Sashimi with Soy Sauce, Sesame Seeds, and Chives

Celebrate top-quality, fresh fish with this dish.

Making a little sashimi (salmon and quick-seared scallops [in dark sesame oil]) for lunch today I happen to spy some smoked paprika and added some to the “wasabi” powder. It turned out pretty well. (The scallops better...

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Ceviche, tartare, and other no-cook foods.

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All soy sauces are not created equal.

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Obviously shoyu (isn’t there a word for shoyu used for sushi?) and “wasabi” are ubiquitous. There are others, such as ponzu or eel sauce. Sometimes a swipe of a citrus. Some toasted sesame seeds or green onion....

I’m trying to recreate a sashimi oyster dish my DH had in Narita many years ago. He remembers a small dish of pickled oysters – not cooked, but firm because they had been marinated in vinegar, he thinks. The only thing...

Matsuhisa used to do it, I don’t know if they still do. You could get it half sashimi and half cooked with the pepper sauce. It was amazing.

One of my favorite restaurants is Yakitori Totto on West 55th St, Manhattan. Until a few months ago, they had chicken sashimi on the menu, served several ways, and I loved it. They stopped serving it, they said, because it...

Hi Joan, The yakitori-ya right across the street from my apartment here serves chicken sashimi, and I’ve tried it on several occasions. It tastes like raw rattlesnake. Actually, dipped in a bit of soy sauce and wasabi, it is...

't necessarily very high. it was served in raw slice style with dipping sauce along with some wasabi. i can’t recall if there was any prep that would make it different from sashimi. i don’t remember it as being very...