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posted by
benzinha
on September 6, 2005 at 10:57 PM
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Okay.
Didn't count on on a "Foods" section post in your comments, did ya!?
posted by
majroj
on September 4, 2005 at 8:17 PM
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maj, next time I have some grocery money, I shall buy the ingredients
and make it. I love marinades and this one, yumming here over the ingredients listed, sounds especially fine. I like the pineapple sub idea, too. Okay. Will do.
posted by
benzinha
on September 1, 2005 at 12:18 AM
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Don't knock teryaki sauce until you've made your own.
Shoyu (I like Kikkoman). NOT "light" or "low sodium" variations.
Brown sugar and maybe some honey. NOT artificial sweetener.
Vinegar. (Purists use rice vingar; I like a good wine vinegar)
Powdered ginger
A bit of sake'(rice wine, not the sushi), or maybe a little wine you like but not too strongly flavored).
Take a salad dressing cruet like you get with Good Season's salad dressing mixes. Add shoyu to about 1/2 the way up. Add about half that volume in vinegar. Add sugar or honey to taste, then a small dash of ginger. (You can experiment with adding other seasonings, like curry, garlic, black pepper, oregano, etc. but keep iy simple at first. You are essentially making a sweeet and sour glaze with shoyu sauce). If adding alcohol, add it now, maybe a tablespoon or so. (You might add a little cornstarch, approx. 1/2 to 1 tsp, now, to make a "thicker" product when you cook it).
You can let it set like that and store in the refrig after vigorous mixing, or you can shake vigorously, then microwave or stir/simmer, until the aroma is pleasing but the sauce has not thickened much, then re-bottle.
The more alcohol and vinegar you add, the better it will be for marinating; in any event, the sauce should be used beforehand, or added after rapid cooking at high heat then drop the temp, add the sauce, and turn the food in it or baste with the cooking sauce as it thickens into a glaze. Purists again will scorch it a little, very easy to accidentally do over a BBQ.
Try cooking with chicken, pork, beef, salmon, tuna or shark steak, carrots, diced radish, turkey roast, firm tofu; or, as a dip for tempura, cold finger vegetables (carrots/celery/green onion/thick jicama, tart apple sections, tangerine or tart orange sections).
Hundreds of variations. Unsweetened pineapple juice replacing vinegar and sweetener to some degree is my favorite.
posted by
majroj
on August 31, 2005 at 5:48 PM
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Yuck, maj. They cook only Brasilian food, but wonderfully well.
posted by
benzinha
on August 31, 2005 at 12:54 AM
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Oi, Japanese and Irish Brazilians...what WILL they cook??
Teriyaki plantains and mutton. Or some such.
posted by
majroj
on August 30, 2005 at 5:22 PM
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maj, they have two drop dead gorgeous boys, who have moved to Brasil!!!
posted by
benzinha
on August 29, 2005 at 11:05 PM
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Remember that their "Japan-ness" is something of a fossil or relict.
When a group leaves a country and goes to another, their version of the mother tongue and mres tend to be "pinched off" the tree of progress in their own land and held as a bubble of the past.
Sort of like the relict Scottish and Irish and Germanic terms spoken by the Pennsylvania Deutsch, Appalacian back-countrymen, and others.
That whole episode of nineteenth to twentieth- century Japanese disapora I find interesting, including the ill-fated Wakamatsu Tea Colony about sixty miles from here at Gold Hill.
She and her husband must have beautiful kids!
posted by
majroj
on August 29, 2005 at 10:25 PM
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maj, I think I said before that my Brasilian friend, Amelia, here in town
is Japanese Brasilian and she married an Irish American, poor baby!!! She is still so very properly Japanese, third generation, too.
posted by
benzinha
on August 29, 2005 at 8:12 PM
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Thought so.
One of my friends' cousin in laws is a Japon from Brazil, still all-Nihon, but third generation in Brazil.
posted by
majroj
on August 29, 2005 at 7:01 PM
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I remember the car, maj. But not the ad as I was in Brasil at the time, heh
posted by
benzinha
on August 29, 2005 at 1:00 AM
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heh heh let em guess
The babararacucudada reference was a classic little car ad from the sixties. The announcer can't say "bacaruda"...or was it "Bar-AH-cuda"? So, anyway, the producer comes on with this tinny intercom voice and helps him:
"Ba"
("Ba")
"Ra"
("Ra")
"Cu"
("Cu")
"DA! Now say it!"
"BABARARACUCUDADA!"
(cut to jingle).
posted by
majroj
on August 28, 2005 at 11:16 PM
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oops, maj, I saw that I had hit the save comment button twice maybe.
I deleted the extra comment, which will thoroughly confuse people in the future who no longer know of the redundant comment.
posted by
benzinha
on August 27, 2005 at 1:24 AM
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Dseacrest, we have had parrots and macaws for almost 40 years and Fluffy's
death tore at my baby sister's heart, there at the daycare. We, in my family, do bigger and more elaborate funerals for parrots than for friends, I think.
posted by
benzinha
on August 27, 2005 at 1:22 AM
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no maj, finally a reference that I don't know, know.....
posted by
benzinha
on August 27, 2005 at 1:20 AM
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My heart is with you. I don't know what I would do if I lost one of my birds.
posted by
Dseacrest
on August 25, 2005 at 7:44 PM
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Are are you you mocking mocking me me?
Remember "Babararacucudada"?
posted by
majroj
on August 24, 2005 at 9:18 PM
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true, maj, I feel so bad for the little sisters. Their mom is retarded and
no one found out how the girls were doing until this year. The oldest is seven. That is too bad, as they might have done much better with help from the get-go. And poor Fluffy.
posted by
benzinha
on August 23, 2005 at 8:35 PM
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Not every broken vase can be mended, nor can all lives.
Not every "challenged" person is good, either; they fall prey to the same basic "karmic" ills we all have.
A friend adopted a "crack baby" almost at birth. This little boy had to be removed from three daycares and an institutional setting due to violence against others starting at age two; she hung on, through a marriage which foundered on her husband's drug abuse and despite raising three wonderful kids of her own in this milieu, for two years and had to give him up, crying, to the adoption agency for re-placement; she never found out where he wound up. The last straw was this four year old trying to start a fire in the kitchen with matches and a pile of newspapers. Couldn't get the safety matches to work.
posted by
majroj
on August 23, 2005 at 6:23 PM
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Not every broken vase can be mended, nor can all lives.
Not every "challenged" person is good, either; they fall prey to the same basic "karmic" ills we all have.
A friend adopted a "crack baby" almost at birth. This little boy had to be removed from three daycares and an institutional setting due to violence against others starting at age two; she hung on, through a marriage which foundered on her husband's drug abuse and despite raising three wonderful kids of her own in this milieu, for two years and had to give him up, crying, to the adoption agency for re-placement; she never found out where he wound up. The last straw was this four year old trying to start a fire in the kitchen with matches and a pile of newspapers. Couldn't get the safety matches to work.
posted by
majroj
on August 23, 2005 at 6:23 PM
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