If you have been to visit an Izakaya restaurant, you may have had this kind of dish. It is called as “Otsukuri.” Otsukuri is a style of sashimi dish which is nicely decorated or has head and tail. Above photograph sashimi is not “nicely decorated….” Sashimi is also famous Japanese food as same as Sushi. […]
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RSS feed for this sectionTsuboyaki of Turban Shell (Sazae-no-Tsuboyaki)
“Tsuboyaki” is Japanese and I don’t have any idea how to translate it into English. Its express about the way of cooking. It just grills shell itself. This style is popular for BBQ on the beach, so it may be good as “Turban Shell BBQ.” Ingredietns Turban shell soy sauce sake for cooking (optional) How […]
Grilled Miso Marinated Fish (Saikyo-zuke)
Above picture is main dish for a dinner of one day, grilled fish dipped in miso (Saikyo-zuke) and Japanese style omelet (Tamago-yaki). Normally Saikyo-zuke is cooked with Saikyo miso and dip fish meat in miso based sauce for 2 or 3 days in refrigerator. It is popular especially in Kansai area (west part of Japan). […]
Sea bream soup (Ushio-jiru)
Ushio-jiru is a very simple soup made of sea food. It is a food of fishermen originally. The basis of the soup is only soup stock from fish or shell and salt. It has gentle and elegant taste. One day, I got a whole sea bream (about 25cm long) and cut it into 3 parts, […]