Three Vinegar Syrup

While thinking about what to make for dinner for my wife and I this week, I came across Chef Ming Tsai’s “Three Vinegar Syrup” in his Simply Ming book.  The syrup was simple enough to make – http://ming.com/foodandwine/recipes/season-1/three-vinegar-syrup.htm …so I made a half batch. One thing I remembered about doing this dish – the recipe mentions […]

Roasted Chilean Seabass With Michiba Kanpon Vinaigrette

Originally, this recipe was Foie Gras Kanpon as featured in Iron Chef Michiba’s first match. I’ve been meaning to try this recipe for ages since I bought a copy of Iron Chef: The Official Book a number of years ago.   But since my wife isn’t really fond of foie, I began thinking of how I […]

Recreating A Morimoto Omakase Dish

At the end of Dec 2010, my wife and I had the opportunity to enjoy another wonderful omakase meal at Morimoto NYC.  One of the courses that was offered was a steam poached/braised snapper.  It was an elegantly simple and wonderfully satisfying dish.  After a short conversation with our omakase chef, Ariki Omae,   I […]

Quote Of The Day

…Third, I included at least one dish that a layman could prepare. I wanted the viewers to think, “I can prepare that too.”… -Iron Chef Rokusaburo Michiba on dishes for an Iron Chef match (from Iron Chef: The Official Book, p. 84)  

Morimoto, NYC

Omakase 12/21/09 (Hitoshi Aita) Toro Tartar – Osetra, wasabi, nori, chive, guacamole, arare, yamamomo, baby shiso, benitade, special soy Morimoto ‘New Style’ Sashimi – Hirame, shima aji, kinmedai, garlic, ginger, mitsuba, grape tomato, kabosu soy, hot oil Tasting Of Fugu – *    Sashimi, baby shiso/poached skin, spicy ume ponzu *    Kama/spine tempura, sudachi Foie Gras/Tofu […]

Nobu-Style Saikyo Miso

It goes without saying that this miso is crucial to Nobu’s famous black cod signature dish. It was also crucial to one of the omakase dishes that Matsuhisa-san himself served to my-now wife and I during our engagement dinner – the toro ‘steak’ with nori karashi su miso sauce.  It’s probably one of my wife’s […]

On Suimono

As I mentioned in my prior writing on dashi, one of the simple dishes that left an impression on me was the suimono years ago at Shinwa in Alpine. Kiku Alpine now resides in the old Shinwa location now. My family and I decided to have a teppanyaki dinner at Kiku Alpine 19 Dec 2010.  […]