Alright, here’s Uichiro’s famous Kawabata-style Okonomiyaki. Okonomiyaki is Japan’s version of a pancake of sorts. It’s base ingredients are eggs, flour, and shredded cabbage. Not entirely sure if Uichiro uses water or dashi, or what else he puts in his mix (highly guarded secret but I’m sure there are green onions in it) but it sure is tasty. [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Okonomiyaki
Posted in Home Cooking, swine, tagged batter, bean sprouts, bonito, burdock sauce, dashi, eggplant, eggs, flour, green onion, green pepper, griddle, japanese pancake, kabocha, matsutake, mayonnaise, mochi, mushrooms, noodles, oil, okonomiyaki, onion rings, pork, quail eggs, shredded cabbage, wakame, water, yakisoba on December 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nobu-style Fluke with Harumaki
Posted in Home Cooking, seafood, swine, tagged bamboo shoots, chicken stock, chinese mustard, chives, dashi, deep fry, fluke, garlic, ginger, green onion, harumaki, japan, leek, nobu mtsuhisa, oil, pepper, ponzu, pork, sake, sashimi, sesame oil, sesame seeds, shiitake, soy oil, soy sauce, spring roll, spring roll skins, starch, sugar, wakame on December 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It seems like every other program on Japanese TV has something to do with food. One program that I watched featured the biography of Nobu Matsuhisa, he of the restaurant Nobu. One of the dishes he showed on TV piqued the interest of Yuki’s mom, so the next night we set out to try and replicate [...]
Chinese for Christmas
Posted in Restaurant, tagged athiest, bagels, bean paste, beef, bell pepper, bridgeport, buddhists, cafe hoang, calamari, capers, carrot, chinatown, chinese green, chinese restaurant, christmas, corkage fee, duck breast, fish sauce, granny smith, green apple salad, green onions, han 202, hot bean sauce, hot dogs, ice cream, jalapeno, jesus, jew, king crab, lamb chop, lao szechuan, lemongrass, mango, miso, new york, olive oil, pepper, phil vettel, phoenix, pineapple, pizza, pre-fix, red peppercorns, salt, saturday night live, scallop, sichuan, sorbet, squid, stir-fry, strip steak, tomato, tribune, truffle oil, tuna, vanilla on December 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Being an atheist Jew who doesn’t celebrate the birth of fictional characters I always end up at a Chinese restaurant on Christmas day. I know that Saturday Night Live had their famous skit about Jews going to Chinese joints on Christmas, but it’s only funny because it’s true. Buddhists share the lack of blind faith [...]
Chiles Rellenos
Posted in Home Cooking, Meatless Monday, tagged ancho chile, arugula, black beans, chiles rellenos, chili powder, cilantro, green onions, japan, meatless monday, mexico city, mexico:one plate at a time, oive oil, onions, orange juice, pepper, plantain, poblano, Ricardo Muñoz-Zurita, rick bayless, ricotta salata, salt, serrano chile, tomatoes, white rice on December 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
So, this past Monday night was the first Monday I really had a chance to cook since coming back from Japan. That meant it was my first Meatless Monday in a long time. After watching an episode of “Mexico: One Plate at a Time” with Rick Bayless that featured Chiles Rellenos I was inspired. Renowned chef [...]
Bakabuta Ramen
Posted in Restaurant, tagged bakabuta, bamboo shoots, bean sprouts, chicago, eryngii, green onions, green tea, himeji castle, japan, japanes castle, miso, miso ramen, nara prefecture, ramen noodles, roasted pork, shinkansen, soy sauce, taqueria, tissue, togarashi, toothpicks, woodear mushrooms on December 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We spent an afternoon at Himeji Castle before exploring some of the Nara Prefecture. If you only see one castle in Japan, you’d better make it Himeji. It is absolutely pristine. Easily the best preserved structure built in the 1300′s that I’ve ever been to. It is the quintessential Japanese Castle. At any rate, it’s located [...]
Soba
Posted in Restaurant, tagged 1600's, 1800's, architecture, bamboo shoots, buckwheat, chicago, dashi, ferns, japanese village, kawasaki city, mt fuji, mushrooms, onions, shiitake, shimeji, soba, soy on December 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There’s this really cool outdoor “museum” of sorts in Kawasaki City, the town where Yuki was born. I say town, it actually has about 1.4 million residents making it Japan’s 9th most populated city. For this museum they took old houses from various areas in Japan and rebuilt them the way an old Japanese village [...]
Nyumen
Posted in Restaurant, tagged azuki, carrot, citrus, dashi, ferns, glutinous rice, hase-dera, kansai, mitsuba, muro-ji, nyumen, red pepper, scrambled egg, shiitake, somen, tatami, tempura flakes, yaki-mochi, yomogi, yuzu-togarashi on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After visiting the temple complex at Muro-ji in the Kansai region, we had 30 minutes before the bus left back to the train station in order to catch the train to Hase-dera. With empty stomachs we needed food and we needed it fast! As we walked through the little mountain town towards to bus stop [...]
