Spicy chicken with leek

 
 
This is like spicy teriyaki chicken topped with leek salad. I had leek in my fridge, so I dressed julienne leek with soy sauce and sesami oil. I think it goes very well with chicken.

One of the vegetable dish was cauliflower, broccoli and snap pea with miso dressing.

Fish and chips

 

Not exactly the one you eat at the restaurant. It got garlic flavor and panko breaded. I oven roasted fingering potato with olive oil and thyme.
Side vegetables are spinach, tomato and corn salad, green beans with peanut sauce and hijiki which I got from Satsuma. We went to Bistro Satsuma last night for dinner and after we finished our dinner, the owner's wife gave us hijiki.

Cod with chili bean sauce

 
 

I almost run out of my repertory. It is getting hard to think of new recipe. Please give me some new idea, somebody.

Today I made cod with chili bean sauce. Browned sliced cod in a frying pan. Removed fish and saute chopped garlic, ginger and scallion. Return fish into the pan. Add soy sauce, sake, brown sugar and hot chili bean paste and cook for a few minutes.
One of the side dish here is asparagus with oyster sauce.

Steak a la Japonais

 

I got Japanese eggplant and wanted to make shigiyaki. I also got fillet mignon. Shigiyaki doesn't go well with regular steak, so I made sweet soy sauce similar to teriyaki sauce for the steak. Medium rare and roasted cauliflower on the side. It was delicious. Even my mother liked it. The other side dishes were Japanese potato salad, spinach namul.

Dinner at Green House July 29

We had dinner at the Green House Restaurant in Gig Harbor. My mother, Shinho and me.
We shared two appetizers, Ahi Poke Napoleon and Steamed Clam. Both were good. Portion was generous. For main, we chose from chalk board menu. Mom had Seared Scallop, Shinho had NY strip steak and I had Pan roasted trout with arugula sauce. They were good but not fabulous, a little bit bland, needed more flavor. For instance my trout tasted like they forgot salt and pepper before pan roasted it. The arugula sauce looked beautiful and creamy but did not have much flavor from arugula. We had two dessert, creme brulee and strawberry shortcake. They were good. The best part was we got 15% discount.(Before 6PM 55 and over get 15% discount on appetizer and main.)

Tofu with crab meat

 

This is very easy dish. It only takes several minutes from start to finish. In a wok or stir fry pan heat canola oil and add chopped garlic, ginger and scallion. Sautee for a couple of minutes then add crab meat, sake and chicken broth. Bring to boil, then add diced tofu and cook for a few minutes. In a small bawl mix 1 Tbs water and 1 Tbs potato starch and swirl into the wok and stir quickly. Add some salt and a little bit of sesami oil, as you like.

Side dishes were stir fry vegetable ( broccoli, zucchini, red bell pepper), cucumber salad (sunomono) spinach (tamago toji).

Almond crusted chicken

 
 
I found this recipe several years ago on the internet. It is very easy. Cut chicken tender into bite size and coat with minced garlic, dijon masturd, salt and pepper. In a separate bawl, mix crushed almond, panko and grated parmesan cheese. Coat the chicken with almond mixture. Then pan fry or bake it in the oven.

One of the side is scrambled egg with julienne carrot.