Garlic Ginger Sweet Potato Soup From Simply Ming

So my wife surprised me by getting two 15 ounce cans of sweet potato puree from Whole Foods, Newtonville and asked if I could make soup with dinner!  She really wanted sweet potato soup.  Fortunately, I remembered the sweet potato soup that I’d had a Ming Tsai’s Blue Ginger several months back and realized I […]

The Masago Arare has arrived!

Thank you to Nobu Okamoto@Azuma Food International in NJ for helping to get this product to me via Ebisuya in Somerville, MA! So, for what applications would I use this product? I can think of Ocha Zuke and Iron Chef Morimoto’s Tartare for starters!

Salmon En Croute, Yuzu Dill Sauce

Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com – * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2014/01/25/individual-beef-wellingtons Ingredients do not recognize national boundaries -Iron Chef Michiba …After dinner at one of Morimoto’s restaurants, diners often say to him, ‘We love what we’ve eaten, but it was not Japanese food.’ His response, ‘Why isn’t it Japanese, and why must it be?’  –Morimoto: The New Art of Japanese Cooking […]

Shabu Shabu

When I was growing up, my folks would occasionally have sukiyaki and shabu shabu at home.  With the bad weather this past weekend, my wife suggested it might be nice if we did a shabu shabu for dinner.  This is what she had in mind: But a shabu shabu isn’t complete without dipping sauces.  I […]