Arima Sansho Has Arrived

Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com – * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/finding-arima-sansho/ Thank you to Sakanaya in Allston, MA and to Yoshi Kawamura for getting this ingredient to me in a timely way!  Now to schedule time to make Iron Chef Michiba’s “Beef With Lotus Root, Snow Peas And Arima Sansho”.  And of course, I’m going to have to find time […]

Engagement Anniversary ‘Omakase’ At Home 2012

Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com – * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/making-sushi-rice/ * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/nobus-arroz-con-pollo-and-edamame-with-salt-and-truffle-oil/ * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/nobu-engagement-anniversary-dinner-at-home/ * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/nobu-weekend-dinner-at-home/ So we decided to move the engagement anniversary dinner for this year to 26 May 2012.  Since now I was doing the anniversary meal on the weekend, I thought it might be nice to see if I could do a multi-course menu for […]

Making Sushi Rice

So I thought I try to add another skill to my bag of tricks in the kitchen.  I’ve never made sushi before, so I thought I might start on at least trying to make sushi rice (aka shari).  In Nobu: The Cookbook, the recipe size seemed to make an awful lot of sushi rice, more […]

Finding Arima Sansho

I recently saw an offering from Iron Chef Michiba which could be best described as wagyu beef, lotus root (aka renkon), snow peas with arima sansho in sukiyaki sauce.  An online translation of the offering can be found here: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.michiba-shunsara.jp%2Fmenu%2Fsz002.html&act=url and the video of Iron Chef Michiba making the dish can be found here – […]

Nobu’s Arroz Con Pollo and Edamame With Salt And Truffle Oil

Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com – * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/baby-spinach-salad-with-dried-miso-and-arroz-con-frutas-de-mar/ * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/morimoto%E2%80%99s-sweetfish-and-rice-red-snapper-and-rice-two/ As I’d mentioned in the writeup about the arroz con frutas de mar, I wanted to try and make Nobu’s Arroz Con Pollo (from Nobu Now, p. 218). But to begin the meal,  I thought I’d try and execute an appetizer from Nobu Perth (since it seemed […]

Baked Eggplant With Kinzanji Miso

Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/nobu-chilean-seabass-with-jalapeno-moro-miso/ * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/nobu-seafood-less-eggplant-special/ So my wife was making Sunday night dinner and she asked me to come up with an appetizer.  We had chinese eggplant (“nasu” in Japanese).  So I thought “great!  I’ve got kinzanji moromi miso, so why not do the very first recipe from Nobu Miami: The Party Cookbook […]

Ingredient Alert: Truffle Salt

Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com – * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/baked-cabbage-nobu-style/ As you may recall, I couldn’t get truffle salt for this dish.  About a week after I had came back from my Troy/Albany, NY roadtrip with my wife, I discovered Whole Foods, Newtonville had begun carrying the item!