A Homemade Japanese Dinner

I've been on a Japanese food kick the past few weeks. This dinner consisted of grilled squid, cold soba, inari sushi and pork stir fry.

Grilled Squid

Squid (I buy it whole and Brad cleans it)

Soy Sauce to taste

Salt

Pepper

Grill on a cast iron pan for about 3 minutes on medium high, turning occasionally.

Cold Soba

Buckwheat soba (buy from Asian food market)

Shredded nori

Soba Dipping Sauce

Wasabi (optional. I buy the powder version and mix it with water)

Ginger (optional)

Add uncooked soba to boiling water and boil for 4 minutes. Drain in colander and run cold water over noodles. Top with shredded nori. On the side in a bowl, put the soba dipping sauce. In another plate/bowl, put the optional wasabi and ginger. To eat, dip some of the noodles in the dipping sauce and eat. Do not pour dipping sauce over noodles. Just dip as you eat.

Soba dipping sauce

Wasabi made from powder

Inari sushi, bought from market

Pork Stir Fry

onion

thinly sliced pork

chinese or napa cabbage

soy sauce

salt and pepper

honey or sugar (optional)