About Kumiko
Hello and thank you for visiting my Japanese recipe blog. After living in England for about 4 years I’ve now returned to Japan, I now live in Tokyo. I love to cook Japanese food as well as other Asian food, such as Thai, Chinese and Vietnamese. If you have any questions please contact me using the contact form on this site or leave a comment!
About The Recipes
A lot of the recipes featured on Kumiko’s Kitchen are very simple to prepare and make. The purpose of these recipes are to introduce people to Japanese food and cooking. I think many people can start to enjoy cooking Japanese and Asian food, just by knowing what all the ingredients are, and in what combination and quantity to use them in.
About The Photography
All the recipe pictures found on Kumikos Kitchen are taken by my husband. More examples of his work can be found at travel folio , which is a photo travel blog which covers Japan, Asia and Europe.
About Kumiko’s Kitchen
Kumiko’s Kitchen Began life as a few pieces of paper. Tired of the never ending build up of those little bits of paper, my husband took action and put together ‘Kumiko’s Online Recipe Book’. Those little bits of paper still remain, to the annoyance of my husband, but he is happy to say that, ‘its a nice little site, which I hope grows into something popular.’…
Thanks for visiting, come again
Kumiko
29 Comments
Noelle - 20/11/ 08 @ 1:06 pm
Hello, I love your website and the recipes.. I want to try them all (I only know how to prepare sushi and summer noodle salad, so far!)
I wonder if you could tell us the recipe of this wonderfully light japanese fruit dessert : bits of fruit and of “kanten” in a gelified half-liquid transparent jelly.. do you know which I mean ? I have looked in the web and never found a recipe. Thank you so very much for all that you are sharing with us.
All the best to you,
Noëlle
ps : I don’t have a website – yet
Kumiko - 22/11/ 08 @ 3:55 am
Thanks Noelle, I’d love to see your recipes and your version’s of mine.
I will move to Japan in about a months time, I will make anmitsu ‘kanten jelly’ one of my first recipes for Japan, It is easier to buy kanten in Japan.
Peter - 22/11/ 08 @ 3:58 am
for free blogging sites try, wordpress or blogger. They are both easy to set up. Kumiko’s Kitchen use’s wordpress as a foundation.
Pukako - 24/11/ 08 @ 12:07 am
Great site! My wife is from Akita, and cooks wonderful Japanese food. But she’s gone back to Japan for a few months to visit her family, and I miss her cooking so much that I’m trying to cook them, but it’s harder than it looks… That’s where your website helps!
Kumiko - 25/11/ 08 @ 5:27 am
Thanks, I hope you can surprise your wife with your new cooking skills when she gets back!
Lynn - 11/01/ 09 @ 5:50 pm
Just what I’ve been looking for… An authentic person with an authentic Japanese food site! Can’t wait to try many items. Cheers from http://www.sacatomato.com.
Ricky Royale - 29/01/ 09 @ 10:33 am
What a great site Kumiko. Do you know where I can get dried squid in the UK ?
Kumiko - 29/01/ 09 @ 4:45 pm
Dried Squid in the UK. That might be difficult, you could try any of the online shops. Japan Centre, Japanese Kitchen or Mount Fuji.
Tomoe - 07/02/ 09 @ 8:00 pm
I’m originally from Okinawa, but I now live in Marietta, Ohio. First time on your blog. Look forward to trying some of your recipes. I like bakind and would like your recipes for Japanese Sweet Bread, Japanese Roll Cake, and Manju. Domo!
Richard - 05/04/ 09 @ 12:43 pm
I absolutely love your site. I was deployed in Japan for 5 years, and upon returning to the United States I found myself greatly missing a lot of the food I had grown used to. Thank you so much!
Kumiko - 06/05/ 09 @ 3:15 am
Thanks for your comments Tomoe and Richard!
Els - 10/05/ 09 @ 10:15 am
Hello Kumiko,
My husband and me are just back from a roundtrip with a small group in Japan. We visited Tokyo, Kyoto,Nara,Beppu,Hiroshima ,Matsuyama, Aso,Fukuoka – Nagasaki, Nikko.We enjoyed it very much. I was surfing on internet and then i saw your website. I’am glad to find it, because of the receipes.
It is a very nice website.
Greetings from The Netherlands,
Els
Naung Naung - 13/05/ 09 @ 8:23 am
Hello Kumiko
i love your website and meal recipe.
it made my Mother and Grand mother smiles…. they also love your dishes ..
i so wonder to get more…
thanks you…
Natasha - 12/06/ 09 @ 6:12 am
Hi!
