Kanako's Kitchen

We’re pleased to announce that, from today, Kanako will be contributing a regular column on Japanese cuisine for Menuism.com – a growing Social Networking Site for restaurant fans. Check out her intro interview here.

And if you’ve just come from Menuism, welcome! We already have 72 detailed Japanese recipes up on this blog – each with step-by-step illustrations – and we add new ones all the time. So there’s plenty to choose from for the aspiring Japanese home cook: just get yourself a good, sharp knife, make friends with the clerk at your nearest Asian grocery store, and get started!

[Kanako's husband here, pitching in a cheeky little post without her knowledge.]

Back in November, we bought this monstruous, one gallon jerrycan of Kikkoman soy sauce at the big Angel Seafoods sale in Montreal. Just to look at the thing in our shopping cart, I couldn’t really imagine how we’d ever finish it.

And yet today, just 92 days later, that jug officially ran out!

That’s an average of 41.2 milliliters a day of soy-y goodness. Or, for the less metrically inclined among you, 1.38 fluid ounces – or 2.8 tablespoons – of the stuff each and every day.

Bliss!