to my mother… It’s a good tip to look into!
Dear Just One Cookbook, I want you to know that i learned so much from you bogs. This is a great way of experiencing the japanese cuisine. Thank you for imparting to us locals yous delicious way of cooking nutritious and great tasting food via the internet.
May you blog put more smile to the faces of those who crave for something new for their palate.
Kindly continue on giving smiles to people through your blog, Have a great year ahead!
God Bless!
Diana M. Matin
Olongapo City, Philippines
Love your easy to follow recipes and the results always turn out perfect!
I tried the Wafu Hambagu and my family LOVES it! Nice change from regular hamburgers!
Hi Nami! Thank you for always sponsoring such generous giveaways, and for sharing your delicious and healthy recipes with us!
Thanks for sharing your delicious recipes.
Hi, thanks for the great recipes!! My mum is english but we live in France and she also struggles with the letter R ^^
I enjoy reading your blog and recipes 🙂
I’m an Australian. My son and his Japanese wife live in Japan. I look forward to cooking authentic Japanese food for them when they visit next. Your recipes are amazing. Thank you for making them available on the net.
Love your blog and recipes. Thank you
I love your site! I have learned a lot. Keep up the great work!
Thx, love learning about Asian food as my husband is Taiwanese!
I really enjoy your recipes and your cookbook.
This is ironic, because recently I’ve been thinking of how useful a zester would be 🙂
i love you <3 love your recipes so much, it's very simple but delicious and good health.
i hope i win this giveaways <3
best kitchen tool ever
Love your site, love your recipes, love YOU! Keep doing what you are doing!
The grater will be so useful for home cooking! :)) love your cookbook recipes!
thank you for sharing your recipes, Nami-san.
I love your work and especially the photos you put up. Great work..Keep it up
Love your blog — thanks for sharing your recipes. Love making the strawberry daifuku!
Hi!, Nami, I pray that all is well with you and your family. I love you’re sharing all of your very delicious recipes, I am so excited to have come across your site with so many great Japanese cuisine. Looking forward for the opportunity, to add to my recipe collection of so many more of your fantastic recipes. I’ve forward my entry, for the gift give away and will keep my fingers crossed. Nami, be soever bless in everything your heart desire, and always stay encouraged.
Amazing blog! I went to Japan in December and fell in love with the food and I am so glad I have found a blog that has all the recipes I love!! 🙂
Hi, really like your recipes. thank you for the giveaway!
I love Japanese food and finding your site is a blessing. I can’t wait to explore your recipes.
I participate!
And as i said before I would looove to see variation of some of your recipies but for vegetarian people like me that don’t eat nor meat nor fish nor sea food :’3
Alberthoekman@gmail.com
Love your blog. Always use it for recipes.
What a llovely thing to do. Wishing one and all good luck to own this kitchen tool.
Patricia
I love your recipes.
Hi Nami. Thank you for all your beautiful recipes, always very inspiring. I’m looking forward to try my hand at nikuman!
Your recipe is very helpful cause i love to try different japanese food
Hi Nami, thank you for all your wonderful recipes. I haven’t made all the dishes but I have a tried a few – the Japanese curry, Green Tea Latte, Coffee Jelly, Kabocha Salad … and they have all been delicious. It’s a way for us to remember our great trip to Japan a few years ago!
Love your website! 🙂
Hi, made your banana bread recipe and it was delicious. I can always count on your site for good recipes.
I’m surprised that it was used so much I was expecting a whisk or a knife lol
I just recently got into cooking Japanese and I have your cookbook and enjoy learning from you! Thanks for doing the cookbook and your website!
Your website is the one I go to whenever I cook Japanese food. Thank you for all the great recipes!
Love your recipes and easy to follow directions! Hope you pick me! 🙂
Love a ginger zoster. Too bad I live in Australia
Thanks for keeping up such a great site!
Thanks for your blog
Hello! I’ve been after a microplane for a while now, so this is such a great giveaway, thanks.
Haven’t been able to do much cooking lately but I am moving into a new house soon..can’t wait to try out lots more of your recipes.
Always enjoy your site….especially noodle dishes.
Fun to see/hear you talking on your last recipe post. Everyone should see how you prepare and cook your recipes.
Do you have a good easy recipe for shoyu pork?
Or nishime?
Thank you so much for all the recipes and showing us how to make them!
I still have a lot of trouble making dumplings wrapers, you make it seam so easy.
Thanks again for all of this though
Sandra
Thank you for the giveaway. The Microplane products are excellent and I’d love to win one.Thank you for the excellent recipes too. I would like to try more of them than we are able to.
Aloha!
Love your blog.
I am so glad I found you. It can be really difficult to find Japanese cooking instructions that aren’t drummed down for westerners. Please keep them coming.
Hi Nami,
I just want to thank you for your amazing food blog. I really enjoy cooking some of the Japanese dishes. Thanks heaps! Keep up the great work. 🙂
Hi
I just want to say it’s the same with me, coming from a Chinese speaking background. I used to have problems with sh so shrimp became stream!
One of my favourite tools. You have one of the best blogs, clear, easy to follow recipes. Thank you for all you do.
I m very happy to follow your beautiful world of cooking and discover great and delicious recipes!
Wish you a wonderful continuation!
and always the same fantastic succes!
enjoy your site…keep it up….repeats are ok….
