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What did you eat last night for dinner?

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lamb chops with pomegranite basalmic vinegar reduction and steamed broccoli.
 

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Portuguese chorizo sausages and beluga lentils cooked with onion and garlic. It was excellent.
 

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A bunch of pics from the last few weeks. Clams:
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Christmas-y dinner:
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Kaiten sushi in Sapporo:
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Salmon Roe sushi:
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Cod unmentionables sushi:
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Crab sushi:
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Ramen:
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Ramen:
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***** tuna sashimi (that's was some freakin ***** toro!):
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Salmon roe:
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Various sashimi:
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Pork belly braised with kombu:
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Originally Posted by Alter
A bunch of pics from the last few weeks.
As always, you manage to eat amazing grub every day. But, I do want to ask: do you ever get tired of eating the same type of food all the time? How about a little fried chicken, cheesesteak, or curry thrown in the mix?
 

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Originally Posted by DarkNWorn
As always, you manage to eat amazing grub every day. But, I do want to ask: do you ever get tired of eating the same type of food all the time? How about a little fried chicken, cheesesteak, or curry thrown in the mix?
Yea, I eat a wide variety of stuff, had curry for dinner last night actually, but don't usually have a camera around. The pics above are from special events like xmas, new year and a few days on holiday in Hokkaido...not my usual everyday fare. I think I usually end up posting from those sort of events as I don't snap pics of more regular meals. But now that you mention it...haven't had a good cheesesteak in ages. BTW...been meaning to send you thanks about the hand grip recommendation. Good call...I love it!
 

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Alter, I'd be interested in a Ramen soup recipe, should you be willing to share. Something not too spicy, it would be for my son, who adores all types of noodle soups.
 

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I made some osso bucco that was cut from 70 pound calves. I used the traditional Milanese recipe, but instead of straining the sauce and reducing it, which then often creates a sauce that is too rich for the level of thickness desired, I pureed the sauce without straining. This lead to a sauce that was perfect in it's richness and overall body.

I served it with saffron risotto and a simple green salad.

We also experimented with a lot of different wines, just to see how they worked with the meal:
Barbaresco
Tinto de Toro
Chateauneuf du Pape
Burgandy

I personally thought the Chateauneuf du Pape was delicious with the dish.
 

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Originally Posted by Alter
***** tuna sashimi (that's was some freakin ***** toro!):
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Alter,

that is some tuna. mmmmm. the ramen looks great, too.
 

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Originally Posted by Fabienne
Alter, I'd be interested in a Ramen soup recipe, should you be willing to share. Something not too spicy, it would be for my son, who adores all types of noodle soups.

From scratch?

Ramen is one of those foods that is so good (and cheap) in restaurants that we usually eat that when we are out. It is like Japanese fast food...shops are everywhere.

Actually, it is rare for anyone to make the soup stock, roast pork or noodles at home. If we eat it at home we just use a packaged version and sometimes add a 7-minute boiled egg, some thinly sliced green onions or other vegetables and throw it all together.
 

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God I love ramen.
When we make it at home, which we have to do b/c the closest decent ramen is all the way in San Francisco, we just make a basic tonkotsu ramen stock. It's basically pork stock enriched with onion, ginger, leek, garlic, and konbu. After that, it's just the noodles, some pork, some green onions, some corn, and a hard boiled egg. If we had the patience to make pickled ginger at home, it'd be good on tonkotsu. Ours isn't really a true tonkotsu though, since we have a pretty rich, dark stock, compared to the more clear traditional kind.
It looks like Alter's ramen was a shoyu ramen. Yeah?
 

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Originally Posted by Alter
From scratch?

Ramen is one of those foods that is so good (and cheap) in restaurants that we usually eat that when we are out. It is like Japanese fast food...shops are everywhere.

Actually, it is rare for anyone to make the soup stock, roast pork or noodles at home. If we eat it at home we just use a packaged version and sometimes add a 7-minute boiled egg, some thinly sliced green onions or other vegetables and throw it all together.


I've found a place that has pretty good chinese packaged ramen, and I like to beef it up with roast pork, chile, chopped up veggies etc. but I really like to get good ramen at a resteraunt.
 

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Originally Posted by kwilkinson
It looks like Alter's ramen was a shoyu ramen. Yeah?
Yup! The top one is shoyu and the lower one is Sapporo style, which uses a miso base. My favorite is Kyushu style, which uses a rich milky tonkotsu stock. Mmmmmmmm. Got a great place to take you for that when you come, Kwilk.
 

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We had chicken pot pies, made from scratch by my wife. Delicious puff pastry on top, yummy!

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