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October 2015 Email Subscriber Giveaway (Worldwide) (Closed)

2015 September Subscriber Giveaway

This giveaway is exclusive to Just One Cookbook Email Newsletter Subscribers!

Thank you so much for subscribing to my newsletters to stay in touch with my blog!  As a small token of my appreciation, I host a monthly giveaway just for my dearest subscribers.

This month I’m giving away two (2) $50 Amazon Gift Cards (or cash via Paypal) and the winners will also receive a copy of my e-Book, Just One Cookbook – Essential Japanese Recipes.

Important Rule:

  • You can enter ONLY one comment per subscriber.
  • Your email entry has to match with your email address in my Email Newsletter Subscription mailing list.
  • In the comment box below, write any feedback you may have for me, any recipe request, or just say hello. 🙂

This giveaway closes on Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 12 p.m. PST and is open to participants worldwide (everyone!).

Two (2) winners will be selected via Random.org and contacted via email, so please include a valid email address in the email address entry box (please double check your spelling!).  The winners are required to respond within 72 hours to claim the prize.

Full Disclosure: This giveaway is sponsored by yours truly.

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Thank you for participating this giveaway!  The winners are….

October Email Winners

Congratulations Staci (#489) and Laura Benthall (#380)!  I’ll email you shortly.  Thank you everyone!

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  14. Nilda Molina

    I’m so very happy with all your recipes! Thank you for posting them with videos & writing a cookbook. For years I’ve searched & searched for recipes of my favorite Japanese dishes but have not found anything so user friendly as yours.

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  22. Mika Ella Manalo

    Hi there! Your page is always at the top of my newsfeed list. I love your recipes because most of them are simple but always a crowd pleaser. I’ve tried two of your recipes so far: baked croquette and Japanese Apple salad. I absolutely loved them, especially the healthier alternative for the croquette, and so did the people who ate them! I would like to try your udon recipes next, but I’m having a difficult time trying to find the ingredients for the broth in my local Asian grocery. I might have to order them online if I don’t have any luck the next time I go back to shop. Thank you very much for sharing your recipes. It’s inspiring that even with being a mother and wife for your family, you still have the time to make delicious food for them.

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  24. Lilian Chang

    I am a new “follower”. Thank you for your detailed instructions in the recipes you shared. I enjoyed just reading them. So far, I have not tried any, but will plan to start after my daughter completes her exams. It will be a good bonding activity for us. Just One Cookbook has everything I need to know about cooking, from recipes to knowing the pantry, and tools we need. Thank you again for all the effort.

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  32. I’ve been following JOC ever since I discovered it last year. I lived with a Japanese family in Kyoto for a few months and grew to love home-cooked Japanese food. JOC makes it easy to replicate those dishes back home in California. Thanks so much for sharing your wonderful recipes and videos with us!

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  34. Allison

    I just want to say thank you for all your hard work and that I love your recipes. I’m a quarter Japanese and my Grandmother passed away before I was really old enough to get interested in cooking, so I wasn’t able to learn from her. Thanks to you I’m able to make my favorites that she made for me!

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  37. Breanna

    I love your blog and especially love your recipes! I am so nearly-obsessed with the Japanese culture and especially Japanese food, so your blog is my absolute fave and provides such an interesting insight that I just can’t get enough of! Congrats on your newly remodeled kitchen, I’m super jealous!!!!

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  41. Dawn

    Hi Nami! Thank you for running such a delightful blog and for organizing these contests. I would like to know more about misozuke or little side dishes if possible! Have a wonderful week with your new kitchen.

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  57. Lucila

    Hi,Nami I’ m Lucy and was glad I found recipes made in Japan. I love Japanese foods and tried your Tereyaki Salmon and everybody just loves it.Thank you and more power to you!

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  58. Tina

    My toddler likes all the recipes I’ve tired here so far, chicken katsu, korokke, and recipes from the bento series. I would love it if you have more toddler finger food friendly type recipes. It makes my happy to see my toddler eating so happily, thanks to you. What type of foods did you like to make when your kids were a toddler?

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  64. Pam

    Hi there Nami,

    I was following you, your bloc, newsletter subscriptions for quite sometime and have re-created lots of your recipes… They were really really lovely, taste awesome… I’ve selected a few of your easy recipes to teach my food technology classes, my students really enjoyed them… keep going! , we’ll always cheer for you.

