World Cup cooking is back! The rugby world cup is underway in New Zealand with 20 sides competing. Once again we will cook our way through the world cup. The 2010 FIFA world cup blog is here:

http://32nations1kitchen.blogspot.com/

Lets get cooking!



We start with Japan. I made two Japanese meals today. For lunch, I made Unadon - a rice bowl with unagi and kabayaki sauce:



Very easy to prepare as the unagi comes prepackaged. Steam the eel in sake and serve over rice with kabayaki sauce made from 2 parts soy sauce, 2 parts mirin, and 1 part sugar.



For dinner, I made Hiyashi Chuka, a cold pasta salad.

First, I made soba buckwheat egg noodles:









Then I cut strips of ham, cucumber, and sweet fried egg and arranged with the boiled pasta on the plate dressed with nori, sesame seeds, pickled ginger, and a dressing made from rice vinegar, water, soy sauce, sugar and sesame oil.




Both were delicious.