I can completely relate to the second language problem. Swiss German. Blech. I speak and it sounds correct, but native speakers look at me blankly. It can be very frustrating.
JOC has helped me cook things I loved as a little girl. Born in Japan and raised in the US on the east coast, it was difficult to get Japanese food, other than what my mother prepared. And of course I didn’t watch and learn. I just ate. So know as an adult JOC is helping me live my culture at home. Thank you.
Ooooooh I didn’t know that kind of tool and it looks great! Thank you for the discovery Nami. 😉
Thank you for sharing all these delicious recipes, well presented and very well explained. Hats off to you!
Love your recipes!
I love your youtube channel and website. It conquered my fears of trying out japanese dishes with the perception of it being too complicated! My family loved the baked tonkatsu and ramen recipes and I have cooked them several times already. I will be trying your salmon miso with ginger rice soon!
I wish I can win… Thanks!
Your pork steamed burns was amazing, thank you! Do you think if the type of meat is change, let’s say chicken or shrimp, they would turn out good too?
This is a great item! Thanks for giving us this chance!
I would love to win this time!
Nami: You are an inspiration for the rest of us with great recipes and personal touches on everything you do!
Don’t you worry if you have a hard time once in awhile with a consonant! What really matters is the wonderful recipes. Thanks for offering a tool that will be put to constant use in my kitchen!
Hi Nami! I love JOC!! I use it all the time to find delicious Japanese recipes! Thank you for sharing!!!
Thank you so much for the great recipes!
Love your blog!
Have you ever attempted to make milk bread? That would be awesome if you put out a recipe!
Thanks for doing the giveaway! 🙂
The JOC website is amazing Nami! Thank you for all your recipes and tips!
Thanks for doing this giveaway!
My lunches (and dinners) are becoming amazing because of your recipes!
Domo arigatou
Wow, we usually use an older grater or the block. You know, the four sided one. Anywho, i made taiyaki once again, but my cooking skill was rusty over the winter…i guess i ll have to try when its easier to obtain better fruits and condiments such as apples…i ts been a rough winter, hope you re staying warmer than on the east coast! It looks like a lovely give away item. Others might have the same luck im having with an aging one. Good luck, and thank you !
Hello Nami! I love your blog, the recipes have all been delicious, and your instructions are so easy to follow.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful recipes. They take me back to my childhood favorites that unfortunately I didn’t learn how to make before my mother passed away. My family even owned a Japanese restaurant and I still didn’t learn how to cook Japanese food…I only ate it! Thanks to you it’s not too late. Love your blog and recipes…so easy to follow and so oishi.
I had an opportunity to visit my son who was living in Japan and totally fell in love with the food there. I really enjoy your blog and appreciate your recipes. I have lots of fun trying to recreate some of the incredible recipes I experienced while there. Thanks again for sharing!
Hi Nami, this is a great giveaway!!! I would LOVE to have one of these microplane zesters!! The cheese grater I have currently is not suitable for grating zests and I have not found any good ones in the shops here in Europe. I have been cutting zests as thinly as I can from the fruits with a vegetable knife and then chopping them up. Takes a lot more time and effort! But the problem is that I live outside of the US… 🙁 I Anyhow, hope I get picked!! (maybe I can use the Amazon giftcard to buy one of these microplane zesters?)
What a terrific tool! I’m intrigued.
In fifth grade, I had an Asian Indian math teacher. Sixty students moved onto sixth grade the next year all speaking math terms with an Indian accent such as “second-France” for “circumference”. Sigh! The sixth grade math teacher was rolling on the floor laughing.
Hello!
Would like to see more kid friendly bentos. I love your site!!
hello! Is it my you’re zesting for? lol
Have ALWAYS wanted one of these ! It would come in VERY handy while cooking ! Especially my ALL TIME FAVORITE FOOD …… JAPANESE of course !!
Thank you for the great recipes!
My first comment to you and hope I can win …
I love to watch your recipes 🙂
As a Spanish speaker, I also have certain words that I struggle with in English, don’t ask me to say properties or the brand Bose, Lol! !! they become Spanish words ASAP 🙂
Hi!
A food related giveaway is a nice little bonus for exploring your wonderful website..
Thank you… :O)
Love to experiment your dishes. .
Thank you for the easy to follow recipes and video.
I love your blog!
I love your recipes, the visuals and simplicity makes cooking fun and enjoyable, AND tasty!! I also try to catch what the tools you use to help me along in the process. Thank you!!! 🙂
Really enjoy your newsletters. It is so much fun to try the recipes.
Hi!
I appreciate the candid nature of your blog and the amazing asian recipes that are on it 🙂
I LOVE all your matcha recipes!! which type of matcha powder do you use/recommend??
Thanks!
Hi, I give this a shot in a way to start my morning. And I wonder if you could share with everyone, especially me a Chinese dish: creamy coconut shrimp? Thank you
My Mom is Japanese and I don’t know how to make all of her dishes… so glad I found your blog!
I love your video recipes. Thank you very much.
Great site! 🙂
I love receiving your emails and those wonderful recipes have helped me whipped up my favorite foods. Thank you and looking forward to receive more valuable recipes!
I just discovered your blog a few weeks ago. Having a Japanese mother, I know all about the L and R problem!
