Weeknight dinner

2 recipes

Sauce yakisoba topped with green aonori on a white plate, browned steamed noodles mixed with thin pork belly, squares of cabbage, bean sprouts and tempura scraps, with steam rising
Japan

Yaki Soba: Japanese Sauce-Fried Noodles with Pork and Cabbage

Japanese sauce yakisoba made at home: fry steamed noodles alone first, add pork and cabbage, then finish with sauce for about 30 seconds until fragrant.

Three kinds of sashimi, block-cut salmon, red sea bream and yellowtail (buri), arranged with shredded daikon
Japan

Sashimi: A Three-Fish Platter, Cut Fish by Fish (Sashimi / 刺身)

How to make a home sashimi platter for three with salmon, a white fish and a richer fish, 100g each, on shredded daikon with wasabi, sushi ginger and soy sauce. Covers how to read raw-eating labels, keeping fish cold, why salmon and white fish are cut at different blade angles, what wasabi and soy sauce cannot do against parasites, and how sashimi differs from sushi.