    Little tap on the back from Thailand 😀

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  68. I’m so glad to have come across your specialty food website as my son-in-law is half Japanese and so my 2 grandsons love Japanese food. My daughter makes the typical and basic Japanese dishes but I hope to find some special recipes here to make and surprise them.

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  69. elaine

    I love your recipes. My husband is Japanese and until now – 25+ years since we got married – I haven’t really bothered with Japanese cooking. Now that I’ve found your website, I’m excited about trying authentic Japanese recipes. And my husband agrees that the results are close to what he grew up with – and that’s a huge compliment from someone who loves their food as much as he does! Thanks for sharing with us!

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  70. Yuliany

    Hi Nami, I really love your websites. When I’m in US, I relied on your recipes to cook for my family and they love it. Wish you all the best and hopefully Just One Cookbook can be developed more

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  75. Karen De Lima

    After visiting Japan this year you have made possible the opportunity for me to cook some delicious japanese recipes at home. For this I’ll always be grateful. Oh and if I win this cards I will buy some japanese stuff with it 🙂

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  80. Bryon Gliem

    l’ve always wanted to learn cooking Asian or Oriental food, you have come the closest in my opinion of true, honest, down to earth realistic recipes and the process involved. Just recently a retired oriental woman move

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  86. Olivia Choe

    I always enjoy your recipe and food styling. I like your ways of cooking that result of delicious food in simple way. I really love love your Japanese food recipe because I always wonder of it. You provide exactly what I want to know. That is just simply amazing. Thank you all the time~!!! (o^^o)

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  90. Stephanie

    I just subscribed a few months ago. Your videos and website inspired me. I love Japanese food and want to start cooking it myself. This will be the just one cookbook I’ll use.
    Thanks Nami!

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  97. Chelsea Johnson

    I love your recipes! The only thing I could wish for would be more gluten free recipes, but I know they’re hard if you aren’t experienced, and I’m pretty good at adapting, so I’m really not complaining, just wishful thinking!

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  99. Priscilla K

    Hi! I lovee Japanese cuisines and i was so excited that i stumbled upon your videos! Good videos by the way! Easy to watch and good length! Hope you can share some videos about Japanese swiss roll. Thank you, Naomi! Cheerios!

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  100. Darryl Simpson

    About 20 years ago, my family and I billeted 2 Japanese student sisters in our home in Australia. Since then we were hooked on Japanese food and culture. my wife and I have kept in touch with Misako and Yuko and have visited them in Japan twice since and plan on going again. We love everything Japanese!

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  101. Sylvia

    I’m taking my first trip to Japan (Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto) this coming spring, and poring through your blog has been a constant source of foodspiration and info these past few weeks. Thank you!

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  105. Pauline

    Thank you for always an effort to sound cheerful and positive in your updates and sharing of recipes. Your videos are well done – easy to follow and so beautiful to look at. The Zen feeling permeates everywhere; simply love it and keep up the good work!! ????????????????

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  110. Sarah

    Hi Nami,

    I just wanted to let you know that I absolutely adore your recipes and your site in general. I’ve missed Japanese food soooo much since I finished teaching there last year.

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  115. Aileen

    Hi Nami,

    Thank you so much for your blog — I grew up eating Japanese food (my mother is Japanese) and I have always loved it. I left Japan when I was 6 so I did not have a chance to learn enough kanji to be able to read the recipes in Japanese cookbooks. I’m so glad that I found your blog as now I can prepare many of the dishes that I’ve always loved but could never make on my own!

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  129. Sandy H.

    I really appreciate your healthy and easy to follow recipes. You really do a good job, and your thoughtful efforts show through, all the while you are serving your family as a wife and mom.
    Keep up the good work!!!

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  147. Judy Yapell

    Your site has the best recipes !!!I have enjoyed everyone of them I have made. The instructions are very clear and easy to follow. I dearly love Japanese food. Now with your help I can make it at home. My closest Japanese restaurant is 123 miles south of my town. So it is a real treat. Thank you so much for your website.
    Sincerely;

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  149. Hey Nami! I recently discovered your blog and I totally love your recipes and how you communicate them with us all!

    I’m a “hafu”, too, (Greek-Japanese) and I’ve already tried some of your recipes. They are so “natsukashii” (nostalgic) for me!

    Thanks for all this! Have a great day! Greetings from Athens, Greece! Yoroshiku onegai shimasu!

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  154. Laura

    Nami I loved Japanese food all my life, but its preparation was a complete secret to me. You taught me more than you know, and made me and my daughters VERY HAPPY. Now I know that if I ever go to Japan, I will not be a rookie stranger. at a supermarket or a restaurant. Thank you for making me so happy and teach me so much!