Hi Nami,
I grew up speaking mandarin Chinese and came to United States for college 8 years ago. Boy, don’t I get the he/she wrong. In Chinese, the he/she/it all prounced the same however in English they are not. My then boyfriend now husband used to get confused with me all the time. Also, I still count in Chinese and I noticed my friend who is Dutch and has been here for over 35 years still count numbers in Dutch. Do you count in Japanese?
Have a great weekend!
Lu
keep on blogging love your recipes so easy to follow–thank you
The grater I have SUCKS! It would be awesome to have this one.
Love your site 🙂
enjoy your cookbook and photos ! nice work !
What a convenient kitchen tool!
Please keep up the great work, Nami!
I’m a new subscriber, so I don’t have any true feedback. Looking forward to learning more on how to cook Japanese food. Thanks for the videos!
Love reading your site, I love Japanese food.
These are great tools.
I would love to win a microplane zester as I am constantly “making do” with an inferior one. Love your website and videos.
Nami
I like to learn to cook Japanese food. Your method is really simple and easy to follow.
Thanks
Connie
Hello,
I have travelled many times to Japan and the difficulty with my name for Japanese was always a source of discomfort for me for their discomfort.However we always got around it with a smile or a laugh and and short language discussion.
Thank you for sharing your story as it brought back many great memories.
Regards,
Lloyd
Hi!
Its my first time participating in the give away contest!! I live in India and love to Cook Japanese delicacies!!
Well one of my most used dish is Tamagoyaki .
I mostly cook it for my tiffin.
I use cheese as a supplement for seaweed as it can’t be found in our grocery stores 😛
So my question to you is that what else can I use instead of seaweed in the tamagoyaki?
I recently made your Japanese cheesecake and I loved it 🙂
As always, thank you for the wonderful recipes and awesome giveaways!
Thank you for sharing all of your recipes. I made your banana bread and it was so moist and delicious. This will be one of my go to recipes for overripe bananas.
Great recipes. I found you when searching for noodle recipes. Thanks for all your work.
Great recipe ideas!!
I have loved EATING sushi for years and recently decided that my love for eating should include MAKING sushi. Thanks to you and your website I am losing my fear of not knowing what to do. It is great fun to experiment and try new things!
hello nami san. thank you very much for sharing your recipes it really really helped my everyday life here in japan having a japnese husband.
thanks for the “ranguage” post 🙂
cheers!!
i love your recipes!
Love your blog, your recipes, the photos….please keep it coming!
Love your blog Nami! The last time I was in Japan (15 yrs ago) I remember the kimchi was so delicious. I can’t even eat the bottled kimchi sold here in the U.S. I thought it tasted fresher, (not as fermented) and looked more “red”. I think I was in a department store, but the bottom floor was a supermarket, and the kimchi was in a little plastic box, not a bottle. It seemed like it was sold this way in other markets as well. Is there a difference between “Japanese” kimchi and “Korean” kimchi? If so, recipe please?
Hello a microplane grater is a necessity when you want to add ginger to a recipe, because you really do not want to bite into a big piece of ginger. English is not my first language neither, so I totally understand you, my children act as my translators too, I have problems with the “th” sound it does not exist in romance languages, the “ee” sound also is problematic I pronounce it like “i” so you can imagine when I want to say a sheet of paper it comes out a little diferent!!
Thanks so much for your recipes!
Found your wonderful site searching for a easy to understand tamago recipe. Is there any way to use rice paper instead of wonton skins for shumai, etc?
Atatara e desu ne:)…..cook book wa doko ni uttemasu ka?
Love your recipes
Really enjoy reading your blog and all your amazing recipe ideas!! Keep up the good work!
More matcha recipes please.
Dear Nami san,
Greetings from Singapore.
Thanks sharing your great recipes, nice photos, good video and ha ha ha worldwide giveaway.
Gambate kudasai 🙂
Would be nice to win one.
Love this blog! Love this grater!
I love JOC!
I love your blog! I’m having so much fun learning to make Japanese food!
I love your blog!
Hello!
Do you have any Niku Dofu recipes?
Have a great day !
Love reading your blog. Always give me ideas for lunch/dinner.
Awesome site! I’m quite the novice in cooking with Asian flavors so I am SO enjoying! Thanks!
Thank you for your professionally run site! I Learn new techniques with each post.
Hi Nami! Thank you for all the great ideas and recipes you’ve shared. And thank you for this chance to win!
Hello, I come across your website and attracted by the delicious korean pan cake which I ate at one of the Korea restaurant while on holiday recently. Thank You for your sharing of so many delicious dishes. With You, it make our cooking enjoyable and interesting. Thanks….
I’m definitely buying one whether I win or not! But that would be cool. Can you do Amazake?! I know new years is far off, but I want to make it so bad!
I love all the recipes at JOC. I have tried several. One of my favorite is the Korean Pancake – it was super easy to make and very yummy.
Hi.. That looks like a really useful tool to have in my kitchen..
Love your blog!!
Love your new videos!
Winner!
Hello, I don’t have any recipe requests at this time, since you’ve done such a great job. Keep up the good work!
Being half Japanese, I love your recipes and use them often!
