Sauteed Chinese yam with butter and soup stock flavored soy sauce by Yuri Yamamoto’s recipe

                   
                           Sauteed Chinese yam with butter and soup stock flavored soy sauce

Yuri Yamamoto is now the most popular cooking blogger in Japan. The dish of Chinese yam is very easy: saute it with its peel, put butter and sprinkle soup stock flavored soy sauce. It is so good. In the first place, I didn’t have the idea of sauteing Chinese yam. It is a kind of taste like you eat in an izakaya. Yuri highly recommends soup stock flavored soy sauce, so I bought two flavors. Only by sprinkling with the soy sauce, boiled or grilled vegetables become a delicious dish. 

             

                                 Two kinds of the soup stock flavored soy sauces

Yuri has posted many recipes that you can cook with a microwave, which you have fewer dishes that you have to wash. I have heard that a husband who read Yuri’s recipe book and he got motivated to cook for the first time because those recipes

looked so easy.

By the way, Yuri is from Osaka but her husband is from Ono City, Fukui Prefecture.

They return to Ono City once in a while. And she wrote in her blog about foods in Ono City. 

On Twitter, she answers questions frequently about her recipes. For example, 

against a chocolate cheesecake recipe, "Is it okay without chocolate?" "It's okay. I recommend adding a little lemon juice." She has a big heart, so it must be one of the secrets of her popularity. (H.S)

               

                                      Yuri Yamamoto and her recipe book

                               （Photo is Books Kinokuniya’s official website）

                                        Yuri's Twitter: @syunkon0507 

                             

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Rare butter "Calpis Butter" by Calpis Co., Ltd.

                                  Calpis Special Butter 450g (salted)

I like butter. There is always butter in my refrigerator. The other day, finally I got the Calpis Butter as I had always wanted to. The rare Calpis Butter was produced from cream generated in the production process of Calpis Water (Japanese lactic acid bacilli beverage), but only a limited amount is produced.

I was excited to remove the wrapper, and the butter looked whiter than normal one. I managed to resist the urge to eat as it is. And I spread it on toast anyway. The butter was not sweet at all unlike the Calpis Water, was very rich one but sophisticated, which I sensed the good quality. So it is a good way to enjoy eating ordinary bread. I want to eat butter soy sauce rice, garlic fried rice and French toast etc. with the butter.

By the way, speaking of butter, many people might avoid it as it is high calorie and high fat. But it maybe wrong. For example, when you eat toast with butter, it is known to curb the rise in blood sugar levels than eating only toast itself. Also, butter is rich in Vitamin A and D, so anti-aging effects are expected. As with anything, overconsumption is not good for your health. So I would like to enjoy it in moderation. (H.S)