On Demand Gochujang

Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com – * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2017/04/24/nobu-toro-rossa-sauce/* https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2020/12/05/reproducing-michibas-korean-style-monkfish-stew-pot/* https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2021/05/15/a-dinner-idea-inspired-by-lamb-ribchops-morimoto-doha/* https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2024/03/09/on-chili-garlic-sauce/ In the continuing quest to replace my chili products, I now needed to find a way to make gochujang paste with my recently acquired package of Lakehouse Farms Gochugaru. I suppose I was in the same situation Matsuhisa-sama was in when he first went to Peru […]

Morimoto’s Ranch Dressing

Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com –* https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/vegetable-marinated-fish-nobu-style/ So this weekend, I wanted to make my take on Nobu’s umami chicken wings. In preparation to make that dish, I saved up all my vegetable scraps, peels and trimmings to make his umami marinade. And into that marinade went about 1.5 lbs of chicken wings. However, I observed that […]

Sauce Zugoise

Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com – * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2023/04/15/savory-custards/ If memory serves, back in 1991, I was fortunate enough to visit Lucerne and walk the grounds of Tribshen. While visiting this Swiss city, I stayed at Hotel Wilden Mann (https://www.wilden-mann.ch/en).  While there, I had the opportunity to enjoy, as I understand it, a dish particular to that region […]

Morimoto Goma Ae

So I’d been thinking of vegan offerings for a hassun or possibly even a sakizuke course. One of the things that came to mind was Iron Chef Morimoto’s Ingen no Goma Ae offering from his Mastering The Art Of Japanese Home Coooking (p. 226, 227). So instead of regular string beans, I thought “why not […]

A breakfast sandwich

Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com – * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2024/03/17/nobu-creamy-spicy-scallops-dynamite/ A long time ago when I was working in Manhattan, I used to grab a ‘Manhattan’ bagel breakfast sandwich at a deli sitting on W32nd St/Broadway…….fast forward years into the future….Recently, the weather was rather rainy here and I didn’t feel like going outside to grab some breakfast. Fortunately […]

Carbonara, Morimoto-Style

Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com – * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2023/08/25/fernand-point-sole-duglere/ * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2023/04/15/savory-custards/ * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/dashi-soy/ I’m not as big a pasta person as my wife is, but I will occasionally indulge in a decent bowl of ramen or carbonara when I got out to eat.  That being said, I was thinking about making carbonara at home and then I came […]

Nobu Creamy Spicy Scallops “Dynamite”

Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com – * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/bluefish-and-creamy-spicy-sauce/* https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2024/03/09/on-chili-garlic-sauce/ Given the recent scramble in replacing a number of my store bought chili products, it occurred to me the best way to test my microbatch of Nobu Miami chili garlic sauce recipe would be make Matsuhisa-sama’s Scallops With Creamy Spicy Sauce from Nobu: The Cookbook (p. 36,37). In […]