He other day I ate a tuna head in Misakiguchi. It was a restaurant specialized in cooking only tuna heads. It was delicious. But we were six people and we couldn’t finish even one head!
After dinner, this is what we left over.
And he is the chef. It seems he is one of the best tuna chefs in Japan, he explained us that lately he is using lots of tuna coming from Spain.
“Shiitake” is an edible mushroom very common in Asia. It is one of those things I always buy when I go to the supermarket, it’s yummy and you can put it together with almost whatever: pasta with shiitake, soup with shiitake, asparagus with shiitake, whatever with shiitake :). Shiitake has tons of vitamin D, and you can always find it in any supermarket all over the year since it is a species that can be cultivated pretty easily.
The other day I saw for the first time how “shiitake” are cultivated:
That’s cheese flavored with tuna. Do you want to try?