Hi Nami,
Thank you for sharing all of your cooking secrets with us and showing us it’s easy to make delicious Asian food. Love all of your videos! 😉
I can totally understand the problem with the language. I was born and raised in Canada but went to live in Holland for a year. Rolling R’s and the guttural sound of G’s just was beyond me as we as North Americans don’t speak that way. Most Dutch people were kind but some of them just acted like I was stupid. I chose to ignore them but it still hurt. Just keep going the way you are going – some will be kind & some won’t but that is their problem as they are missing out on knowing someone special. Love your website – look at it this way no one can mistake what you are saying.
Sorry that some of the Dutch made you feel that way. Hope you don’t think to bad of us all.
And yes we have a lot of R’s en G’s in our words. It sounds a bit like a bear that grrrrrr’s
Groetjes / Greetings Tessa
Looks like it would get a lot of use in my kitchen!
Thanks for sharing all your recipes!
Great recipes!
Hi Nami. Please don’t apologize for your difficulty pronouncing L and R words. I admire the way you have mastered the English language. I wish I could do as well with Japanese.
I really love your recipes!!
Hello, I really enjoy your blog and recipes.
Love your very descriptive colorful recipes! I have tried some but was intrigued especially by your Udon recipe & may attempt to make fresh Udon someday! I also want to try your Kim Chee recipe too!
I love simple recipes that you create.Thanks for the recipes!!!!
FUNNY blog!
My wife is Japanese…….I love it when she says “election day” 🙂
Thank you for your recipes. I am working on expanding my Asian cooking. I love the simple instructions, lovely presentation and flavors you present. I am growing more of my ingredients this year.
I continue to enjoy your blog!
The older I get, the more I miss home cooking!
Been wanting one of these for a long time. Hope I win one. Love your email. .please keep them coming.
I love your stories
I love these.
I love your recipes and your beautiful presentations. I find you and your family quite charming!
Love japanese food!!
I love your recepice and your blog. Greetings from the Netherlands
Crossing my fingers! Hope I win.
Love your site! I enjoy Japanese food so much and prior to finding your site, the recipes scared me so much to make and any attempts to make failed miserably. I am now proud to say, with the help of your recipes and website tips, that I make your recipes at least twice a week to raves from my family. My son goes to your site and prints out recipes for me to make all the time! Keep it up and thank you !
I love your give-aways!
I subscribed to your newsletter because I wanted to learn how to cook Japanese food. Thank you for the recipes. You make them look so easy.
I made your onsen eggs and they were a huge hit!
I love your newsletters! I recently made your Oyakodomburi for my family and they loved it! Thank you!!
Hi Nami-san!
I love your recipes!! Keep them coming and thank you for being an essential and authentic resource for Japanese cooking! It’s greatly appreciated!
Great blog
handy tool
I love learning how to cook my Mitsuwa favorites!
I l-o-v-e Microplane products!!! So thrilled that you are featuring this product and offering an opportunity to add another piece to my kitchen tools!
I really enjoy your recipes and of course trying them out!
Would love a new zester!
Your recipes are fabulous and very easy to follow. Thank you!
The grater looks amazing. I look forward to using it while trying out one of your recipes. I have a neighbor from Denmark and his name has a guttural ‘r’ in it. He insists that no American can say it properly. I try, though!
thank you for the wonderful recipes.
Love your blog..I’m inspired!!
I would love to see some recipes for pressed sushi. I love the history of sushi and it’s making and how it has transformed from a way to preserve fish to a work of art.
I love your website, and can’t wait to buy your book!
Morning Nami!
Don’t you worry about how you pronounce your words.
People living in the country all their lives, have trouble pronouncing words properly and they have no excuse.
Have a Joyful Day :~D
Charlie
Congratulations for your blog, I love it!
Enjoy your blog and recipes! Thank you very much.
I really enjoying reading the content on your site! 🙂
love your recipes!
Great blog. Always interesting.
Thank you. This will be grate kitchen tool to own.
Love your recipes!
I love your blog and recipes.
I’m not good in cooking but I’m glad that I found your recipes. It was easy to understand and learn for someone like me.
Thank you.
Love your blog , I’ve tried some of your recipes and the were very good. My husband wants me to make Chahan, I’m looking for a good Chahan recipe, tried a few that I found online but none were good.
I hope I win!
So I made your banana bread recipe recently and it turned out great! I would love to see more of your dessert recipes. It was easy to follow and dummy proof for someone like me who’s a novice in cooking.
And keep the up the great work! I love your videos and image heavy recipes. They really help me know if I’m cooking the recipe correctly.
Hi Nami. Thank you for the great blog! どもありがとうございました！
Keep those recipes coming! I want to be able to cook the foods of my heritage!
Hi!
I would like to have tips and recipes about what to do with Momordica charantia (bitter melon).
Love your books/n/blogs!
Karoline
This is one of the best kitchen tools ever!
your recipes are amaZIng
enjoy your receipts
I love your blog and love all your recipes! I also really enjoy reading your travel blog. I will refer to it next time I go to Japan. Keep up the good work!
My Grandmother is Japanese and she is the cutest!! I love how she pronounces English words, it makes her even cuter. Love reading your blog, especially when you go to Japan!
Love your website! Just made the chicken meatballs – delicious! I like how your recipes are easy and delicious and the written recipe, photos and video make it very simple to prepare. Thank you!
