Shiokara Report: Enjoying Homemade Squid Shiokara

January 5, 2009 7 Comments

Shiokara Report: Enjoying Homemade Chinmi Squid Shiokara いかの塩辛

Shiokara is a favorite of Miwa and she made some recently and it is ready for eating. Shiokawa is made of salted squid semi-fermented in its own guts and is a kind of chinmi, literally ‘rare taste’. Japanese like shiokara on rice or with sake.…

Kichisen Kaiseki: Japanese New Year Shogatsu Ryori

January 1, 2009 5 Comments

This entry is part 7 of 8 in the series O-shogatsu Ryori

Kichisen Kaiseki: Japanese New Year O-Shogatsu Kaiseki Ryori 京都吉泉お正月懐石料理

A lobster, mochi, kelp, daidai- orange and persimmon offering to god, crab served amid fresh snow covered bamboo grass, red snapper sashimi served in a basket of green bamboo, pine bough and plum blossom; it’s Oshogatsu Ryori…

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