I attended my first "Sake Night" at the Tengu restaurant in downtown San Jose last night. Tengu is a small restaurant (caters more to the college students during the day) that hosts a private boutique sake tasting once a month. They also pair it with some type of Japanese inspired food. I'm not a big sake fan because back in the day of my grandparents, it was a really harsh drink, hence why it had to be heated. The new generation of sake makers have gone back the original version of making sake, which makes it very smooth. We started with a citrus sake (photo) which tasted like Fresca. It was paired with edamame (soy beans) with light sesame seed pepper oil. The main course of sushi and abalone was pair with a more traditional sake that had a malty taste. Then we had a sake margarita which was super good. That was paired with 3 Japanese tacos. Yep tacos, pulled pork, teriyaki beef and chicken. To finish everything off, we had a peach sake, which was my favorite. Very fun night and interesting to try something a little different.
Flat Fish Paper Arts was born many years ago when blogging first started. My family did a lot of camping and diving along the California coast. California halibut are huge fish that start out as any normal fish. As they age, one eye will start to move to the other side and the halibut will become flat so it can lay on the bottom of the ocean with both eyes facing up.
I always like the idea that we all start out the same but life experiences slowly changes us. In my case, my creative talents went the way of paper arts. Flatfish are always looking up when they mature and as with any artist, we see inspiration in everything around us - always looking up.
Evan and her flatfish
Years ago a local dive shop had a photo of a diver who caught a halibut so big he had to throw it over his jeep to take the picture. Our little spoof with our daughter sitting in her toy jeep with dad's halibut on the hood. 1987
I attended my first "Sake Night" at the Tengu restaurant in downtown San Jose last night. Tengu is a small restaurant (caters more to the college students during the day) that hosts a private boutique sake tasting once a month. They also pair it with some type of Japanese inspired food. I'm not a big sake fan because back in the day of my grandparents, it was a really harsh drink, hence why it had to be heated. The new generation of sake makers have gone back the original version of making sake, which makes it very smooth. We started with a citrus sake (photo) which tasted like Fresca. It was paired with edamame (soy beans) with light sesame seed pepper oil. The main course of sushi and abalone was pair with a more traditional sake that had a malty taste. Then we had a sake margarita which was super good. That was paired with 3 Japanese tacos. Yep tacos, pulled pork, teriyaki beef and chicken. To finish everything off, we had a peach sake, which was my favorite. Very fun night and interesting to try something a little different.
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