There's not a whole helluva lot I can say about okonomiyaki besides it is the ultimate awesome-leftover killer. With a base of the disgusting-sounding batter with cabbage (added to flour, baking soda, dashi, water), this stuff is really quite amazingly good. Of course, at the end, it's covered in sauce and mayo, so who doesn't like that? Some important stuff to remember: the dashi really does make this stuff work. I had some homemade stock I made from leftover yellowtail tuna, bonito, and seaweed. My house stank for 3 days, but the stock is indispensible in Japanese cooking. You can pick up tiny bottles of the dry stuff, but I can't vouch for it (though that's what I do use for my tamagoyaki). I have not used the mountain yam, which is supposed to make this stuff extra-good, because I have been too lazy to have someone pick it up for me at one of the myriad of Asian food markets within a 2-mile radius my my house.

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I mentioned once before, the curry I make quite often is the one that I grew up with. My mom made almost this exact curry monthly, and when I left the nest, I craved it so badly I learned how to make it. And it was really stupidity that kept me away... this curry is incredibly easy to make, and it's so good, you can "wow" people with it. It is pretty appropriate then, to make this for the Mom on Mother's day. The only problem is I didn't get to spend the day with my mom, so the in-laws had to do. This actually worked in my favor, since neither of them had tasted this curry before, and were therefore even more impressed than my own mother would have been. So, ready your tastebuds and checkity-check the recipe after the jump:

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