Semiserious Chefs

This colorful blend offers many of the favorite seasoning flavors we all crave. Just the right amount of garlic, a splash of chive to go with onion flakes, plenty of green herbs, and one very special ingredient; dried tomato! Dried tomato flakes can be found at a lot of herb and spice shops, and on-line. […]

This is the most basic of Furikakes. Simply unhulled sesame seeds and salt. It has been used in Japan for thousands of years over rice, fish, and a multitude of other dishes, but has gained some more recent fame as a lower sodium substitute to straight salt. Using a ratio anywhere from 15:1 to 5:1 […]

The base for any furikake is sesame seeds and salt. The name noritama comes from nori, or ‘sea weed,’ and tama, short for tamago, which means ‘egg.’ This ‘sprinkle’ for rice is hugely popular not only in Japan but all over the world. Noritama furikake is easy enough to purchase, even common in many US […]

I call this AWESOME Blend for the very simple reason that it’s shorter than ‘Awesome on Everything Blend,’ which is exactly what it is! Our local spice shop in Anchorage, Summit Spice and Tea, used to have a green herb blend, called Chena, that I used for a multitude of different applications. When they stopped […]

I make a large batch of this blend to keep on hand because I use it so often! This combination was first inspired by a Christmas gift from my Sister-in-Law. She gave us several Christmas ornament bulbs filled with herbs and spices for making dips. One was a very classic dill blend; 1 teaspoon dill […]