Halibut Cheek

 
 
 
I found halibut cheek at Costco. I've seen it on the menu at the restaurant, but I have never had it. I looked for the recipe, but I could't find good one. So I pan fried it and made lemon butter sauce with dill. I think it worked pretty well. Next dish is Chapche, Korean stir fried glass noodle with vegetables. The last one is Nikujaga, stewed potato with beef and onion.

Dinner at Yooki and Nora's

 
There are many reasons why I like San Francisco so much, but one is their farmer's market. The vegetables and fruit are so fresh and they have so many varieties. I got sweet plums and nectarines, mushroom, cherry tomato, mix green and fresh pasta and mild goat cheese. I also got beautiful sea bass. Pasta for lunch and sea bass for dinner. The sea bass was fresh and very tasty. I got asparagus and eggplant from the supermarket, but I have never seen veges as fresh as these in Gig Harbor.

Poached Halibut

 
I got this recipe from the NY Times. I think it is a Japanese recipe of nizakana. First bring to boil the mixture of soy sauce, sugar and sake and add fish fillet and scallion and gently poach until the fish is cooked through. Remove the fish from the pan and reduce the liquid until it gets thick. Pour the liquid over the fish. Very easy and fail proof.

Shabu Shabu

 
 
 
This is last night dinner with Maki.
Shabu shabu is a good family dinner in cold season. Beef should be sliced paper thin so that when you put the meat in a hot pot and swish a couple of second and it is cooked. You may cook any vegetable you like. I usually use nappa cabbage, spinach or shungiku, carrot, and enoki mushroom and tofu. I made two dipping sauce, one is gomadare (sesame) and the other one is ponzu.

Rib Steak

 
 
Yesterday's dinner was rib eye steak. Those were really big pieces of meat from Costco and were tender and delicious. Served with roasted yucon gold potato and carrot, green beans and spinach.

Fried Oyster and Albacore Sashimi

 
 
Maki is home this weekend. I am not sure this menu was Maki's idea or Shinho's,(maybe Shinho's), but everyone enjoyed the dinner. Panko breaded oysters were crispy and delicious. We tried both tartar sauce and Japanese tonkatsu sauce and we thought tartar sauce is better.

Albacore sashimi was very good, too.

Sward Fish and Salmon Kama

 
 
Shinho bought salmon heads from Albertson. Fish head is a sort of delicacy in Japan. We had Hamachi head (we call it kama) at the restaurant Satsuma and it was really good. Shinho grilled it and it sure was delicious. Very fatty.
I made grilled sward fish. I marinated fish in soy sauce, lemon juice and cumin and curry powder.