Oden is Japanese home cooking at it’s finest as well as being a favorite winter-time treat. While the ingredients can vary, the basis of oden is to have a slightly salty dashi broth filled with fish cakes, daikon, konnyaku, hard-boiled eggs, and potatoes. Slowly simmered and warm in the belly, this is true comfort food. In [...]
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Oden
Posted in Home Cooking, seafood, tagged anchovies, anchovy, burdock root, carrot, chikuwa, comfort food, daikon, dashi, eggs, fish cakes, green onions, hard-boiled eggs, japanese, konnyaku, kosher salt, medium boiled eggs, mirin, mitsuwa, oden, potatoes, russet potatoes, sesame seeds, shirataki, soy sauce, stew, white rice on January 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Salmon – Japanese Flavor
Posted in Home Cooking, seafood, tagged butter, cherry tomatoes, dashi, garlic, japanese, kobe, mirin, miso, miso soup, napa cabbage, onion, parsley, ribeye, sake, salmon, sesame oil, shiitake, soy, tensuke, tofu, wakame, yellow bell pepper on January 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We journeyed up to Arlington Heights this weekend to stock up on Japanese ingredients, something we do at least once a month. At the Tensuke Market we saw this absolutely gorgeous salmon. They have the best seafood in town, hands down. This salmon was marbled like a real Kobe Ribeye, just made our mouths water. So, that [...]
Foil Packet Salmon
Posted in Home Cooking, seafood, tagged bean sprouts, bok choy, butter, carrot, garlic, green onion, japanese, ponzu, salmon, sesame seeds, shiitake, tofu, white rice on December 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I like cooking salmon in foil packets because it’s a super easy and delicious way to get a lot of vegetables in your meal with maximum flavor. The other night I made some salmon packets with Japanese flavor. My ingredient list included some bean sprouts, butter, 1 carrot cut in to matchsticks, 1 clove of garlic [...]
Broiled Tofu with Daikon Kimchi and Ganmodoki Soup
Posted in Home Cooking, Meatless Monday, Vegetarian, tagged apple, bean sprouts, bulgolgi, butter lettuce, carrot, daikon, dashi, enoki, fish sauce, ganmodoki, garlic, ginger, granny smith, green onion, japanese, kimchi, korean, kosher salt, lemon, meatless monday, mitsuwa, mushroom, napa cabbage, onion, pickle, sea salt, sesame oil, sesame seed, shiitake, sichuan, soy sauce, sugar, toban djan, tofu, white rice on October 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I made some daikon kimchi and really wanted to build a Meatless Monday around it. I thought I was going to make a tofu bulgolgi to stick with the Korean theme, but the marinade turned out nothing like a bulgolgi. It was very asian though so I used some ganmodoki we had bought at Mitsuwa [...]
Matzo Ball Soup with Shiso-Shiitake Wonton Crisps
Posted in Home Cooking, poultry, tagged bay leaf, carrot, celery, chicken, chicken soup, cuisinart, deep fryer, egg, eggroll wrap, garlic, green onion, japanese, jewish, matza ball, olive oil, onion, oregano, shiitake, shiso, soy sauce, wonton on September 2, 2010 | 3 Comments »
After Tuesday night’s overly complex debacle of a meal we wanted something clean and simple for dinner last night. Yuki had requested my matzo ball soup, so that’s what I gave her. (feel free to insert any number of jokes) The ingredients I use for my chicken soup are 1 diced onion, 3 medium carrots chopped, [...]
Japanese Pho?
Posted in Home Cooking, seafood, tagged baby spinach, bean sprouts, broccoli, carrot, cilantro, cloves, coriander, dashi-no-moto, fish cake, ginger, green onion, japanese, pho, rice noodles, sesame oil, shiitake, soy sauce, sriracha, star anise, tensuke market, tofu, vegetable stock, vietnamese on August 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last night I made some noodle soup using Vietnamese rice noodles, pho-like broth, and Japanese fish cakes. Not sure what to call this dish, so I’ll just call it Japanese Pho. It was very simple to make and actually tasted really really good. First thing I did was make the broth base. I crushed 1 [...]
Arami
Posted in Restaurant, tagged adzuki, akami, ankimo, asian pear, bamboo, blue fin tuna, california roll, chicago, donburi, egg, eggshell, ganache, gelatin, gelato, ginger, green tea, ice cream, japanese, kelp, kimchi, lemon, liver, meyer lemon, mochi, monkfish, muscato, noodles, pepper, philly roll, pork belly, pot de creme, ramen, reclaimed wood, rice, sake, scallion, seaweed, short rib, soy, sushi, tofu, togarashi, torii, tuna, vinegar, wasabi on August 21, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Last weekend I did a little searching to try to find the best ramen noodles in Chicago. It’s damn near impossible to find a good, authentic bowl of Japanese ramen in this town as all Japanese restaurants seem to be the same neighborhood sushi joint serving up Americanized sushi (ie- California Roll, Dragon Roll, Philly [...]
Tamari Yakigyu
Posted in beef, Home Cooking, tagged bamboo, beef, carrot, charlie trotter, garlic, ginger, hijiki, japanese, mandolin slicer, mirin, miso, onion, radish, sake, sesame oil, shiitake, sirloin, soy, soy oil, tamari, vodka, wheat, white rice, yakigyu on August 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I was perusing my Charlie Trotter cookbook the other day and came across a recipe that uses a very similar marinade to one I often use. Since he’s the great Charlie Trotter I thought I’d give his a try. Oh, and yakigyu is simply Japanese for grilled beef. His marinade consisted of 1/2 cup of [...]
