A List of Peko Peko Recipes

by stacie on June 21, 2011

Peko Peko Breakfast

Have you purchased your copy of Peko Peko: Family-Friendly Japanese Recipes yet?!

While I’m sure the fact that 100% of the proceeds support relief in Japan is genuine motivation, allow me to speak to a more primal—and hungrier—part of you.

Check out this complete list of recipes that you’ll find in the book and then try not to click the “Buy” button immediately!

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BUY IT NOW! Peko Peko is For Sale

by stacie on June 13, 2011

Have you heard?! Peko Peko: Family Friendly Recipes went on sale Friday. We are up and running!

Now it’s time to raise money for Japan.
Buy your copy now!!

Every book costs $29.95 and 100% of the proceeds, $11.45 of every purchase, goes to GlobalGiving. Every other penny goes to printing and shipping your order, nothing else. Blurb has waived their cut and every person involved in making the book (including me!) is buying personal copies.

Every sale counts.

Tell your friends, post, tweet, Facebook—help spread the word. Post your questions or drop a line. I’d be happy to tell you anything you want to know about the project (you hear that, press!).

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Count ‘Em: TWO Ways to Support Peko Peko

June 3, 2011

That’s right. There’s more than one way to support Peko Peko! Of course you’re going to buy the book. That’s a no-brainer. You’d do that even if $11.45 of your $29.95 purchase wasn’t going to charity. Otherwise, how would you get 59 family-friendly Japanese and Japanese-inspired recipes, a glossary of over 50 Japanese ingredients with [...]

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On Sale 6/10!

June 1, 2011
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We’re so close! I should get my proof of Peko Peko: Family-Friendly Japanese Recipes in the mail by this Friday. From there, it’s a final read through and, then, game time! By Friday 6/10, you’ll be able to buy your own copy!

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Book Details, Release Week & Recipe Spotlight!

May 11, 2011
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Well, my my. It’s certainly been hard putting this book together while also keeping you up to date on our progress. Sorry that I haven’t been able to keep up! The good news is that long periods of radio silence between posts is a sign of work, work, work getting us closer to a finished [...]

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Peko Peko Proceeds Will be Donated to GlobalGiving

April 26, 2011
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Wow. This project has us busy! Rachael, Marc and I knew that putting together this cookbook would be a big undertaking but, as is always the case, we didn’t know just how big until we were knee deep in. It’s been great, though. We’re tired—I cannot lie about that!—but it’s been a pure joy to [...]

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UPDATE! And Recipe Spotlight: Peko Peko Udon

April 11, 2011
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It’s been a little while since our last post and much has happened! The biggest news is that close to all SIXTY recipes have been submitted. We’ve got soups; vegetables, seaweeds and salads; tofu and eggs; seafood; meat and poultry (like the Pork and Shitake Gyoza we shared a week and a half ago); rice, [...]

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Peko Peko Recipe Spotlight: Pork and Shitake Gyoza

March 29, 2011
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More gorgeous food! These Pork and Shitake Mushroom Gyoza come to us from Liren of Kitchen Confidante. She found the recipe, which will be published in Peko Peko: A Charity Cookbook for Japan, in her mother’s recipe binder. You know what that means, right? This is serious biz, people! And, a mother two herself, Liren [...]

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‘Like No Disaster I Have Ever Seen’

March 29, 2011

With an ongoing nuclear crisis, there is no shortage of news on the aftermath of the March 11th earthquake and tsunami in Japan. To be honest, some of it is too much for me. But, in the midst of a barrage of reports fearing nuclear fall out, I found this piece describing CNN correspondent Kyung [...]

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Peko Peko Recipe Spotlight: Green Tea Kit Kat

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As we organize the recipes streaming in, I thought I’d share some of the brilliance that you’ll find in our upcoming Peko Peko: A Charity Cookbook for Japan First up, Homemade Green Tea Kit Kat! How. AMAZING. Do. These. Look?!!? Thank you to Josie of Daydreamer Desserts (@DaydreamerDsrts) for this spectacular contribution! If you’re as [...]

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