Hi Nami! Thank you for sponsoring this giveaway. Love your blog and recipes!
Hello Nami!
Just wanted to say how much I enjoy looking at all your recipes. They look soo yummy! I already tried your wafu hambagu and it was delicious! Looking forward to trying more.
<3!!!
JOC is the reason why I learned how to cook. Simple directions and pictures made it easy to follow. Thank you for inspiring me…my husband thanks you too! 🙂
great recipes! i like the website it give me a lot of inspirations!
My family and I just loves Japanese food and your website is the best, I’ve learned so much from you. Thank you Nami 🙂 !
Nami, your recipes are simply amazing! Keep up the good work!! 🙂
Loved the yakibuta recipe
Great stuff! I look forward to your recipes 🙂
Nope I get ons, right now I’m using the dull part of a knife for my grating
Hope I get one* sorry my powers out so I have to type on my phone.
Another tough one – clown/crown 🙂
Don’t usually enter these giveaways, but what a useful prize! Love your club sandwich story!
IT look very good
Thank you for offering this giveaway.
Maybe I’ll get lucky this time!
I agree, Nami, a hand grater is one of the most kitchen tools needed in any types of cooking. Do you have a list of Kitchen tools that you use, and recommend for others to have on hand? Maybe you should do a special edition on equipment to have and use.
I love your recipes and would love to see Sata Andagi on here one day
Thanks for your great recipes:) do you have vegetarian recipe options for the steamed buns and gyoza? Thanks again!
If I win, you could ship it to me to Phoenix! 🙂
Love your recipes! They are so easy to follow!
Love the blog!
I love your newsletter and blog! The giveaways are just a bonus.
Thanks for hosting such a wonderful giveaway.
Love your recipes and you Nami! Thanks
Oh yay! I’ve been wanting one of these. I would still really love to see a series about the kitchen tools you use, I love watching how efficient your kitchen seems in the videos! 🙂
We enjoyed your Slow Cooked Chicken Wings last night. It was first time for the recipe and first time for the Instant Pot. Love them both.
I enjoy your blog! You are doing a great job!
I especially enjoy simple recipe for everyday dinner.
I use ginger a lot, so this tool would be very handy!
I love how you keep us posted about your daily events, I have a hard time using the W I say warsh and Warshington. I’m made fun of by close friends and my kids. I’m originally from Central Illinois lived there most of my life until I was 29 then moved to Washington State. That’s was always fun when I had to say the name of the State. Thank you for sharing your recipes, this is great for cooking.
Good recipes. Keep up the great work. Thanks.
Hello~!
I am truly grateful for your wonderful blog, video and receipes. You have made me discover the joy of cooking Japanese food. Years ago when I was a language student in China I had a Japanese room mate. I enjoyed her home / student dorm cooking very much. Now I have a change to learn cooking with your help. I just have one request: please do not change. Do not get more sophisticated, more professional, more “top chef” . Your down-to-earth, imperfect manner is the reason why I like your blog so much.
I love you blog! 🙂
Hi Nami. Love your recipes and always look forward to your newsletter
Keep up the great work, not just good
Just what I need.
I would love to win this one Nami. I have been looking for this I don’t know how long! But thanks for the link too, I now know where to buy 🙂
Hi Nami, thank you so much for sharing yummy Japanese food recipes! and I love reading your blogs as well. <3 Have a good one.
Hello & Happy Thursday! I’m looking forward to what the future holds for justonecookbook dot com. I love all the recipes you have been posting. I come from an asian family as well. and most of our cooking has been a long complex process. I very much enjoy your recipes because it is easy to follow. This pretty much was my fear, messing up on one step and your whole recipe will be a disaster. So thank you and thanks for hosting many giveaways.
I continue to enjoy your superb guidance in educating me on Japanese cuisine.
I have learned over the years a number of Okinawan and Philippine dishes but have greatly increased my knowledge base by following your suggestions.
Thank you!
Mick
Your recipes inspire me to cook Japanese food! Love your blogs =)
In ten days, I’m cooking a Japanese dinner for 11 people. And I’m using your wonderful recipes. Thank you so much for taking your time to give us this wonderful blog. Warmly, Beth
I love your recipes. Don’t worry about the word walk everyone around here pronounces it ‘wok’ 😉
All of your recipes are always SUPER delicious!
I rrike omiyages from Nihon!
Hey Nami! For a college kid cooking for herself, JOC has helped me tremendously! So thanks for all the great recipes! My most recent attempt at one of your recipes is the green tea souffle 🙂
I have the same issues on pronunciation. I only spoke Japanese until age 5 and now I speak mostly English, but have a bit of difficulty with words such as “club”. I have to say it slow and be thinking of the correct Amerika-jin pronunciation at the same time.
I want one!!
I love your blog. Keep up the good work.
What a GREAT prize, I hope I win. I love your recipes! I am going to try to make the chawanmushi recipe you posted, I haven’t had that since I was little (that was a very long time ago). I loved reading your crab sandwich story. Keep up the great work!
Love your website!
Hi Nami,
I would love to have one of these graters. Normally when I use one of this type there ends up being a little meat in the recipe off of my knuckles. LOL. Sometimes I don’t pay as much attention as I should. I noticed that the winners will be announced on April 1. Should I believe it if I get a notification email or is that an April fools joke? Talk to you soon Nami and thank you for your wonderful recipes and website.
