Japanese love to eat good food and many Japanese women love to cook traditional home cooked meals that they grew up eating. There is so much more to Japanese food than is typically experienced by most Americans. Being married to a Japanese woman you will be able to try some real Japanese home cooking. You will not be disappointed!
When my wife and I first got married my coworkers would ask me if my wife cooked Japanese food at home. I told them that she loves cooking and is a great cook. My coworkers would usually respond, “You are so lucky! I love sushi and teriyaki chicken!” The puzzled look on my face was only matched by the same look on theirs when I would respond, “Actually, my wife doesn’t cook either of those. She usually makes home cooked style Japanese meals.”
This response was usually followed by them asking about what Japanese foods there were besides sushi, tempura and teriyaki chicken bowls. I would then happily explain some of the dishes my wife makes: curry rice, gobo, miso, miso saba, nikujaga and zaru soba to name just a few.
To be fair, until I married my wife I was no more savvy about Japanese home cooking than my coworkers were. I remember coming home one day and seeing this strange looking long, beige colored, tapered, skinny root vegetable which was about three feet long. I had never seen anything like it. I asked her what it was and she told me it was “gobo”. She didn’t know the English name for it so I googled it and found out it was “burdock root”.
She explained it was very nutritious and healthy and that it is a dish commonly given to school kids because it’s loaded with vitamins. I asked if I could help, and soon I was peeling and slicing carrots. It was fun to cook together and I loved the finished product which was flavored with sake and soy sauce, but not so much as to overpower the earthy flavor of the root vegetables. My first taste of gobo. It’s still one of my favorites.
Japanese women love to cook their native dishes, particularly those that are made during a certain time of year. For example, there are certain special foods eaten during New year’s eve like warm soba noodles. For a Japanese, cooking is very meaningful and each dish usually has a special significance or memory attached to it, so it is a very happy thing to cook the foods they grew up with.
As an American, one thing I had to get used to was that there are very subtle flavorings in Japanese cuisine. Usually, sake or mirin, soy sauce, and miso add the flavor to most dishes. Sometimes dried seafoods serve as both a main ingredient and flavoring, as well as mushrooms, ginger and dried seaweed. The delicate flavors that are added by these very natural ingredients make for a very delicious, clean tasting and healthy cuisine.
Your Japanese wife will also love trying your favorite American dishes as well. I remember when we had our first Thanksgiving, my wife was fascinated by the traditional Thanksgiving dinner of roasted turkey with all the trimmings: sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, green beans, and cranberry sauce. It’s now one of the dinners she loves to help me cook every holiday season. Japanese are very food adventurous and love to eat. When we were visiting some of my family in North Carolina my wife fell in love with shrimp and grits, biscuits and gravy, collard greens and southern barbecue.
It’s not necessary for you to know how to cook, but for a Japanese wife it is a big plus if you enjoy eating, trying new foods, and appreciating your wife’s Japanese cooking. In Japan, to cook food for your husband is a very important way that a Japanese woman shows her love and appreciation for her husband and family.
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