Showing posts with label tuna. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tuna. Show all posts

Monday, May 5, 2014

May 4th Lunch

May 4th,

I used the leftover negitoro to make a sort of negitoro don.

"Don" or donburi is a bowl dish where meat, veggie, or fish dishes are served on a bed of rice.

It's usually very filling.




Negitoro Don with Avocado

May 3rd Lunch

May 3rd,

They were having a sale of one of my favorite things, negitoro!

Negitoro is a tuna pate that is used in sushi.  It is usually topped with chopped scallions.

I used it to make today's lunch.


Negitoro Cups with Kabocha and Tofu Potage






I toasted gyoza skins to make cups and filled it with rice then topped it with negitoro (which I mixed with a little bit of soy sauce and wasabi paste), minced tomato and cucumber.  It was like a Japanese taco cups.  I love it!


Thursday, March 27, 2014

March 27th Lunch

March 27th,

I don't know if it's the bad weather, but I've had a horrible headache all day.

Very unpleasant.

Anyway, lunch:

The other day I bought tuna; the ara of the tuna.

Ara (or アラ) is the left over parts of the fish after all the main parts have been cut away and usually you cook it rather than eat it raw.  You can eat it raw if you are careful in the preparation and what part you use.

It can also have a more fishy smell/taste than other parts.  So I first boiled mine in a mixture of water and cooking sake before I cooked it nice and slowly in soy sauce and ginger.  Marinating or first boiling/steaming it in sake will help to get rid of the fishyness.

I also perfected the poached egg!  Finally!!





Beautiful, no?  I knew it would just take me practice.

I used it and the tuna to make today's lunch.




I call it my AraAra-don.

It was yummy~.




Poached eggs are golden gooey globs of yummy.


Monday, February 24, 2014

February 22nd Lunch

February 22nd,

When I can't think up a menu I turn to the tuna melt.

A tuna melt will never let you down.






Open Tuna Melt with Avocado and Tomato

Basil Oven Fries

Fish Sausage and Cucumber Salad





All the round open sandwiches were made with English Muffins.
Mmmm... tasty.

February 15th Lunch

February 15th,

It's so cold!!




Pumpkin Tofu Pottage with Ginger Chicken Meatballs






Open Tuna Melt


February 9th Lunch

February 9th,

LUUUNCH!








English Open Tuna Melt & Basil Oven Fries



Pumpkin Soup