Allen
Love your comments and tips
I love your recipes! Keep up the great work and thanks for the giveaway!
Hello! Love the recipes! Yummy!
Your posts always brighten my day. Thank you.
Out of all my kitchen tools, I still don’t have one of these! Hope I win one!
Just started cooking Korean food at 73 and your Kimchi and Rice is the best.
I love receiving a new recipe every day and I have tried many and really enjoyed them I like hearing about your family and your trips .it’s like hearing from a friend. Thank you.
HI, Just started cooking at 73 so still a few years left, your Kimchi and Rice is the best ever.
These are just the type of Japanese recipes I’ve been looking for…easy and yummy to eat…thank you!
Love the recipes!
I just found your website and LOVE it! Also haven’t had a microplane grater since I moved last year, and I definitely hope to win one. XD
Thanks!!
Hi Nami
Now this is one kitchen tool I would love win. Thank you for sharing all your personal stories.
I love your recipes.
I love your recipes!!
Japanese spaghetti
How fun!
This will be useful for grating lemon n ginger…
Hello! I struggle a lot with the intonation in Japanese!
Hi Nami! Thank-you for posting all of your awesome recipes 🙂
Love reading your blog, thanks!
Hi Nami,
So happy to receive Just One Cookbook subscription. Excited to learn more and make wonderful dishes inspired by you. Thanks.
Beth
Love your commentary and recipes — Thanks!! Keeping my fingers and toes crossed I am a giveaway
winner!!
Thank you!
Hello,
I would love to win the zester!
Thanks for sharing your recipes! Love them.
Enjoy your recipes and humor!
Love your blog and recipes.
Love how approachable and simple your recipes are, Nami!
Thank you for all your recipes!!
Great, easy to understand instructions.. keep up the excellent work!
It’s so hard to find a decent grater these days! You seemed to have picked the right one! Cheers from UK! Xx
I love your recipes. Keep up the good work
I love the recipes, photos, and instructions. Joc is one of my favorite food sites! Next recipe I’m going to try is nikuman and takoyaki!
Love your recipes, its easy to follow and always turn out well. Im a horrible cook but my husband loves all the food that i have prepared following your recipe. Would be great to see more japanese sweets ( eg dango, sweet cakes) recipe Though!
Hello! I love your blog! All your recipes are delicious!
I really enjoy your newsletter and your website.
Thank-you!
Hi! 🙂
I wouldn’t worry too much about about your accent. We all have our quirks. Besides, I think the Japanese accent is adorable! 🙂
My hubby and I love Japanese Cuisine. This site is really helpful.
Hi! I love your pictures and recipes! Some Chinese people also cannot tell the difference between the l and r sound, especially in the word “world”. I like the story you wrote about the club sandwich 🙂
Thanks for the giveaway
I love your recipes! You always make me want to get up and start making your food! Thank you for sharing these delicious recipes!
What a neat zester. If I give you my when in the USA mailing address I would love to have that. And your work at recipes is awesome always. I look forward to using them to teach Japanese cooking to a friend moving to JAPAN.
I think it would be “grate” to get a zester!
Domo arigato gozaimasu!
I love your recipes
Hello! Thanks for sharing your recipes! After trying some out, they taste so yummy!
Hi Nami-san,
It surely looks like a great tool to have.
Love your blog & recipes. Just to let you know that some recipes in print form are incomplete (ex. Yakiudon recipe). Ha ha… as for pronouncing words with L and/or R, I know exactly what you are talking about. Take care and keep up the great work! Jun
I get hungry just reading your blog!
I enjoy your recipes!
There’s always something interesting on your blog, either contest or recipe. This grater looks like it would be so helpful and quick to use.
Hello Nami, I recently came to know of Just One Cookbook and already started to enjoy your recipes and looking forward to more.
Cheers!
I love the different recipes you have, I’ve branched out and try something new with my family.
Love you and your site and your recipes! Look forward to seeing you in more interactive videos! (Don’t sweat the “r and l” thing! LOL!)
Rotsa Ruck!
Hi Nami, I look forward to your blog daily. It was never boring at all since I am learning from your recipes and it helps a lot! ☺ Hope I am lucky this time ☺
I love your recipes and the beautiful presentation!
i like your recipe
Hope i’ll win!
Hi Nami, Thank you for always sharing with us your appetising and yummy recipes. My family and I love it very much. I hope to win.
Best regards,
Sim Sim
Hope that i can win this
Thank you for all your wonderful recipes. I always look forward to reading your blog. It’s a pleasure.
Hello
Love your recipes!
Hi Nami! I just wanna said that ur such an inspiration for my & i don’t just sayit for the contest, no to long ago i wanned to lean dumplings… And some how ur videos show up in Youtube after that i spend hours watching your videos and then i move yo your website! And i have to said i am very please with your recipes, my fist recipe yours i made were harumaki? I think is spell like that! They were amazing!!! I master all ready the dough for gyoza’s! Thank you soo so much for the quality of your recipes,time & information! I think every one here agree with me!! You are awesome!! I am your fan! Cheers from a spanish chef living in Canada!
upsss sorry for the spelling… I can’t stand my autocorrector! And of course my spanglish
Excellent job……..love cooking your recipes and so far all have turned out. Thank you!
