We made #yakitori for dinner today. Had negima, other chicken, steak, bacon-wrapped tomatoes, as well as summer rolls. Ate it as it came off the grill, so don't have a picture of everything. Attached is steak, tomatoes, and sausage.
#Japan #JapaneseFood #dining #cooking #grilling #YoshikosKitchen
Next up in #YoshikosKitchen is the #udon we had for lunch today.
Sort of Kitsune udon, but with some twists --- like the tempura'ed jalapeño. Yoshiko tweaked the dashi just a little, and it was excellent.
The tempura was left over from last night. The inari wrappers were left over from a few days ago, when Yoshiko made inari zushi.
She made the broth this morning, boiled the #noodles, and put it all together with some chopped negi and shichimi.
Finally synced my photos with my computer, so time for some #YoshikosKitchen.
First is a #bento Yoshiko made for me near the end of September. She ordered the box from Japan. Very light weight wood, but reusable.
Anyhow, two-layer bento, with tamago yaki, tomatoes, pickled beets, okura, cucumbers and carrots in the bottom. Top has rice with salmon flakes, tsukemono, and those big beans that are slightly sweet.
It was delicious.
I'm a bit triggered by a recent podcast where the hosts disrespected Japanese cuisine. Basically, "I don't like fish, so I don't like #JapaneseFood". Like, WTF? Have they never heard of soba, udon, katsudon, tonkatsu, kare pan, yakisoba, yaki-freaking-niku, or okonomiyaki? Hiyashi chuuka? I might point them to #YoshikosKitchen for some educating.
Speaking of which ... eggplant mabo dofu attached. Yoshiko tweaked the recipe a little.
Off this weekend and next; we're between #AdultESOL terms. Class for next term is full, so looking forward to that starting up.
Yoshiko took today off, so we're going to have a fun day of doing stuff around the house, taking it easy, maybe running a few errands, walking the dogs, and #cooking.
I have a backlog of #YoshikosKitchen pics to post here. Will have more by tonight and will try to post some today or tomorrow.
(also doing: encfs => gocryptfs and #CyberSecurity homework)
Had a #Yoshiko original
#charcuterie for dinner today. Yoshiko made it all basically from scratch (save for the meat and cheese, of course).
Ridiculously delicious. Also, we're almost 'Thanksgiving dinner' full. Only carbs were the flatbread crackers, though.
I include the #JapaneseFood tag because the potato salad and the carrot and tuna salad are Yoshiko originals inspired by traditional Japanese recipes. Also, the avocado recalls sashimi cuts.
Lunch was delicious today. #Yoshiko is practicing #nigiri #sushi again - it has been a while. She made this for lunch today, with some fish she got yesterday. I don't remember what the white fish were - hamachi and ??? - but I think the tuna is toro. And of course, got to have at least one shrimp.
She also made the ume and cucumber hosomaki.
Not pictured: the inarizushi she made to use up the sushi rice.
#YoshikosKitchen #cooking #JapaneseFood
edit: added a few hashtags
We spent a couple of hours making #shogatsu dinner while watching #kohaku. Our biggest, bestest meal of the year.
In #Kanazawa, #Yoshiko, her mom, and her sister would spend much of the morning preparing a truly staggering amount of wonderful food. My job was to watch tv and drink beer with otoosan.
Now, we make #osechiryori (-inspired food) for just us, but still a family tradition worth keeping, wherever we are living.
We are very full.
We made #paella for dinner on the 25th. Not bad for our second attempt at the recipe we got in #Barcelona.
Unfortunately, we couldn't find proper paella rice, so made due with some other short grain that we had.
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