Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Wednesday In Japan... Yakiniku

Tuesday was Daughters Birthday.
For her Day she wanted a Pool Party with a Yakiniku Dinner.
And that is what we did.
Yakitori is the term used for Japanese grilling.
Here is "Cooking with Dog" 4 minute video showing what we did.
Cooking a meal with Daughter is great fun.
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 Had to pick up a few items.
rice, seaweed, Unagi sauce, Hoisin sauce, Sake, Tonkatsu sauce, pickled veggies
pickled plums, rice vinegar sushi vinegar, Samjang (spicy bean paste)
We didn't use everything here but I love it all.
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 What my plate look like.
If you watched the video you will see what we made plus the recipes.
From the top....
Japanese Potato salad (so good) 
Hand roll made with seaweed,  rice,  spicy intimation crab,  carrots and cucumber.
Grilled shitake mushroom, jalapeno pepper (it is hard to find Sishito peppers) spring onion,  baby bell peppers, Seitan (wheat gluten) marinated sliced and wrapped around a spring onion,  lemon to squeeze over the salt chicken and the marinated chicken. 
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Yes please !

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Here is your pretty for mid-week.

Today Waldie came back from doctors with his stiches removed and a OK to walk on his own without the sling ! He has been on crate rest. 
He walked outside and enjoyed a "rest in the sun" and out of the crate.
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 Only two weeks after sugery he is walking on all four legs.
He still has to rest as much as he can but he can be out of his crate superivesed.

Yea Waldie... gud job !
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Here is his sister Truffles, resting on "her" poof.
Yea yea yea... he is walking big deal but this is my poof and I am Queen of the poof !
Yert !

Happy. . . parsnip
music. . . Walk Like An Egyptian,  The Bangles

13 comments:

  1. We have a couple of yakitori places in Chicago: so tasty!

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    1. Goodness you are so lucky !
      Plus a Mitsuwa Market

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  2. Oh I love yakitori! Your dish looks so yummy! I agree, shishito is very hard to find, but I think jalapeño tastes quite good as part of yakitori, too :-)
    Waldie and Truffles are adorable. I wish quick full recovery for Waldie.

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    1. I bought some shishito seeds from a specially nursery so with luck I might be able to grow some.

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  3. Good for Waldie! And the food sounds great.

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    1. Yes they are very relived. This is his third operation on his back in three years.
      When they adopted him they knew he was beaten but.....

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  4. Japanese potato salad sounds intriguing...

    Good for Waldie!

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    1. I have put up my recipe once very easy maybe next Wednesday.

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  5. Who wouldn't love that birthday treat? Sweet doggie cousins.

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  6. Happy birthday to your daughter!

    The doggies are adorable!

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  7. Happy birthday to your daughter and glad Waldie is doing OK.

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  8. Yea Waldie's walking like an Egyptian? And now YOU have Chikin' strips? LOL

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  9. hee hee... Mme la Vache keeps a bottle of that Bull Dog sauce in the refrigerator.

    And THIS is for the Waldmeister...

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