I just stumbled upon your website while looking for some recipes and absolutely LOVED it! I am Indian and live in India and love trying new cuisines. I made the coriander Thai sauce using green chillies instead of the red (i didn’t have it at home) and it tasted awesome! Thank you!! Will try more!!
lily - 27/07/ 09 @ 5:06 pm
AH ! kumiko !
your recipes are very unique and very inspiring.
would it be possible to write down the time it takes to cook the recipes and specific instructions on the procedures and methods to create the dishes?
i’m using one of your recipes for one of my food technology assignments
Kumiko - 27/07/ 09 @ 5:14 pm
Hello Lily, let me know which dish you are using and I will try to help
Saloshinee - 17/08/ 09 @ 5:46 am
Hi Kumiko
Just to let u know that I was googling a lost penpal, Kumiko Shoga, and stumbled onto your website. It is very different and interesting. I will definitely be trying out some of the receipes.
Saloshinee
South Africa
chris - 20/08/ 09 @ 8:38 am
Hi,
I went to japan for a couple of weeks in May and loved the food.
Just wondered if you had a recipe for the type of street raman that is everywhere.
Thanks
Laverna Satterfield - 21/08/ 09 @ 8:21 pm
Can you please tell me what strong flour is? I see it in one of your recipes and just this evening a friend, who is an experienced cook, saw another recipe that called for it and asked if I knew what it is.
I have never heard of it before.
Laverna
Willy - 22/08/ 09 @ 7:42 am
Hi Kumiko,
I love Japanese food. I am from South Africa and lived in japan for 2 years. I often had Saizeria spaghetti Bolognaise with meat sauce.. and I loved it. I know it is not a traditional Japanese dish but the way the Japs prepares it makes it 10 times better than the SA way…
Please publish the recipe..
Kind regards
Willy
ps I lived in Kasugai (Kozoji) for 1 year and then in Nishen for 1 year.
lily - 24/08/ 09 @ 3:37 am
the ebi chilli sauce .
please and thankyou.
mauricio - 25/08/ 09 @ 2:44 am
Hey kumiko, I work at a japanese kitchen and well the managment wants to change the vegetables we srve do you know any unsual but yet tasty japanese vegetable??
Neil - 31/08/ 09 @ 9:12 pm
Hi, i really like your site and look forward to trying some of your recipes.
I have just moved to japan, and want to learn to cook asian food.
I cannot read or speak japanese yet, so finding ingredients can be difficult!
jose efrain - 07/09/ 09 @ 1:22 pm
he estado intentado acer el tofu y no me sale me queda muy delgado como de 2 cm. y pastoso cree usted q me pueda ayudar? ya que a mi familia le gusta mucho, le estare muy agradecido. Arigato
Carl - 10/10/ 09 @ 1:19 am
Hi Kumiko,
I’m hoping that you can help with a recipe. As far as I know the dish is a typical northern Japanese recipe. The meal is in a large bowl with potatoes,cabbage,onion and sweet corn layered in that order.On the very top of the vegetables there’s different kinds of fish.In the bowl is a stock I think consists of miso with some butter.The method was to cook this on the table,the potatoes cooked first and the the cabbage slowly sinks into the stock and so on with the fish cooking last. Once all the ingredents are cooked you begin to eat.I tried to cook this however it was only from my memory of being served this in Japan once. My question is do you know this dish and what is the correct way to cook it ?
I hope you will be able to help thank you in anticipation of your help.
Regards Carl
scottiehapa - 15/10/ 09 @ 1:02 am
hey kumiko, i’m a major foodie and your website is great. if anyone wants a really good japanese cookbook heres a link to one. http://whiterabbitpress.com/product.php?productid=16239 my japanese roommate got it for me a while back and i’ve used it plenty. post a recipe for japanese style paella! cheers~
Kristiina Anderson - 12/11/ 09 @ 6:25 pm
Beautiful recipes!!!!!
I have a japanese book:Oishii kiji by Kojina.I would like to make those cakes but I can´nt japanese. Have you any recipes of cakes, swiss roll, fruitcake ?????
Please…
Many regards from Sweden
Noriko - 03/12/ 09 @ 10:52 am
Kumiko-san:
I found your cooking website, which is wonderful. I love Asian food very much, so I will try to use your recipes whenever needed. Thank you so much!!
I just want to say one more things. The pictures Peter has been taking are beautiful. He must be a professional photographer. Of course, he also must be happy for Kumiko-san’s delicious dishes.
Pururu - 05/12/ 09 @ 1:00 am
Hi Kumiko-san, i wonder if Mirin can be replaced by other sauce? Thanks