Love your recipes! So Envious of your work!
I love reading your post! Thanks for being the added personal touch in sharing your life (not just your recipes) with us! 🙂 Looking forward to hearing from you again 🙂
Thank you for a good website where I can easily find good Japanese recipes.
I REALLY LOVE YOUR SITE. I GREW UP IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. MY PARENTS GREW UP IN ARKANSAS SO I WAS RAISED MAINLY ON SOUTHERN FOODS. LUCKLY MY FAMILY HAD VERY MANY FRIENDS FROM OTHER ETHNIC BACKGROUNDS SO WE ALSO WERE EXPOSED TO ALOT OF OTHER TYPES OF FOOD. WE HAD JAPENESE, CHINESE, KOREAN, HAWAIIAN, MEXICAN, GERMAN, ITALIAN, FRENCH, SWEDISH, ENGLISH, SCOTTISH, IRISH AND SOUL FOODS.
I COUNT MYSELF LUCKY TO HAVE BEEN EXPOSED TO SO MANY CULTURES GROWING UP.
TALK ABOUT MAKING MISTAKES I JUST NOTICED WHEN I HIT THE SUBMIT BUTTON THAT I MISSPELLED JAPANESE. I FEEL SO DUMB. PLEASE FORGIVE ME.
Hello Nami,
Love your giveaways: )
Hi Nami,
Love, love, love your recipes!
Love your videos!
Well done on your website, please post takoyaki receipe
Thank you
Hi! First timer here! I’ve been subscribed to your newsletter for about a month now and I love it. I am Spanish but English is my second language by choice and let me tell you I can relate 100% to your L-R story. I love to cook (asian food is one of my favourites to do so) and just because I live in Spain but I read and search stuff online in English (because there’s so much more information) I’m never able to enter any giveaways for being a non US resident, so let me tell you thank you thank you thank you for thinking of us.
Looking forward to the next recipe
Hi Nami, I learn many new dishes from yr blog. The clear step by step photos is a great help. The dishes you feature are easy to prepare and suits kids taste. Thanks for sharing your many wonderful recipes.
We love your yaki udon recipe!
my first comment to you n hope i win 😉
I am from Brasil, and I love Japanese food, which I am so grateful for your kindness on sending me an update recipes of lovely oriental meals, thank you kindly my friend!
It would be nice to be chosen to receive this gift, definitely a great accomplishment to my kitchen tools!
Sincerely, Debbie!
Hello Nami. I recently came across you blog and absolutely love it. I tried beef gyudon the other night and my family loved it! Love your recipes and videos they are made so that people like me can follow and cook haha. Thank you so much!
I am from Brasil, and I love Japanese food, which I am so grateful for your kindness on sending me an update recipes of lovely oriental meals, thank you kindly my friend!
As a Brazilian speaking person, I am often making some mistakes with the English language, I know how you feel, but, the thing is, never give up!!!
It would be nice to be chosen to receive this gift, definitely a great accomplishment to my kitchen tools!
Sincerely, Debbie
That would be a super handy kitchen tool. Thanks for the great recipes.
I look forward to learning how to make home cook Japanese meals for myself with your recipes.
I already have a microplane and LOVE it! But I would love to gift one to a friend!
Do you think you could show how to make melon pan? I love your videos so much and they definitely help me a lot. <3
Love your blog and recipes!
Hello, I like your cooking method. It simple and easy. Hope to see more new recipes from you.
I love your recipes! I am vegetarian so I’d appreciate vegetarian recipes. Thanks!
My mom moved back to the states when she was 13 (she lived in Japan from 6 months till 13), and even she has trouble sometimes. Having grown up here, I lived in Japan for 5 years and know the pain of not being a native language speaker personally.
Love your recipes and can’t wait to try more! 😀
Being bilingual is a great enviable skill; don’t worry about the L and R thing. People need to be more patient. But it would be fun to hear you say Hilarious!
I love you site and look through your recipes almost daily. My fiance loves asian food, so I’m always sifting through your recipe index trying to find new things to cook for him. 🙂
Hi! Love your recipes 🙂
More miso recipes?
Hello. Thanks for all the wonderful Japanese recipes and videos. Watching you prepare them makes me brave enough to try many of them myself! I understand your challenge with the L and R. My mother is Japanese, and I didn’t realize this was such a challenge for her until I read the first letter she wrote to me when I went away to college! Reading her letter was also the first time I was really homesick, because I realized how much I missed her. 🙂
Been wanting to get one of these for awhile! I’m wishing myself luck!
As a half japanese person living in the US I really appreciate your blog (my mom loves fact that I’m cooking a Japanese food again too!!)
Waiting for the dough to rise. Can’t wait to taste it 🙂
I enjoy your blog!
I love your column and your stories. I look forward to every one. Keep up the good work.
I work at Shio Japanese Restaurant,,I have ever been in Tokyo,1989,,that is why I love Japanese food,,,and want to know the recipe of Japanese food
Oh pick me, pick me =).
currently living in Fukuoka, but will (sadly) be returning to the US in April. I know I’ll be homesick so I’ll be sure to use your recipes to make me feel like I’m in Japan again 😛
Hi, Nami! I love all your recipes, especially for sauces. I grew up eating “convenience” sauces from the market. But, now I live in an area where I can’t get them. I could buy them on-line. But making them from scratch is much more satisfying and so easy! I would never have guessed! Thanks so much!
