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Rock Shrimp Tempura From Nobu Now

Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com –* https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2024/03/17/nobu-creamy-spicy-scallops-dynamite/ My wife loves pasta.My wife loves shrimp.My wife loves tempura.Oh my. So I finally decided to go ahead and make the Rock Shrimp Tempura with Creamy Spicy Sauce from Nobu Now (p. 106, 108) as a dinner entree. It was interesting to compare the ingredient list from here: https://www.noburestaurants.com/home/nobu-at-home-2/rock-shrimp-tempura-with-creamy-spicy-sauce-2compared to […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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On Chili Garlic Sauce

Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com –* https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2020/04/24/nobu-steamed-bass-with-vegetables-and-spicy-garlic-sauce/ Recently my wife alerted me to some issues with chili peppers from Asia. Essentially, we ended up dumping all of our Korean chili flakes (gojugaru) and chili paste (gojujang). Moreover, she was extremely suspicious and also wanted to dump our jar of Lee Kum Kee chili garlic sauce which I’d […]

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Sobacha

Aside from drinking standard teas, I recently returned to drinking barley (bori-cha/mugi-char) tea to which I’d been introduced years ago at Korean restaurants. I was recently reading through my copy of World Of Nobu when I happened to come across a sobacha dessert with the following commentary from Nobu pastry chef Michele Goldsmith: Sobacha [buckwheat tea] […]

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Thanksgiving 2023

Nobu LA ‘elotes’yuzu miso aioli, parmesan, minced scallions, dry miso Nobu London Sashimi  garlic, ginger, black pepper, dry miso, shima aji, endive, scallions Nobu Anago  daikon ‘faux gras’, shiitake, tsume Pan Roasted Duck Breast, Morimoto-style  mini croissant, shredded scallion, shredded cucumber, tianmianjang Nobu London Mushroom prosciutto chawan soup black summer truffles Morimoto “stained” glass” shikaimaki Kabocha Nobu-style Bento Souffle red dragonfruit, atauflo […]

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