Pompano with vinegar sauce

Tonight’s main dish, 鰺の酢漬け Aji no suduke

鰺 Aji = pompano, 酢 su = vinegar, 漬ける tsukeru = to soak

fried pompano

vinegar

Sake(Japanese rice wine)

Mirin(味醂）

salt

sliced onion

sliced carrots

sliced green pepper or paprika

 

You can eat whole the fishes including heads and bones. 

So, I had to fry more than 30 pompanos for this! It was hard time for me, but I felt that my effort was rewarded when my family told me that they really enjoyed the meal.

Chopped Pompano

Today, my brother fished 52 pompanos.

Then, we had to eat them for a dinner.

Tonight, we ate them as chopped pompano, we call it “鰺のタタキ（Aji no tataki) in Japanese. This is a kind of Sashimi.

chopped pompano 1

chopped pompano 2

Tomorrow, I’ll cook the rest of them with other recipe.

What a fun for me it would be!

Actually, I hate cooking….

Tai meshi

Tai = sea bream

Meshi =rice

My younger brother fished a sea bream today and he cooked it with rice, sake, soi source, mirin and seaweed.

It tasted good and we enjoyed the meal