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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. [...]
Excellent Dumpling House 111 Lafayette St New York, NY 10013-4105
This place, other than the name, is unassuming, quick, and solid. You know, and excellent. Because they say so. I like that. But seriously, we love to go there for the fried pork dumplings. When they came, we just had one thought [...]
Ryan tried his hand at miso cod this week. It was delicious. He pickled two filets of cod in our fridge (in a miso and mirin sauce) for over 24 hours. Then, he cooked the cod until it was tender and almost falling apart on the tongs in the pan with the [...]
Ryan made this tomato and chorizo sauce last night, when I was having a late work day. It was delicious with two different types of chorizo simmered in. Of course there is some garlic, onion, and basil. I would think that it would have been good with some additional anchovies. Mmm.
He poured [...]
Sometimes when we’re lazy, we just cook some rice, and heat up some Trader Joe black beans. This is our lazy dinner.
Seriously, it’s sort of like a burrito bowl. The beans themselves, we cook them with garlic, a pinch of green curry, and some spices to taste. I like to add some [...]
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Umi 
"There is very little that I cannot / wouldn't eat. However, Ryan was able to get a good laugh out of a panicked look I had on my face while drowning back raw baby squid with beer."
Ryan 
Ryan needs to write a blurb here about himself. Like the time he almost lost his shit over the greatness that is Japanese Bento and set lunches. Needless to say, we both like to eat very much.
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