December 19, 2008

More Enoki, and Bigger!/さらにエノキ、それに、もっと大きいのを!

I got more enoki mushrooms yesterday. As you can see from the photo below, the mushrooms were bigger than the ones I had gotten previously. I know that many of you are already sick and tired of looking at them, but the problem is that I can never get tired of having them.
昨日、エノキをまたもらいました。写真から分かるように、以前もらったのより大きいです。もうエノキを見るのに飽きた人も多いでしょうが、私自身はエノキを食べるのは飽きません!

I wrapped some of them in aluminum foil, sprinkled some sake, closed the foil, and cooked them in the toaster oven for 8 minutes.
エノキを少しアルミホイルに包み、日本酒を少しかけ、ホイルを閉じて、オーブントースターで8分加熱しました。

Then I sprinkled some soy sauce and some lemon juice (poor subsitute for sudachi juice).
そして、醤油とレモン汁(スダチの汁の代わり)にかけました。
I also stir-fried some enoki together with sausage and ging-geng-cai.
また、エノキをソーセージと青梗菜と一緒に炒めました。

I also made miso soup with tofu and enoki.
豆腐とエノキの味噌汁も作りました。

Today, I received this "oseibo" (year-end gift) from the construction company that built my house three years ago.
今日は、3年前に我が家を建てた建設会社から、このお歳暮をもらいました。

These pears are called "le Lectier."
この洋梨は「ルレクチェ」(またはルレクチエ)と呼ばれています。

4 comments:

Yvette said...

Please continue to post the enoki! They are so beautiful! I never thought about cooking the enoki with sake in the toaster - that sounds like it would really concentrate the flavor of the mushrooms. What is your favorite way of eating/preparing them, if you have one?

Hiroyuki said...

Yvette: You are right. Wrapping in foil and cooking in a toaster oven is probably the best way to savor the flavor of any type of mushroom.
Because of their slenderness, regular-size enoki mushrooms can only play a secondary role in any dish. I usually put them in miso soup, stir-fries, and salad (after boiling). But these overgrown mushrooms! They can be a primary ingredient in any dish! I would never have thought of using enoki in takikomi gohan (rice cooked with other ingredients) without these overgrown ones!

Amy said...

Hi Hiroyuki! I love enoki too, and your posts on enoki takikomi gohan make me want to try making it! My favorite way of ordering enoki at izakaya is butter-yaki - cooked in foil with butter, soy sauce, and sake - and I like to make that with shiitake and enoki. Have you thought of cooking your enoki like that as well?

Hiroyuki said...

Amy (Amy? Do I know you?): Yes, I have. Actually, I thought about trying the butter and soy sauce combination before I made that foil-yaki, but I thought the flavor of butter would be overpowering to the subtle flavor of enoki, so I used my preferred way: Sake only.