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Karl’s Chirashi Sushi

Adapted from La Fuji Mama

Eilene’s school break ends tomorrow and she wanted sushi for dinner this Sunday.  To make a change up from my usual maki and inari shushi I decided to do Chirashi Sushi, scatter sushi. From what I have read, this is what most Japanese housewives serve at home, partly (I understand) because they are intimidated by the Japanese master chefs who can make the cut maki’s cross section look like flowers or fish. Who knew? I just started making maki back when I was 20 because I liked it and didn’t know that I was competing with anyone.

Karl’s Chirashi Sushi

Karl’s Chirashi Sushi

If you scan through my archive of recipes you may find a number base on Japanese cuisine.  There is a reason for this that goes back to my early family life.  During the Korean War (back around when I was born), my father was a major in

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Karl’s Fish Tacos

By itself this dish is a common weekday meal in our house, because it is relatively quick, inexpensive and low fat (if you go easy on the guacamole and cheese). Any leftovers may be used the next morning as either cold fish tacos (still very good) or fried up with eggs for a really tasty omelet. It is also easy to scale this recipe up or down depending on how many people you have, as written it is good for 4 diners. Since I was planning to make Mexican Rice and Refried Beans to go with the tacos I knew that there would be plenty for a Sunday of five hungry people.

Fish tacos and the best rice and beans ever

Karl’s Fish Tacos with
Karl’s Mexican Rice and Refried Beans

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Karl’s Yosenabe

Adapted from http://rasamalaysia.com which adapted it from “Japanese Hot Pots: Comforting One-Pot Meals

Yosenabe is a type of nabemono or one-pot dish. At first glance the Yosenabe recipes on the Internet were very similar and the directions were few (i.e. chop everything up, throw it into the pot and cook until done).

Karl’s Yosenabe

Karl’s Yosenabe Dinner

The traditional nabe pot is a fairly deep, round bottomed pot with a wooden lid that fits inside the edges of the pot.  I am using a wide 2 inch deep flat bottom electric pot.  For the amount of soup I made, a 3 inch deep pot would have been better. I struggled to keep the soup from boiling over onto the table.

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Karl’s Salmon Teriyaki BBQ on a Cedar Plank

Serve with Wild Rice Pilaf and Mesclun, Cucumber and Tomato Salad.

Karl’s Salmon Teriyaki BBQ on a Cedar Plank

Karl’s Salmon Teriyaki BBQ on a Cedar Plank

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Karl’s Crawdaddy Corn Chowder II

We love the crawdads at Crawdaddy on King Street in San Jose, but at $10 a pound (unshelled) it gets very expensive to make a meal of them. Crawdaddy has 4 levels of heat: mild, medium, hot, and fire. We once got their hot and the only thing we have ever had that was hotter was real Thai soup. Their mild is spicy enough for most palettes. To stretch this special treat I use 2 pounds of crawdads as a soup base (which produces about ½ pound of meat) and comes with about 2 cups of their boil sauce which has lots of garlic. To boost the meat content I also add some langoustine and shrimp. The soup with Olive Oil Garlic Bread and Tomato and Cucumber Salad is this meal:

Karl’s Crawdaddy Corn Chowder II

Olive Oil Garlic Bread
Tomato and Cucumber Salad
Karl’s Crawdaddy Corn Chowder II

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Karl’s Aegean Kakavia (beautiful fish stew) with garlic toast

Karl’s Aegean Kakavia

Adapted from Jamie Does…

Original recipe calls for potatoes, but I replace it with garlic toast (recipe follows).

Original Note: What’s great about this recipe is that you can use whatever fish you like. Sea Bass, Wrasse, Pickerel, Pollock, Bream or Red Mullet all work well. You could even use lobster if you have it and feel like splashing out! Just talk to your fishmonger and get him to recommend a few of his freshest fish. Greek fishermen make this out at sea, using whatever they’ve hauled into their boat that day, and cooking it in seawater. That’s how I learnt to make this. Because their water is ready salted they don’t need any seasoning at all to achieve a perfectly delicious stew. Genius! Try to use a mixture of fish, so you get all sorts of different flavors and colors in this wonderful stew.

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