Another fish day

We like grilled fish with salt (Shio yaki) because it gives you a original taste of the fish. Today we had buri kama (Yellow tail jaw) which had big bones but the meat around it is very tasty because they were moving along the bone when the fish was alive (that's what my mom told me.). Had it with grilled Shiitake mushroom and yellow peppers.

Thanksgiving

We went to my host family's for Thanksgiving dinner. We brought a Marbled pumpkin cheesecake
and Cauliflower, shrimp, red pepper and tomato sunomono (vinegar marinated). I took out the side of the spring form pan when the cake was still warm and soft and the cake collapsed!!! I baked some leafe shaped cookies and put them around the cake. See!!! You cannot tell it was collapsed, can you? :) We had a great time with the Gillespies.

Weekend lunch/dinner

We like cooking and these are the recent dishes we enjoyed.


Smoked salmon, sun dried tomato cream sauce + fettucine.
I added some smoked gouda cheese with carameraized onion.






Nibuta to hanjuku tamago(stewed pork and boiled egg), tomato and purple onion salda, Nozawana no Omisoshiru (Miso soup with Nozawa nappa)






Kuriokowa omusubi(redbeans and chestnut sweet rice), Teriyaki chicken and Shibazuke(pickled cucumber)







Saba no shioyaki (grilled mackle with salt) , sansai okowa (sweetrice mushroom) and ebi to kinoko no sunomono (vinegrated shrimp and mushroom)






Mushroom crusted halibut by Steven. Ground dry mushroom gave great aroma to this dish. Mmmmmm...Side dish is green beans and tomato with sesame & ginger oil dressing.






Pasta with shrimp, sundried tomato, olive tapenade and pine nut. The olive tapenade was the one we got in France. The saltness from the anchovy in the tapenade made this interesting dish.






Halibut chowder made by Steven. Fish, potato, onion, carrot and milk made good combination . Yuuuuum!!