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  156. Sandra Gauvreau

    I love your recipes and videos!

    Piroshiki (Japanese style w/ harusame and ground meat), please! I can’t find this at any restaurant, not even at yoshoku places. (^_^)

    And maybe the delicious twice baked sweet potato dessert? My mother used to bake in, mix in cream,, etc, put it back on the potato skin, brush it with egg, and rebate. I think some people put kurogoma to garnish. So delicious in cold weather. (^_^)

    [My shin-issei mother (from Chiba-ken) passed last year and these were two of my favorite things that she would cook.]

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  159. I am a sansei, not a cook, but I love your recipes and videos. Working full time does not leave me with much energy to cook either. Your recipes and videos make it seem so simple. I have tried a few of them and it is inspiring me to create great “homemade” meals! Thank you!

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  170. Eileen Makaea

    Nami, I enjoy your recipe presentations and look forward to your emails.

    Would love to see some Japanese recipes using instant pot pressure cooker. Examples, nishime, konbu maki.

    Thank you.
    Eileen Makaea

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  171. ingrid

    amazing your recipes! is there a recipe for wasabi – cucumbers – sugar? I got an recipe from the community in Brasil which is very good but also too sweet. 200g sugar for 1 kg cucumbers and you let it some days rast7ng in the fridge. I also would like to know how much is then a portion and if you could prepare it with other veggies, and if so…with which ones. Thank you so much for having the opportunity to prepare some of your recipes!

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  175. Karin

    I love your sesame seed cookie recipe. Also with pretty much all your recipes I love the videos you post with the recipes as well. It really helps when one is not sure of how to exactly complete a step of the recipe.

    Keep on doing the good work!

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  180. Robert Senk

    Hi Nami! I love your newsletter and your recipes! My oldest son is way into Anime and loves the Japanese culture. He has take 4 semesters of Japanese at college. He and his friends love when I make your recipes.

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  200. Thank you for all of the experimentation you did on the Castella cake recipe. Your post was almost like an article out of Cook’s Illustrated magazine. There are so many different recipes on the internet, and I have neither the time nor ingredients to try everything. I love Castella cake and am excited to give your recipe a try. It looks wonderful.

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  206. Jenny

    Aloha Nami & family,

    I leave in Lahaina Maui in Hawaii just want to thank you for what are great recipes that
    you have post every day. I really love them and try to cook them as much as i can, you make it so easy, i have not learn to cook as i growing up only now i’m learning though your videos hahaha!! I am a 61 years old woman who love your cooking instruction also love your family God Bless!!!!

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  208. Shun Ho

    Hi Nami,
    We loved ice -cream mochi so I search online for this recipe and I found your blog. We made some last Sunday, It was so delicious. My kids love them so much. Thank you for the recipe. My next cooking experiment is the green tea chocolate. Yummy! Thank you for sharing all the time!!!

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  219. Claire golden

    I love hearing all the events going on in your life and how they lead to us( your readers) getting brilliant new recipes. I work with kids every day,most who love to cook and bake. Do you have any easy and yummy recipes for them to do?
    Have a fantastic day!

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  239. Mora Chartrand

    Hi, Nami.

    Thank you for always having great recipes that are tasty and easy to whip up during a busy week. We vacation in Japan every year and so many of your recipes take us right back. Frequently, I refer friends to your site when they are just starting to venture more into Japanese cooking. Always a hit.

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  242. Kellie

    I tried to find something new to request, but everything I search for you’ve already done 🙂 so keep up the amazing work you’re doing. I love your website and your recipes are fantastic. THANK YOU!!!

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  249. patti

    I’ve been following your blog for a long time and am happy to see how far you’ve progressed. I’m enjoying your videos. Hope you’re enjoying your new kitchen — it looks fabulous! Love your recipes, too!

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  254. Kah-Wee Seah

    Thank you for sharing your experiments and adventures in cooking and baking. I especially look forward to your Japanese recipes as I’ve become interested in Japanese food since I return from a one-month trip there in 2010.
    You have a lovely family, wishing you all the very best in life.

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  255. patti

    I’ve been following your blog for a long time. I’m happy to see how far you’ve come. I’m enjoying your video & hope you’re enjoying your new kitchen. Love your recipes, too!

