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How to Make Japanese Curry Rice From Scratch

The food blog, Serious Eats, consistently impresses me with their recipes and food reviews, probably because they tend to cover the types of food I actually like to cook and eat. They do a particularly great job with Asian food, and even Korean food, striking a good balance between tradition and creativity, and I even look forward to their weekly email newsletters.

They actually seem like they're written by Asian people who know a thing or two about Asian food before they go all fusion-crazy. I mean, have you seen Bobby Flay's so-called "kimchee salad" recipe featuring soy sauce and vinegar? Yes. Soy sauce and vinegar. (As one outraged commenter rightly put it, "Calling this Kimchee salad is like calling a tortilla a cookie.")

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This post on How to Make Japanese Curry Rice From Scratch is a perfect example. I usually make curry with S&B or Vermont curry blocks, but I've grown unhappy with them -- possibly because these days, I now actually care about things like cage-free eggs and organic natto? The store-bought curry blocks usually have lard in them, too, if I remember correctly. This is such a simple idea -- and just shot to the top of my must-try-making list. Yum.

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