One thing I like to do is to take a traditional recipe and put a California spin on it. Daughters Miriam and Eilene love Japanese curry. I decided to take the curry out of the stew and marinate my chicken wings with it.
Karl’s Japanese Curry Chicken Wings
Filed under California Fusion, Chicken, Main Dishes, Sauces and Spices
I am making a twist on Japanese curry this Sunday. I did not want to use the commercial curry cubes that most recipes for Japanese curry call for. Looking on-line at some recipes for Japanese curry spice blends, I created my own blend.
Karl’s Curry Powder for Japanese Curry
Filed under Sauces and Spices, Stews, Vegan, Vegetarian
I had marinated the vegetables for the potato salad that I made to go with my Japanese curry wings. This left a half cup of slightly used pickle marinade that I did not want to waste. I decided to slice some cucumber and lightly marinate it for a second side dish.
Karl’s Japanese Lightly Marinated Cucumbers
Filed under Pickles, Side Dishes
A classic of modern Japanese cuisine is Japanese curry. I decided to deconstruct this dish into barbecued wings, but this left me with all of the other ingredients of the dish—potatoes and carrots, apples, etc. I decided that turning them into a potato salad would be a good side dish for my barbecue.
Karl’s Japanese Style Potato Salad with Indian Influences
Filed under Salads, Side Dishes
I am making Japanese curry wings for Sundays dinner. Eilene asked for rice pudding for dessert and wife Jan seconded the motion. I have just made mandarin marmalade, so it seemed reasonable to add this to the mix.
Karl’s Mandarin Rice Pudding
Filed under California Fusion
I have learned over time that you can make marmalade out of any citrus fruit. Jan had asked me to buy some mandarin oranges, but she was having trouble peeling them with her broken arm. I decided that I needed to use them up before they spoiled.
Karl’s Mandarin Marmalade
Filed under California Fusion, Vegan, Vegetarian
I am constantly looking for new recipes to try for our Sunday dinners. I had thought of fish stew, but daughter Miriam has to have her meals without garlic or onions. I had suggested a yosenabe, but she felt that that would be too sweet. I settled on a “French(-ish) fish stew, but these frequently have fennel, which she is also not very fond of—and, truth be told, neither am I.
Karl’s French Provincial Bourride Fish Stew
Filed under Main Dishes, Seafood, Soups
The Provincial fish soup I was making for Sunday’s dinner had fairly few vegetables. I decided that I needed a green salad to go with it. I had recently made orange infused sugar—which always leaves me with three navel oranges to use up. I decided to add the orange segments to my greens. The coconut garnish was a last minute inspiration.
Karl’s Arugula, Spinach, and Orange Salad
Filed under Salads, Side Dishes, Vegan, Vegetarian
Jan’s Fresno friends come to San Jose every year for the Quilt Festival and we feed and put them up every year. Pat likes chicken and Barb does not eat tomato, so a coq au vin came to mind as a dish that they would both would like. In my mind, red wine never seemed to go with chicken, I prefer a coq au vin with a nice white wine.
Karl’s Coq au Vin Blanc
with Chive Butter Dumplings
Filed under California Fusion, Chicken, Main Dishes, Stews
Japanese is one of my “go to” cuisines when I am planning a meal. A typical Japanese meal usually includes a selection of different small side dishes—with a variety of textures, colors, and flavors. For this dinner, I have some dishes developed to just the way I like them, some I have made so often that I had never posted any version—doesn’t everyone know how to make norimaki? Finally, there are the dishes I am still experimenting with.
Karl’s Japanese Sunday Dinner
Filed under Main Dishes, Side Dishes
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