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  262. Jana Chen

    I absolutely love your recipe because they are so well explained they are easy to make. I also like how well structured your website is, unless a lot of other blogs. Makes it way easier for me to find the recipes I need. Also really enjoy that you do not only have japanese but also other asian cuisines. TOP. Please do continue your awesome work and also recipes from other asian cultures.

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  264. Samuel Ang

    I’m a chef student who studying at Malaysia, Japanese cruisin is one of my favorite cruisin compare to French or Italian. Because of Just One Cook Book , I manage to infuse some Japanese cooking ingredient to my French cooking recipe and take it for culinary competition all around the world ! For this I would like to thank you Nami (JustOneCookBook) for sharing out wonderful recipe in her blog and YouTube channel

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  265. Amy

    Dear Nami, Thank you for this well organized website. I’ve tried many of your recipes like miso salmon, spinach ohitashi, green bean shiraae, miso ramen, ramen egg, chashu and egg salad sandwich. Everything is delicious. I like how the videos are short with calm music and no narration. I prefer the Japanese recipes and don’t see the need for Western recipes. Is there a way to weed out the Western recipes in the search function on the left side? The measurements are precise, and the way you give links to Japanese ingredients to further explain them, with pictures, is very helpful. I like it when you specifically mention what your family eats because it helps me distinguish what real Japanese people eat at home versus what is served in Japanese restaurants. I wish I could see a picture of how a Japanese dinner table is set–it would help me to set my own table when I cook Japanese food for my family. Thank you for this excellent website.

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  285. Thank you for this wonderful & amazing opprotunity!!! I’d be honored to win one of your cookbooks & gift cards. Living on a tight income this would afford me an opportunity to expand my cooking tools. Your recipes are amazing.

    With much gratitude — Laura

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  291. Tom Bradke

    Your newsletters are great. It gives me a chance to learn many Japanese dishes my mother would make. What I find very helpful are what I call modernization of some of the dishes like baked tonkatsu. There are two dishes my Mother would make that I did not have a chance to learn and perhaps you’ve already done them. Unfortunately, I never learned the names of the dishes. One is burdock and carrots and the other had hijiki seaweed, carrots and fried tofu.

    Thank you for providing such a great and lovely newsletter and recipes!

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  316. Vicky

    Hello, I especially like to try your main course dishes. Could you make some more of those? I also really appreciate when you cook from all scratch ingredients since I prefer to make rather than buy. Thank you for the giveaway. How generous!

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  317. NAOMI YAMADA

    Thank you Nami for the wonderful, delicious, easy to follow recipes!
    My family has been enjoying them very much!
    Thank you also for touching my heart with your sincerity, compassion for others, and wisdom. You have enriched my life with your cooking and your loving heart!

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  330. Cheryl

    I spent the first 7 years of my life in Japan, I loved the culture and the food! Now with kids of my own, they share this love for the food so I’d love to make more of it for them at home.

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  336. Leslie

    Do you have a recipe for Okinawan rolled pancakes? I lived in Okinawa and there was a small pottery and glass shop that also had a coffee shop attached to it..we used to get the pancakes to eat while driving. I would love to know how to make them!

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  356. Chloe Naylor

    You should totally post a melon bread recipe!! It’s probably one of those treats that’s highly requested of you already, but oh my god is melon bread just the best childhood treat in the world?!

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  366. Patricia McCullough

    Super happy for you that your kitchen is finally done! I love your recipes.

    Have any other gluten free subscribers tried making “panko” with dried potato flakes? I season them and it works really well unless the dish is super moist- then you wind up with tasty mashed potatoes (ha ha!).

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  370. Michelle

    Hi Nami, I have been following your blog for couple years now but this are my first time living a comment. I like it your recipes are always fail proof! And I like your videos too! They are very professional and clean. Keep up with the good work!

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  378. Friendly hello and many thanks for sharing a wonderful recipes from an estonian person who lives in uk and is quite emotionally attached to Japan due to past experiences from Japan itself 🙂
    Best wishes from Viv

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  379. Laura Benthall

    I appreciate your site because it keeps me in touch with my heritage. Since my Japanese mom passed 15 years ago, I don’t have her to still teach me about our culture and food. I hope one day to make it to Japan☺️

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  392. Susan Henderson

    Hi! Can’t wait to try your pork belly recipe—I’ve read a lot about how good this is, but have never tried it because I couldn’t find pork belly anywhere. Then I discovered it in an Asian market ; now it sits in my freezer, just waiting for your recipe! Is this meat an Asian favorite?
    Susan

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  393. Jennifer Vu

    I am a JOC blog fan and I am a newsletter subscriber too. I love all your recipe and I looked forward for more amazing recipes too come. Thank you for all these lovely recipes that you share with all of us!!

