Food Blog

Last year I raved about Nobu’s famous Black Cod with Miso. A few weeks ago I saw that Whole foods had this wonderful fish formerly known as sable fish. I followed Nobu’s black cod recipe although I used less sake and used regular miso, not white miso as called for. I also marinated the […]

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With a salt cod from Lincolnwood Produce, a few spuds and an onion, this is a fairly simple dish, but it does take some time, and isn’t cheap. The salt cod (Bakalao) is $8.50 a lb. at a very cheap market, and takes at least 24 hours to soak.

I’ve modified this recipe with a few […]

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I’ve realized I’ve got lots of pictures of food that I haven’t written up yet. This is probably due to the way I cook. Sometimes I’ll use a recipe as an aid, but normaly, I’m just throwing things into a pan that were in my frig or pantry. After I’m done, I can’t remember what […]

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This one is killer. I complain about the prices at Whole Foods all the time, but there’s no way you could make this meal with stuff from Jewel or Dominicks. The sea scallops, were around 16 bucks a lb. but were large and bursting with sweet scallopyness. The smooth sweetness of the papaya, asian pear […]

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Here’s a couple of shots of some recent meals.
First the pretty one. A big slab of cheap salmon lasts me awhile, and I like making un-authentic sushi with it. It’s pan browned, then I put some rice on top of it and roll it in wakame (”A most popular, deeply nourishing sea vegetable, hand harvest […]

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This sounds fancy, but it just a variation on tuna salad sandwiches. This is the kind of thing I eat when I don’t feel like cooking, it’s fast, but it allows me to play with variations of veggies or spiciness each time I do it. The salmon is from a can and the biscuits are […]

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Inspired by Drew’s comment about what to do with pollock, I though I’d try my hand at frying the remainder of my salmon slab. You probably would think frying salmon is crazy but I figured if the batter was a light tempura, rather than the thick bready batter usually found coating fish with chips, it […]

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One of the best deals I’ve found in my local Dominic’s is the bulk salmon. It’s not the best salmon out there, but when you can buy 3 lbs. of it for $10, and get 4-5 meals out of it, it is certianly worth it. This meal is made with a healthy 8-9 oz. fillet […]

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If this was going to appear on a menu it would read: Pine Nut Encrusted Salmon with Cerely Root, Parsnip, Cucumber Salsa, on Wasabi Buttered Somen.
Okay, so it’s not technically a salsa, but it was damn good.
I bought one of those big slabs of salmon that are always on sale at Dominick’s, and while not […]

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On Sunday I found a Japanese market in Wilmette called Sea Ranch, (3217 W. Lake, Lake and Skokie Blvd.). While not a replacement for Mitsuwa, this place has a good assortment of Japanese hardware, packaged stuff, including candy and snacks, frozen stuff and strange produce, both fresh and packaged (pickled burdock root for example). I […]

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