Yuki used some of her United miles to get a coupon for the Chicago Curry House. I remember a couple of years ago she took me there for their lunch brunch. Featuring Northern Indian and Nepalese food I remember it being pretty good. When she got the coupon we figured that’d get us back down [...]
Posts Tagged ‘beer’
Yuki’s Sukiyaki
Posted in beef, Home Cooking, tagged beef, beer, carrot, egg, enoki, japanese, konnyaku, mirin, miso, napa cabbage, onion, sake, shabu-shabu, shiitake, shirataki, soy sauce, sugar, sukiyaki, tofu, white rice on January 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Just saying Yuki’s Sukiyaki is almost as much fun as eating it. Sukiyaki is a traditional family style one-pot meal in Japan. Vegetables are simmered in a sweet soy-based broth. Then the pot is brought to the table and, over a table-top burner, thin slices of beef are swished around (similar to shabu-shabu) and cooked in the pot. [...]
Chicken in Chinese Black Bean Sauce
Posted in Home Cooking, poultry, tagged bean sprouts, beer, black bean and garlic sauce, broccoli, carrot, chicken, chicken thigh, chinese, fermented black bean, garlic, ginger, green onion, mirin, sesame oil, shiitake, soy sauce, sweet potato, white rice on October 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For dinner last night I made a simple Chinese-flavored ground chicken stir-fry. For the sauce, I used fermented black bean and garlic sauce. It’s a real easy way to get a lot of flavor into a quick, healthy dish. My ingredients included 1 carrot cut into half moons, 1/2 pound bean sprouts, 2 tablespoons soy [...]
Chicken Hijiki Rice
Posted in Home Cooking, poultry, tagged beer, carrot, chicken, chikuwa, fish cake, hijike, mirin, miso, miso soup, onion, rice, sake, sesame dressing, sesame oil, sesame seeds, shiitake, soy sauce, sugar, wakame, zucchini on October 13, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The other night Yuki and I cooked together. We made one of my favorites, chicken hijiki rice, along with some vegetables that we needed to use up. Making the rice is easy as can be. We used 1.5 tablespoons of dried hijiki seaweed, 4 shiitake sliced, 1 carrot sliced in half moons, and 1/2 pound [...]
Lillie’s Q
Posted in Restaurant, tagged avenues, bbq, beer, brioche, bucktown, carolina, carolina gold, frickled pickle, fried pickle, fries, genny's, honey 1, hot smokey, ivory, kentucky, ketchup, la pasadita, lillie's q, louisville, memphis in may, moonshine, mustard, pulled pork, ranch, ribs, slaw, smokey, smoque, sweet potato, tri-tip, tru on September 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Last night my buddy Nick wanted to meet up for a happy hour drink. In the morning he suggested either grabbing a beer or trying a new taco joint or something, he’s a taco eating freak of nature who would hook La Pasadita up to an IV bag if he could. I had read about Lillie’s [...]
Shiitake Mapo Tofu
Posted in Home Cooking, Meatless Monday, tagged beer, carrot, chili, fermented bean, garlic, ginger, green onion, ground pork, haricots vert, meatless monday, mushrooms, red bell pepper, sake, sesame oil, shiitake, soy sauce, szechuan, tapioca flour, toban djan, tofu, white rice on August 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Mapo tofu is a Szechuan dish typically made with ground pork. However, last night being Meatless Monday, I diced up some shiitake mushrooms to take the place of the meat. To start, I made the sauce. I used 2 heaping tablespoons of toban djan (a szechuan chili and fermented bean sauce, its spicy but this dish [...]
Rootstock
Posted in Restaurant, tagged bahn mi, beer, bread, carrot, earth wind and fire, excarole, french fries, frisee, garnacha, grapes, greek, italian, linguista, mixed greens, mustard, navarro, pork belly, rootstock, sausage, soy, spanish, vinaigrette, whole foods, wine, zucchini on August 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last night Yuki and I walked to Rootstock Wine & Beer Bar for dinner. She was in the mood for some nice wine, I wasn’t in the mood to cook, and neither of us have been there before. With the weather not too humid last night a nice 30 minute walk to and from dinner [...]
Hoisin-glazed Salmon with Brussel Sprout Hash and Corn Soup
Posted in Home Cooking, seafood, tagged applewood, bacon, beer, brussel sprouts, butter, chicken stock, coho salmon, corn, garlic, green onion, hoisin, onion, radish, red creamer potato, shiitake on August 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Fresh caught sustainable Coho Salmon was on sale, and it looked damn good, so I picked up a 20 oz fillet. I really wanted to throw it on the grill, but with it raining all day yesterday I had to settle for the broiler. I hate covering up fresh flesh like this with a lot [...]
