Seaweed Salad and Ginger Squid/Oldboy

Hello Kim’s adoring public!  This will be a break from her irregularly scheduled brilliance for a guest post by me, the mysterious and silent ‘boyfriend.’

Pictured: My hand and a molleja taco.  Not Pictured: the food I'm cooking in this post.

These two dishes fit with Oldboy because they’re from Japan and Oldboy is from…  South Korea.  Close enough.  Had I watched the movie first, I probably would have gone with dumplings, but that’s water under the bridge.  I’m new at Japanese food, so I made a few key mistakes (like cooking squid in a poorly ventilated apartment... it still smells like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in here).  It was tasty, though, so I’ll definitely be trying again.

Special Guests and Tuna Steaks/Jaws

Japanese food galore! I guess I'm on a kick.

I got really excited when some friends contacted me to be guest contributors to the blog. I was happy about being able to hang with some cool kids for the night, but I was also really stoked that people took an interest! If anybody else in MA wants to be included in pretty much the hottest blog around, let me know. Recommendations of movie/food pairings are also taken into consideration.

Special guest Mario!

Special guest Maggie!

Also, a lot of the food from this entry was reused from the last one. The tuna recipe was inspired by this. The tuna was purchased from a fishmonger in Inman Square and HOLYCOW it was good. Jiro would be proud.

Recipe: Tuna Steaks with Leftover Rice and more Spicy Miso Soup

Sushi Bowls & Miso Soup/Jiro Dreams of Sushi

All I did in Vegas was EAT. I guess we did some other stuff too, but it seems like everything was centered around food. Not that I'm complaining - everything we had was super. Arriving home, I decided to go with something a little lighter to maybe offset some of the heavy eating. No CSA this week, so no crazy vegetables. There were some good veggies in these sushi bowls though!

The local grocery store didn't have all of the ingredients for Miso soup, and I didn't feel like making an extra trip, so I decided that the Minute Miso paste sounded just as good. After throwing some of my own touches to the paste, it actually turned out to be pretty delicious. Plus, now I have a way to have Miso soup whenever I want. That's pretty great if you ask me.