Reddit reviews Everyday Harumi: Simple Japanese food for family and friends
We found 3 Reddit comments about Everyday Harumi: Simple Japanese food for family and friends. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
We found 3 Reddit comments about Everyday Harumi: Simple Japanese food for family and friends. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
That's my monthly budget, too! (and as a 200 lb guy I do not have a dainty appetite so you can get plenty of food with that much)
Basically, this limits you from nice steaks and fresh seafood. Everything else is fair game.
My wife and I keep a list of what we've made so if we have trouble thinking of what to cook we can look through a bunch of options. (Note: the $200 monthly budget covers only me, not both me and my wife.)
In a given month, we'll eat:
A couple caveats: I buy very few prepared foods, very rarely have sandwiches so no lunch meat (it's spendy), and I don't eat breakfast. I do most of my shopping at Aldi and only go elsewhere for things they don't carry like specialty Asian ingredients. We have a couple big Asian groceries nearby that are good for that - we count a few basic sauces as staples that we find it's not too expensive to keep on hand that really open up our options for Asian recipes (soy sauce, sesame oil, rice vinegar, and fish sauce).
Edit: because this has gotten a good bit of attention I'll mention that we do have a good selection of cookbooks to work from. Not a huge number, but a well curated set that is mostly based on recommendations from friends and the internet, were gifts, or ones we knew were good because former housemates had them.
But if you don't have many and don't want to spend the cash don't worry! Your local library should have a bunch, and many resources (that are less hit-or-miss than e.g. allrecipes.com) are available online. Good and Cheap, budgetbytes, and seriouseats (The Food Lab) are in my top 3 (I do have a paper copy from all 3, because I want to support what they do). Other cookbooks that I like, also listed in the "Source" column of the linked google doc:
Between Just One Cookbook, Japanese Cooking 101, Chopstick Chronicles, Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art ^BOOK, and Ochikeron ^YouTube you should be able to figure out something you like.
I am not the biggest fan of any of Nancy Singleton Hachisu books for beginners, but there are other good books, like Everyday Harumi - pretty much any of Harumi's books will be good, she doesn't go for crazy ingredients (ala Nancy Hachisu) and she's usually the top cookbook writer in Japan.
I like The Just Bento Cookbook that someone else already linked and also this cookbook: https://smile.amazon.com/Everyday-Harumi-Simple-Japanese-friends-ebook/dp/B01J24WP6Q/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?keywords=Japanese+cookbook+harumi&qid=1571830355&sr=8-3
I also really love the Cooking With Dog cooking show on YouTube. Her website is here with all the videos: https://cookingwithdog.com/ it appears that some of the recipes are translated to German.