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Hirame no Mushiyaki (steamed flounder)

January 23, 2009
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Before I get into this simple, healthy dish, a few unrelated updates. Voting for Well Fed Network’s Best New Blog award closes Saturday and as of this writing we’re trailing the leader by a mere 34 votes. If you haven’t already, I hope you’ll take a minute to cast your vote I also [...]

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Salmon Oyako Wappa Meshi

November 16, 2008
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One of my favourite Japanese restaurants in San Francisco is Maki. It’s a little hole in the wall in Japan Center next to a bookstore and while it would be hard to go wrong with anything on the menu, their specialty is Wappa Meshi. It’s a steamed rice dish that’s a specialty of the Fukishima [...]

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Steamed Curry Fish Cakes in Cucumber Water

July 12, 2008
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This is another one of those weird ideas that came to me in a day dream about food. When I get these ideas I send them to myself by email so I don’t forget them, then when I have a bit of time (or the right ingredients) I can give it a go. It’s been [...]

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Choi sum goma-ae (chinese greens with sesame sauce)

May 6, 2008
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After the meat bomb the past 2 nights, I was feeling a need for some cleansing today and decided to do a nice light Japanese veggie (well almost) dinner. By the time I got home from work, I was starving, so I cut up some lebanese cucumbers into bite size sticks and wrapped them in [...]

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Banana peel steamed pork and rice

April 25, 2008
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Last week, I was sitting in a product meeting at work. Our CTO was eating a banana and as he set the peel down on the table it struck me that it would make the perfect vessel to hold food. Since then I’ve been mulling over all the different ways one could cook food in [...]

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Steamed and salt cured uni

March 23, 2008
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So sea urchin might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but I made this the other day and it makes for a simple appetizer.
Uni’s creamy, uniformly rich texture makes it a bit like the foie gras of the sea (minus the animal rights abuses). I like to give it two different treatments to add a [...]

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