Tuna Steak

 

I used frozen yellow fin tuna for the steak. Generally I don't like frozen fish so much, but as for tuna I prefer frozen one. I think I over cooked a little bit. I liked it rare. The sauce for the tuna was soy sauce, mirin, ponzu and wasabi mixture and black sesame seed.

Sides are from left hijiki, spinach with bonito flake and scrambled tofu with vegetable.

Healthy Meat Loaf Aug. 12

 

I call it Healthy Meat Loaf because I added tofu and grated carrot. One pound of meat and 1 package of tofu (squeeze out water). Roasted fingering potato and sauteed green beans on the side. Other side dishes are shungiku salad and kimpira gobo.

Tofu Chigae

 
 
Chigae is Korean spicy stew with beef, tofu and vegetables. I don't make it very hot, but if you have chigae at Korean restaurant, it could be really hot. Shinho likes it.


Next one is kind of escabeche. I pan fried salmon not deep fried and marinated in rice vineger dressing with sliced onion.

Rolled Pork

 
 
I love shiso, Japanese basil. I use them in many ways this summer. Today I made shiso rolled pork. First marinate thin sliced pork in soy sauce and sake mixture. Then spread sliced pork, put shiso on top and roll. Dust it with flour and deep fry. If you like it more crunchy, use panko for coating.


Side dishes are same old cucumber(sunomono), sauteed spinach with egg and deep fried eggplant in tempura sauce.

Summer Chirashi Sushi

 

We had lunch with a couple whom we met recently at YMCA. I made chirashi sushi. I call it summer sushi, because I put summer vegetable like cucumber and shiso. They brought us vegetables from their garden. So I used those vegetables for dinner. Ingen no gomaae (string beans), shungiku no ohitashi, sauteed zucchini with garlic and sesame and left over from the lunch. Vegetables are very fresh and very good.

King Crab

 
 
Today is my mother's actual birthday. We already had wonderful birthday dinner last Saturday, so I just made her favorite food, crab. I made crab egg fu-yong. It is Chinese version of crab meat omlet. She also enjoyed king crab legs with lemon. (no melted butter for her)

I think Shinho enjoyed both birthday dinner more than my mother.

Grandma's Birthday

 
 

We celebrated my mother's 85th birthday today. Paul, Jane and her mother came and they brought sushi which Peter made and black cod. Thank you, Jane, Peter and Paul. They were so delicious!!!
I made tritip bulkogi, and several kinds of vegetables.

We ate and talked a lot and had a wonderful time together. My mother looked very happy.