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grilled Chinese eggplant in teriyaki sauce

August 5, 2011

I can’t think of a vegetable that is as versatile for so many different cuisines as eggplant. We’ve made it in so many delicious ways: Kashmiri, Szechuan, North African, Macedonian, Italian, Lebanese; and that’s just scratching the surface. This dish is inspired by Japan. I made the teriyaki sauce myself since I wanted better control [...]

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grilled tofu cutlets with warm carrot dressing

July 29, 2011

This is an awesome dish to serve to your non-meat eater friends and their admirers. It requires some planning ahead as you need to marinate the tofu cutlets overnight or at least for few hours so they soak up all the flavors. Other than that it’s a breeze to make and looks and tastes gorgeous. [...]

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Szechuan string beans with tofu in black bean sauce

July 5, 2011

This recipe is a take on Szechuan style long beans, which I adore. The dish has all those amazing Asian flavors going on: ginger, garlic, pepper sauce, soy sauce and the magical, fermented black bean sauce. Fermented black bean sauce is a Chinese culinary wonder made with soybeans that have been fermented, and, in the [...]

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pink wheat berry salad with kale and beets in tahini dressing

May 2, 2011

I found a small bag of wheat berries buried in my pantry during the ongoing kitchen remodel. (Ugh! When will there be running water!!!) It was forgotten there for a couple of months, maybe. I had seen a wheat berry salad at the Whole Foods and Bi-rite in the Mission. My original idea was to [...]

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savory daikon rice cakes

January 25, 2011

Steven and I are big fans of the always-trendy and iconic restaurant, The Slanted Door, located in the San Francisco Ferry Building. Their food is consistently good, and what’s even more challenging to maintain, consistently exciting. We’ve been going there for years now and we’re never disappointed. Steven especially likes their daikon rice cakes. The [...]

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yummy wakame salad

December 31, 2010

I completely agree with the post on girlie girl army about sea veggies. She claims that sea vegetables are overlooked in terms of taste and nutritional value, at our loss. Here’s what she writes: Sea vegetables contain high levels of calcium, iron, potassium, magnesium, iodine, chlorophyll, enzymes and fiber and offer more vitamins and minerals [...]

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gobo salad AKA burdock root salad

November 17, 2010

Last weekend we went shopping at the San Francisco Japanese Center for some hard to find Japanese food products. I was specifically looking for fresh ramen noodles. I wanted to try to reproduce at home the delicious ramen noodle soup I had at the Tuesdays-and-Thursdays-only food stall located in front of the Ferry Plaza. Stay [...]

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Japanese inspired “sea vegetable” salad

May 21, 2010

I prepared this Japanese inspired salad with home-cured gravlax and white rice. The gravlax had dill and was Swedish inspired. The “sea vegetable” salad was Japanese inspired. Despite being from two far distant culinary traditions, they seemed to match well together. Perhaps because they’re both “ocean foods?” This salad is easy to make and would [...]

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soba noodles with pan grilled tuna and nori kizami

March 11, 2010

I love soba noodles. Last Saturday while looking at the stuff that I had stashed away in the pantry, I noticed a big package of soba that I bought a while ago at the Sunset Super and promptly forgot about. Earlier that same rainy day, we had been to Sun Fat fish market, but, oddly, [...]

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tofu with sugar snap peas

February 17, 2010

I’ve been struggling with jet lag upon returning from Brazil this week. It’s a six hour time difference right now. That’s a killer in the evenings when it’s time to prepare dinner. We got back on a Sunday and went shopping at Trader Joe’s. I was half-delirious so got a bit of everything. On Monday, [...]

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