Sorry I haven't been posting many recipes lately. I haven't been doing much cooking while on vacation aside from making toast and mixing up Ovaltines.
There's a saying in Hawaii that goes "Lucky you live Hawaii." People who live here know that this is the best place on earth. If ever there was evidence that this is the best place on earth, it has to be the party we went to last night at my Auntie Amy's house.
Where else can you have a party where you hire your own sushi chef and your own tempura chef. They spent the evening preparing sushi and tempura to order. The sushi was the freshest of fresh and the tempura was hot and crispy.
My toddler (with the million dollar taste buds) loves fish eggs and ate her weight in ikura and tobiko. My four-year-old happily gobbled down musubi and shrimp tempura. It was the perfect party. See for yourself!
Sushi chef in my aunt's kitchen. You don't see fish like this anywhere else. Maybe in Japan.
Nigiri or maki, what would you like?
The tempura chef with his killer propane set up.
The pair working in tandem. In foreground: a plate of gyoza and tempura (deep-fried) california maki sushi.
At the end of the evening, the sushi chef made platters of nigiri with his leftover fish. The photo doesn't do it justice, but the ahi was deep red. No where but Hawaii do you see ahi like that. Everything we get on the mainland, no matter how good, is not the same caliber as what is available in Hawaii.
More sushi.
Everyone's favorite: shrimp tempura. I want some right now.
Oh. My. God. Stefania.
My wife (we're both at work) just e-mailed me saying, "Have you gone to Citymama's food blog?!"
:) Wow. I just read/looked at the pics in all your posts since you've been in Hawaii, and all I can say is...
I'm hungry.
:)
Happy New Year! (And congrats on the new laptop! Jealous!)
Posted by: daddy in a strange land | December 29, 2006 at 03:08 PM
Jealousy is not something I admit ot often, but man right now I am jealous, you may have just picked my next vacation destination - your aunts house!!! :) you seriously have to send me the info on hiring for htat down there - cause I'll do it. So seriously....
Posted by: Raquita | December 30, 2006 at 10:14 AM
Oooh those shrimp tempura looks good. I love tempura. Anyways, if you had to buy just one cookbook, which one would it be?
Posted by: Caroline | January 02, 2007 at 12:42 AM
I am deeply envious. Your own sushi chef and tempura cook? I need to add this to my list of things I have to do before I die. You're right about the ahi ... you just don't see that color up here. Did you bring home any food? I ALWAYS do. :)
Posted by: Mama22Boys | January 08, 2007 at 04:24 PM