Summer Asian-style dishes with Donabe

Donabe makes my summer cooking fun and delicious.


With microwavable donabe steam-roaster, "Tochinsai", I can prep even ingredients for salad very easily.  Sake-steamed chicken, kabocha, and green beans in Chinese-style sesame sauce.  The main ingredients were all cooked in Tochinsai in microwave, and they came out really nice.


Sake-nanpla marinated shrimp was steam-roasted in Tochinsai for yam um sen (Thai-style glass noodle salad).


Mini-size classic-style donabe, "Rikyu-Tokusa" was used as a serving vessel for bun (Vietnamese-style rice noodle salad).

So summer-style and nice.
Happy donabe life.

Roasted Duck...Our Christmas Tradition

My roasted duck came out beautifully again this year.

The duck was seasoned with the mixture of salt, black pepper, juniper berries, orange rind, Chinese five spice, etc., and rested in the fridge for 2 days.

Duck with Yuzu Butter Brussels Sprouts (cooked with my donabe), and Roasted Beets and Beets Greens.

Godme, Champagne, Brut Integral, Premier Cru

2000 Mas de Daumas Gassac

After the dinner, with the duck carcasses, I made the duck stock. I simmered them with ginger, garlic, scallion (green parts only), black peppercorn, sake and water for 12 hours. The aroma was so nice. I also saved the duck fat from roasting.