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  395. Maria

    Hello! I really love your blog and all your recipes. Japanese food is my favorite that’s why I’m interested in learning how to cook some of my fvorite Japanese food. You make it look like i’ts so easy. Thank you so much for taking the time to teach someone like me how to cook delicious Japanese food.

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  408. Miki

    Thank you for the splendid recipes that you share with us~! I use your anko recipe (and your recipes that use anko!) quite frequently, and I’m looking forward to trying many new dishes that are featured on your website! ♥

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  420. Evelyn widodo

    hello Nami, thank you for all wonderful recipes! My most fave recipe is miso ramen because my husband is crazy about it. He said he has to have the miso ramen every week! lol. I’m wondering if you have recipe for unagi? yumzz.. thinking of unagi makes me drooling now lol

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  429. Hi! I would first like to say that I love your blog. I just started to love Japanese food and happened to drop by your site. I would really want to see more themed bento. I love your bento tutorials and it helped me a lot on what to put on my bento. 🙂 thanks for having this giveaway. <3

    Gale

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  444. Nami, I really look forward to seeing your emails. I have tried a couple of the dishes and they are delicious. I like your site because it is different and I am just not the best cook.
    Thanks for taking the time to do this as I love to try different things and not just the same old stuff!!!!!!!!!!!

    It is good also to learn someone else’s culture!

    Thanks again!!!!

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  449. I love your blog, I am enjoying the post on Japan.mi have many Japanese friends, who were home stay students, both adult and young adult. I am still in contact with them and one day will visit Japan. Taste their food and see the sights.

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  460. Both of my parents have Japanese blood. They were born in Mexico, however they went back to Japan to study, since their childhood all the way to the university. They are now 84 and 92 years old and I have a feeling that the older a person gets, the more he misses the food he used to eat when he was a child. So I’m sure they both miss the japanese flavors.
    Lately I’ve been trying to prepare japanese food for them. A couple of years ago I discovered JOC! And it has been a blessing! The recipes I’ve tried are delicious! You should see their eyes and face expression when they eat it! They truely enjoy them! Thanks Namiko-san. Kokoro kara hontoni doomo arigatoo gozaimasu!

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  467. Joanne

    Hi Nami!

    Thank you so much for all the effort and time you put into your recipes and videos. My husband and I went to Japan for our honeymoon and every time I prepare a meal from your helpful and detailed recipes, it reminds us of that sweet time together. I especially appreciate that you often explain why a particular step is needed and/or what it does as well as the history behind it. It helps me develop as a cook and not just blindly follow without learning.

    P.S. I really enjoyed your blog post about your travels in Hakodate, it was one of my favourite cities that we visited. If you ever go again, I highly recommend visiting a restaurant called Kappo Uosei. It is run by a married couple and the food is amazing. The best meal I have had in my life. 北海道函館市東雲町18-12 | Phone: 0138 26 0434

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  468. Kat Simpson

    I love your website. I made a surprise dinner for my family that consisted of the korokke and yaki udon. It was a smashing success…next time I will have to take pictures to share 🙂 I love that I can find something new to make no matter what kind of mood I am in food-wise

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  469. Nathalie

    Hey~ you have so many recipes that I like, and the best thing is that they aren’t that hard to make (at least those I’ve chosen). Unfortunately (well maybe not really, I feel great), I don’t eat any sugar at the moment so there are some of your recipes I can’t get the “real” taste because I leave out the sugar or replaces it with something else. It’s still very tasty but I’m looking forward to trying them with sugar in to see the difference 🙂

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  470. Helena

    Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I ran across your site about six months ago on a quest for the best teriyaki chicken recipe. The one I found here was perfect. My family always requests it.

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  473. George Takayama

    Great website. Would like to see some easy crock pot recipes if possible. Some recipes that you recommend for working people to set in the morning and it would be ready to eat when they come home.
    Thank you!

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  476. Donna

    I am a new subscriber to your site. I love all the recipes. I subscribed after seeing the video for Japanese Cabbage Rolls on Facebook. I made them Tuesday. They were great! And….they are all gone!

