Mackerel simmered in miso

I like mackerel. Usually I eat grilled mackerel with salt, but Mackerel simmered in miso is also good with beer.

Ingredients(2 servings)
mackerel fillet
ginger
2 tbsp sake (30ml)
150ml water
2tbsp miso
2 tbsp suger
1tbsp soy sauce

How to cook
1. put mackerel and water and ginger in a pan and boil.
2 put sake, soy sauce, sugar, miso and boil 8 minutes in the middle fire.
3 put a drop lid on it and simmer for 7 minutes.

easy and good taste.

Yakitori Party

Thare are a lot of snow in Boston.

So cold. In this case, Alcohol help me to keep out the cold.

I made yakitori, oyakodon, potato salad, and karaage in the friend's house.

Japanese sake is awesome!!

Setsubun

February 3rd is a day of Setsubun in Japan.

It refers to the day before beginning the next season.

And we believe that Oni(Japanese devil) comes when season changes in Japan.

That's why we need to prepare exorcising oni.

There are a lot of way, but main methods are

1) We eat roasted beans and throw out side.

2) We eat sushi roll.

February 3rd, I made a sushi roll.

And I made yakitori, and mackerel simmered in miso.

I love it.

Yakirtori

If I go back to Japan, I will eat yakitori everyday.

I could not find yakitori restaurant in the USA.

Yakitori are grilled chicken.

They are made bite sized pieces of meat from different parts of chicken.

There are many kinds of yakitori.

Negima consists of pieces of chicken, usually thigh meat skewered with pieces of leek in between.

Tsukune are meat balls made of minced chicken, egg and vegetables

Kawa or Torikawa are strios of fatty chicken skin , which have been grilled until crispy.

Hatu is a chicken heart.

Sunagimo is chicken gizzard. It has a crunchy texture.

Bonjiri is a chicken tail. It is a little fatty, but taste is so good.

Tebasaki is chicken wings with bone.

They have a lot of parts of chicken.

I love eat yakitori with Japanese beer!!