Feeding Umi

Kris suggested that we come over and Ryan make his famous green curry. It’s surprising how many people struggle with it, when all it is is fish sauce flavoring and palm sugar. That’s it. That’s the secret. Anyway, it was a great opportunity to see the latest addition. Little Lulu! Kris saved her from a [...]

So, we went to go visit my mother. We try to make the trip once a week and of course, we get fed. She puts out SO much food. It’s almost unbelievable. For example, this one particular time, she put out, from left to right: Oden with variety of fish cakes, konyaku (root noodles), bamboo [...]

Last week was a pretty busy week without much cooking. We just wrapped things up with our usual cold Udon noodles in a Southeast Asian garlic lime sauce, with a pinch of dashi. I just topped that with shiitake mushrooms and boiled vegetables (sansai) blanched in thick dashi, soy sauce and mirin. All in all, [...]

(I finally get to post all the backlog of food entries I’ve been meaning to talk about)

So, last weekend we went to Mitsuwa. I was being an airhead or a ravenous beast (pick only one) and forgot to take pictures, but the details were: Autumn Japanese Food Fair. We went and looked around various Japanese [...]

Yesterday I worked from home. I didn’t feel like toast or oatmeal. Seriously, I couldn’t taste most things and I wanted something flavorful!
I had a smidgen of green curry left, so I mixed it with my mother’s fluffy rice cooked with matsutake. (The rice itself as a little bit of bonito dashi, sake/mirin, and cut [...]