Several of the recipes I am making for this Sunday’s dinner called for dashi—a few tablespoons here and a cup there. If I’m going to make dashi, I might as well make a miso soup. However, since I am making a lot of dishes this meal, I wanted it to be a simple soup with only a few ingredients.
Karl’s Enoki Miso Soup
Filed under Side Dishes, Soups
I am making a Japanese feast this Sunday and—with my family’s dietary concerns—I need to make the starch dish separately. In most Japanese rice dishes the rice is cooked and then things are added to the plain rice. Takikomi gohan is “similar to Japanese maze gohan (mixed rice), but where maze gohan involves mixing cooked ingredients and seasonings into precooked rice, to prepare takikomi gohan, ingredients and seasonings are combined with uncooked rice and [then] cooked together.”
Karl’s Takikomi Gohan
Filed under California Fusion, Rice, Side Dishes, Vegan
Adapted from a Maangchi recipe
In addition to my main dishes of japchae and bulgogi, I made several Korean vegetable sides. I am new to Korean food, but I made some changes to the original recipe. I had bought some garlic chive stem (aka scapes) for a dinner that didn’t happen and I thought to uses them for my Korean dinner.
Karl’s Garlic Chive Stem Kimchi
Filed under California Fusion, Side Dishes, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
This dressing started out as a dipping sauce for Vietnamese summer rolls. Jan really likes it. It has become a standard dressings for salads at our house.
Karl’s Peanut Dressing
Filed under California Fusion, Chicken, Salads, Sauces and Spices
Last week, Jan really liked the za’atar corn I made and as I was thinking about a weekday meal I suggested that I could add that spice blend to my seafood chowder. She said that if I did, I should also used yogurt—instead if cream—in the dish. So I did.
Karl’s Middle Eastern Seafood Chowder
Filed under California Fusion, Main Dishes, Potatoes, Seafood, Shrimp
When I made mitsubi for Eilene, I had leftover sushi rice. While onigiri are usually made with plain, unseasoned rice, I decided to turn the remaining rice into small rice balls. Onigiri usually have some kind of filling, with what I had on hand I chose to use Ebi Fume Furikake.
Karl’s Furikake Onigiri
Filed under California Fusion, Rice, Side Dishes
Jan’s favorite dish, when we go to a Japanese restaurant is kitsune udon. Udon is a thick wheat noodle that is a standard for a large variety of Japanese soups—both hot and cold. While kitsune refers to a fox, the distinguishing ingredient in this dish fried tofu—apparently the favorite food of the magical, Japanese, shape-shifting foxes.
Karl’s Kitsune Udon
Filed under Main Dishes, Pasta, Soups
The usual quandary of what will I make for dinner tonight? I have been looking at several Japanese cookbooks and I started craving udon soup. Thinking about what ingredients I had in my kitchen, I decided on a seafood udon soup.
Karl’s Shrimp and Scallop Udon Soup
Filed under Main Dishes, Seafood, Shrimp
I made this poke as a filling for my onigiri, but it could easily be served just as it is with maybe some steamed rice.
Karl’s Poke
Filed under Salads, Side Dishes
It is a weekday meal and I wanted something simple and quick. I decided on broiled salmon, but how to make it special? I make a lot of marmalades—most of which I give away—but I usually have a few flavors in my kitchen. Today, I chose the lemon and dill goes nicely with lemon.
Karl’s Broiled Salmon with Lemon Marmalade and Dill
Filed under Broiling, California Fusion, Fish, Main Dishes, Seafood
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