Sauce: 3 Tbsp. miso 2 Tbsp. sake 2 Tbsp. mirin 1 Tbsp. sugar 1 cup water
1 lb. chicken pieces 1 Tbsp. oil 4 eggs, hardcooked and peeled 2 or 3 handfuls of bok choy, spinach or other greens
In a medium bowl, combine all sauce ingredients. In a skillet, brown chicken pieces in oil. Add sauce and eggs and simmer for 30 minutes. Add greens and continue to simmer until greens are done.
In Vancouver, we are truly blessed with Japanese tapa and Izakaya style restaurants. If you want quiet, intimate and fusion, go to Umami. If you want down home, cheap, cheerful, noisy and full of Japanese, go to Guu on Thurlow, our first Izakaya love. If you want upscale Guu, go to Hapa Izakaya.
Barb and I had an excellent meal at Shiru-Bay (1193 Hamilton Street, 604 408-9315) tonight. The beef carpaccio in the photo above (with truffle oil) for $10.80 was our favourite, but we loved most everything. More tomorrow!
Ah harvest time! Just thought I'd mention that heavenly equation. Still time to get some of Milan's tomatoes (say at one of the last remaining farmers markets) and the bacon at Oyama (flavourful and not overly fatty!) is always available as are Terra Breads' fabulous loaves!
If you want to know more about blogs like VanEats, RSS and why they matter and how they can help in a non technical high level style, I'd love to see you at our first Vancouver Web 2.0 forum event (it's FREE!) where I will be speaking on Remixing RSS. It's Thursday September 22, 2005 at ActiveState on Granville. Doors open from 6:30p.m. to 7pm. and the event is on until 8p.m. Love to see you there! For more info check out the event listing over on the Van 2 website.
Barb (her favourite was the salmon from Wild Rice pictured above) and I briefly attended Taste of the City 2005 today with the kid at about 3p.m. today.