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  479. Beth

    Can’t wait to try the kabocha squash salad recipe! Since I am unable to find kabocha in my location, would you recommend substituting it with either acorn squash or butternut squash?
    Many thanks…and I always love your videos–they are so well done! I appreciate your attention to the details of the technical craft of video balanced with the artistic beauty of the visuals (even your nails look great, too!) 🙂

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  482. Jared

    Hi Nami! I love all your recipes. Being busy and all, I tend to make the “healthier” recipes that do not require too much time or too many ingredients. How about more quick recipes and maybe some creative grab-and-go recipes using a musubi mold? Thanks!

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  492. Aiko

    This is awesome! I hope I can win…
    By the way, if you have a chance (and you are picky about teas like I am), you should definitely try some Lupicia teas!!!! I think there are a couple branches in the Bay Area!

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  512. Connie Cheong

    Hello Nami,

    I recently discovered your recipes online and have followed some of them. Your recipes are so reliable and the results are always fail proof! I’ve posted my favourite matcha chiffon cake on my Instagram @churrosmia
    I brought this cake to one of my colleagues’ housewarming party recently and everyone liked it. Just wanna say a big THANK YOU to you and please continue to share your wonderful recipes!

    Cheers,
    Connie

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  551. Patrick

    I’d love to see a recipe for ginger carrot dressing that is tangy like shogun(local restaurant) or benehana’s. Another thing is what are some alternate uses for miso. a good primer on when to use miso.

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  568. Tee

    Just to say how much I have enjoyed your recipes, comments and travelogue. It has been great travelling along with you on your life journey and thank you for sharing with us.

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  581. Joanna Poh

    Tried making pickled ginger following your method. My pickled ginger didn’t turn very pink. Is it because my raw ginger didn’t have enough pink parts on them? They tasted yummy though. Thanks very much.

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  594. LENA

    Hi, Nami!

    Thank you for all of the recipes. Love all of them! Thank you very much.
    Love Japanese food–especially your recipes, ie, very easy instructions and delicious results!

    Arigato gozaimasu!!!

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  596. Debbie Stroud

    I absolutely love your e-mails, website, and videos! My Mom is Japanese and, while we ate some Japanese foods while growing up, she mainly fixed American foods. Only as we grew up, got married, and had kids did she start fixing the Japanese foods “for the grandchildren.” Haha. Now you’ve opened up a whole new world for me with recipes and, for things I’m not sure about, I can ask her!

    Thanks so much!
    Debbie Stroud
    Hephzibah, GA

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  601. Selena

    Hello! I have only recently found your blog when I started making bento lunches for my kid, and I am obsessed! So many great ideas, pictures and recipes. I’ve tabbed so many that I can’t wait to try. Because of you, I now own a magic wisk and other tools to make salad dressing, and more bento box equipment then I can count. And I only found you two weeks ago! 🙂 Love it, and keep up the great work.

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  602. I used to live in Japan as a Navy wife, and took Japanese cooking lessons from the USO – however, I’m very glad to have you and your source for easy recipes and good explanations – I enjoy your newsletter very much – thanks and good luck with all of your endeavors –

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  609. Judy C

    Love, Love, Love your site!!! You are doing a great job with this and I am so happy I found this site. My husband and I love Japanese food and we have been dying to try to make it but didn’t know how. With your site we are going to try some of your recipes. Would love to win the cookbook!! Thank you for this website and all your recipes! Keep up the great job!!! Congrats on your new kitchen! Judy

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  620. Brenda Thomason

    This is a wonderful cookbook. There is more to cooking than the recipe. Watching a video communicates so much more. Everything is clearer. The value of using the right tools becomes apparant. This is my favorite cookbook.

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  630. Anna

    Oh, I’ve absolutely no idea, what sort of recipe to wish for ^^”
    But I love healthy, low fat, easy recipes and I love stews and one pot recipes … Maybe I like to much.

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  631. Marlene McKellips

    I LOVE your blog! I’ve very little income so I use food and music to experience other cultures. Your blog sends me to the mysterious East and lets me get away with some delicious adventures. I’m so glad I found you. Thank you for continuing my adventure.

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  635. Bianca

    Helloe ! I’ve been so busy lately and I haven’t cooked a good meal for so long but this weekend is all mine so I’ll search through your recipes to find something tasty 🙂 Thank you for all your work ! have a good weekend !

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  636. N

    Hello, I like your recipe, simple to buy ingredients, easy to make. My husband stayed in Japan several years, he liked the food, so making your recipe is a remembrance of the fun times he had in Japan. Thanks again for your ideas. .

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