Atsuko's Japanese Kitchen: Home-cooked comfort food made simple

The book covers well Japanese cooking and recipes are well presented. I am pleased with my purchase.

Delighted with this - I've bought it as a present for my 13-year-old grand-daughter, who is a good cook and loves Japanese food.

I like the explanations and background. The instructions are clear and the pictures are beautiful. It's a lovely book that has inspired some delicious family meals. Negative points are that it uses obscure specialist ingredients to make some westernised dishes, also, many of the recipes use meat, which personally I am looking to move away from. I'm glad I bought it though, its broadened by culinary experience.

Made a few already, very easy and quick recipes, e.g. omelette with rice, chicken and omelette.

The book is so good that I am buying one more from the same author.

I have tried my first recipe and it was excellent. Very good explanations of the sauces and ingredients.

Lots of lovely pictures and well described recipes but some are just a bit too involved and use authentic ingredients that just aren't available everywhere.

I love the mix of easy and slightly more challenging dishes (The chicken teriyaki is so easy and tasty!) and great to have the extra insights like the etiquette guide at the start. I can see this being a great go to for when I want to treat friends (or just myself and husband!)

I really like this cookbook. The recipes seem to be authentic for Japanese home cooking, and photos accompany each recipe. There are even a recipe and photo for making gyoza wrappers. The recipes are precise except the one for chicken karaage, page 57, which calls for “6 free range skin-on boneless chicken thighs.” Since chicken thighs come in varying sizes, a precise weight here would have been helpful, if only as a benchmark. Otherwise, this is a thorough cookbook for Japanese “home-cooked comfort food.”

Es un libro muy bueno, bien explicado y con tips. Los ingredientes no son demasiado difíciles de encontrar y las recetas que he probado están deliciosas, sin ser demasiado complicadas. Además, es un libro bonito. Lo compré de segunda mano y estaba como nuevo, tal y como se describía.

Excellent Japanese cook book

Prachtig boek en leerzaam maar niet alles is even duidelijk als je echt een beginner bent.

I have made several dishes from this book and they have all turned out so delicious. A good range of recipes that require common asian ingredients. Good for beginners as well as experienced cooks. She gives recipes for different types of common dashi (soup base), and explains the different types of miso and rice.