— Denise Tarasuk

You know, these are gonna be, uh, some, some simple, and I'll say fairly common, right? Home style dishes. Um, fried rice, you know, comes to mind. Uh, you know, we think about, uh, often, uh, we think about chi Chinese restaurant, right? When we think of fried rice. And, um, you know, in fact, in, in Japan, um, or in, in the context of Japanese cooking, fried rice does come from this lineage of Chinese cooking that made its way to Japan. There are, that's, that's a whole genre of cooking within Japanese cooking, okay? Japanese style, Chinese cuisine. And so, anyway, fried rice appears, you know, very commonly. Um, you've got, uh, um, uh, for those meat eaters out there, there's, um, um, potatoes that are sied with thinly sliced meat. And, um, typically in a Japanese context, it's beef, but it could be something else. It's, uh, generally called niku jaga. So niku means meat, and jaga is short for jaga imo, which means, uh, potato. And, um, so, um, that's a common dish that that comes up, uh, you know, in home cooking. And as I've mentioned, uh, in other programs that our go-to breakfast here is gonna be miso soup. And that was true this morning as well. And, um, oh, let's see, you know, in the summertime, uh, you know, tofu comes to mind a lot just 'cause it's a, it's a great source of, uh, macronutrients and, and, and, and other things. But, uh, in the summertime there's a, a very simple preparation called, uh, um, I think it's called ko, and it's, it's, um, soft tofu, um, that you put out just in a block form, and you'll grate some, uh, ginger and, uh, put a, a nub of that on top and, uh, drizzle some soy sauce over that, uh, to the extent that you want. Uh, and then you eat that, it, it's chilled and it's refreshing, uh, gives you a, you know, a good source of, um, you know, all of the, uh, protein building amino acids that soybeans offer. And, um, so anyway, those are just a, a few quick things that come to mind. And, uh, I'm sure if I sat down with you, Denise, uh, you know, we can brainstorm and come up with a, uh, you know, several other things, but, uh, I'll, I'll leave it at that.