Last night for dinner I made Japanese-style ginger pork with miso soup. The more I cook Japanese food the more I realize just how much healthier it is to American food. There is very little added fat and much more vegetable-to-meat ratio. Cooking Japanese-style food is extremely as well, not to mention delicious! I first [...]
Posts Tagged ‘japan’
Buta-niku Shoga Yaki
Posted in Home Cooking, swine, tagged america, american, bean sprouts, dashi, fingerling, garlic, ginger, green onion, japan, japanese, mirin, miso soup, onion, pork, pork chop, potato, sake, sesame seeds, shiitake, snap peas, soy sauce, vegetable oil, wakame, white rice on February 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Ai Sushi
Posted in Restaurant, tagged ai sushi, avocado, butter, capers, chawanmushi, chicago bears, chinese, cilantro, corn, crab, custard, daikon, dashi, duck, egg, enoki, fluke, ginger, habanero, japan, kabocha, kampyo, kobe beef, lobster, mango, mayo, mushrooms, nebraska, new york giants, octopus, onion, ontario street, orange, salmon, sashimi, seaweed, shiitake, shimeji, shrimp, sour cream, sunomono moriawase, tempura, tobanyaki, tobiko, united airlines, vinaigrette, wagyu on October 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
So, Yuki had some coupons from unused miles on United Airlines. Last night we used one at Ai Sushi. I dvr’d the Bears-Giants game and we headed down to Ontario St for some grub. Parking was a pain because all of the meters were “For Residents Only Until Oct 4″. We did find a spot [...]
Daruma
Posted in Restaurant, tagged american cuisine, avocado, babaganoush, beef, cabbage, carrot, chicken, cucumber, daikon, daruma, ebi ten, eel, elk grove, falafel, hamachi kama, japan, karage, lemon, maki roll, meatless monday, miso soup, mitsuwa, napa cabbage, nara prefecture, niku jaga, niku tofu, pea shoots, potato salad, roe, rush, sake, salad, schaumburg, shiso, shrimp, smelt, soy, sushi, tatsuga age, tatsuta age, tempura, tensuke, tofu, unakyu, wakame, yellowtail on August 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Last night Yuki and I went to see RUSH at Northerly Island. What a great band! Because of that I didn’t cook Meatless Monday, though I did eat a falafel sandwich with some babaganoush before the show to keep with the theme. I tell ya, being at the concert really drove home the point that [...]
Uichiro’s Pork Curry
Posted in Home Cooking, swine, tagged apple, bay leaf, black pepper, bouillon, butter, carrot, celery, curry powder, flour, garam masala, garlic, ginger, japan, mache, meatloaf, metric, onion, pork chop, pork curry, soy oil, soy sauce, sugar, tomatoes, turmeric, white wine, Worcestershire on May 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Alright, so I didn’t cook last night, nor did I post anything yesterday. In light of that here’s what I made Wednesday night, a Pork Curry. This recipe came from my father-in-law in Japan. He was very excited when he sent it over and translated it into English for me. Some of the measurements that [...]
Yakiniku in Kobe
Posted in Restaurant, tagged beef tongue, bibimbop, chinatown, egg, japan, kobe, korean bbq, lettuce, osaka, pickles, ribeye, sake, sausage, short rib, yakiniku on March 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Alright, going back to last November in Japan, I wanted to show you the dinner we had in Kobe. My buddy Tom lives in Osaka which is a short 25 minute train ride from Kobe. On our way to the Chinatown section to meet up with him we walked by a sake tasting. We knew [...]
Ippo
Posted in Restaurant, tagged america, ankimo, beer, black sesame seeds, briny, burgers, candied sweet potatoes, caviar, chicken fingers, cod, daigaku imo, daikon, ebisu, floral, foie gras, fugu, ginger, green bean, green onions, hamachi, herbal, ippo, izakaya, japan, kaki, land of the rising sun, las angeles, lemon, liver, macaroni, mackerel, mayonnaise, miso, monkfish, namero, oysters, ponzu, pork, pufferfish, sake, sashimi, scallions, seafood, shirako, soft roe, soy sauce, sperm sack, sushi, tartare, tempura, tokyo, tsukiji, tuna, wings on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Alright, back to the Land of the Rising Sun. Better known as Japan. Yuki was at a gathering with a bunch of her friends one of the Saturday nights we were there last November. Instead of hanging out with her parents, whom I love to spend time with, I met up with an ex-coworker of hers [...]
Blackbird
Posted in Restaurant, tagged asian pear, avocado, bait-n-switch, beautyheart radish, bisque, black bean, black chickpeas, black grape, black radish, blackbird, brittle, broccoli, brook trout, campari, cauliflower, cheese, chef kahan, chiboust, chicago, chicken, citrus, cocoa nibs, coffee, confit, cream, duck, earth, eucalyptus, fig, flageolets, foie gras, giardiniera, golden turnips, grapefruit, hazelnuts, ice cream, iced tea, jam, japan, junipers, lavender, manjari chocolate, molasses, mortadella, octopus, parnip, parsley root, pastries, pate, paul kahan, pave, pineapple, pumpkin seed, restaurant week, satsuma, satuma, sausage, semolina, sepia, shallot, short ribs, spaetzle, squab, sturgeon, sunflower seeds, sweet potatoes, tonka bean, torchon, vegetables, violet mustart, zinerman on February 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Our third Restaurant Week jaunt was for lunch yesterday at Blackbird. We had actually eaten there about 5 or 6 years ago for Yuki’s birthday dinner. I can’t remember what we ate, but I do remember being extremely impressed. We haven’t been back since but decided that a $22 pre fix lunch there was too [...]
Nikujaga
Posted in beef, Home Cooking, tagged beef, broth, carrots, chicken soup, comfort food, edamame, green beans, japan, konnyaku, meat and potato, mirin, onions, peas, pork, potatoes, rice, russet, shirataki, soy sauce, sugar, yukon gold on February 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The other night I tried my hand at making a classic home-cooking dish from Japan, Nikujaga. It is a stewed meat and potato dish that is the definition of Japanese comfort food. There are about as many different ways to make it as there are Japanese mothers (and Jewish husbands who cook for their Japanese [...]