My mouth was literally watering as I was reading the yaki udon recipe. Can’t wait to try it. Thanks.
Love you on youtube and my JOC binder is totally full and need to buy another binder for JOC recipes.
Thanks for your wonderful recipes.
Love your recipes
Nami, I really enjoy your site. SO FUN & EASY with your step-by-step video . Your recipe is always delicious !!
Nami, I really enjoy your site. SO FUN & EASY with your step-by-step video . Your recipe is always delicious !!
Keep up your good work. GAMBATE, ney !
I just tried Grade A sashimi from Whole Foods and it is worse than raw fish! (As a kid, I’ve always enjoyed marinating meats and fishes – now I’m vegetarian, so they’re simply mere memories) . I love lemon zest – yaya!
It’s my go to website when I want to make Japanese food for my kids.
I have started making shio koji. It tastes great on everything! Thanks for the recipe and demo. Great blog. Don’t worry about the R and L pronunciation. Plenty of Irish people can’t pronounce TH correctly and plenty more British people have dodgy R pronunciation ….just listen to some British people saying Bread….sounds like bwead!!
Hi Nami,
Thank you for sharing recipes. I like your website most as it the your reipes are healthy and you make each dish so simple with the video guide.
Thank you and keep up thegood work!
Best wishes
Jenny
Great website Nami!
Thank you very much for all your wonderful recipes, long to do list for me to try out.
My mom arrived in the US in ’53. A US citizen 60 yrs never lost her accent. I have thousands of similar memories of mispronounced words. Today I find comfort & smile in the memories. One in particular was opening her freezer to find the words “Frank Steaks” written on the white butcher paper. I said, “Who’s Frank? And why is his steak in your freezer?” She said, “No! No! frank steak, frank steak” (curling the R). I laughed out loud! “Oh! flank steak!” LOL
Hi! I love the site. Keep up the great work. 🙂
I use your recipes all the time. Thank you for sharing.
This would be a handy tool to have in my kitchen. Love your recipes!
Your recipes and videos bring me back to my expat days in Japan. The cute accent, the polite and easy presentation, delicious fresh and easy recipes and the best kitchen aid can only be found in Japan. In Australia I miss the thinly sliced precut meats that I can just throw in the wok, wagyu and oily fish. In Japan I had to tell everyone my daughter’s name is Crarissu instead of Clarisse. Otherwise I get…eh? Mo ichido onegaishimas. Chotto muzukashi neh?
Thank you for sharing your recipes! Love it!
Just love your site….visiting Japan is on my “bucket” list. I plan on using your web site as my travel planner.
Aloha
I like your One Cookbook, My daughter-in-law, who is Japanese recommended you as I like to cook Japanese as well as Korean and also Chinese. I have just learned to make my own Kimchi and it was with her help.
Thanks a lot for your recipes
Grandpa Lubie
Great recipes! Reminds me of home.
Love your recipes
Hello! I love your site btw =)
I would love to know how to make a Konbu filling for a rice ball. When i look to buy them in the store, they always have MSG in it =(.
Thank you!
Kristin
I would love one of these zesters. I just used a regular grater for my gingers and citrus…
I looooooove your recipes!!! THANKS!!!
I am new to your site but already have made several dishes. I am trying to learn Japanese cooking for my oldest grandson. He wants to eat the food of his heritage and I never learned from my ex-mother-in-law. Your easy recipes and clear instructions have made this possible. Thank You!!
My mother is Japanese and has lived in America for 60 years. Still has trouble with the “L” and “R” sounds.
Her accent is what makes her so endearing! Same for you- don’t change!
Thank you, Nami. Your recipes really help me starting my new life in Japan (I’m Indonesian married to Japanese man).
To be born in the US and grow up in a second language home. My English can still be found to miss points of pronunciation. I had even gotten people to complain that I have an accent. For you not alone, regardless if you are not born or born in this English speaking country.Don’t lose confident yet, keeping speaking English and no time you will find yourselves improving and speaking it confidently.
Thanks for the giveaway! Love your blog, keep up the good work 🙂
I love ur lovely post.
Keep it up. Cheers
This website is so much fun! I get to make delicious dishes quickly! And I love your stories! I speak Spanglish, too… LOL! I am originally from L.A. Native tongue is English. And L. A. has some cute, Spanish sounding words.. but they do not exist. Sometimes, now that I live in The South – US, not only remembering my Spanish, but using correct Spanish words. (Parque el carro – for: Park the car.) That is not the word for park! Epic Southern California Fail! Have a great spring!
I made the tempura following your directions. Good job came out perfectly, thanks.
Saying hello and thank you so much for the great videos. This is a pretty cool giveaway!
I love all of your recipes!!
I love to eat sushi!! Please have more recipe for sushi!
I would love to win this item! I would be very surprised and happy!
A recipe for homemade rice crackers/senbei!
Thank you for your travel blog and great recipes. Visited Hokkaido last month.
I WON ….YAY !! I’d like the Microplane Premium Zester. Thank You So Much !!! I’ll put it to Good Use !!!