Alittle bit of Japanese and alittle bit of Chinese

We were having people over for a Boxing Match at the last minute...Might have been a Pacquiao Fight.
I had a desire to serve to my friends Sushi.  And in order for me to fill people up, I made Asian Glazed Ribs to go along with the Food.

 

There is an art to making Sushi Rolls and slicing Fish that I am trying to still Master.  I would like to say I did a pretty decent job in making it. 

I had have been having my Birthday dinners at Kita Sushi in The Woodlands for the past several years and this past year, my friend Julie had ordered the Hot Cheeto Roll.  I tried to recreate it with my own filling inside the roll and rolled it in Finely Crushed Hot Cheetos.  To our surprise, it was delicious. 

The Ribs were Seasoned with Chinese Five Spice Rub and slowly roasted and basted with a Hoison Glaze. 

Menu:

Chinese SpareRibs

Nigiri Maguro (Tuna) and Sake (Salmon)

Variety of Rolls

Wine & Cheese Party

If you guys have never heard of or been to Phoenicia then you guys need to check it out.  It is a Mediterranean & Specialty Food Store and I always have the time of my life there...especially down at the Deli Aisle where they have a huge variety of Cheeses. 

I may have gone bit overboard one day and just loaded my shopping cart with all sorts of Cheeses and Dried Cured Meat.  It had been a little bit over a month and none of the Cheese had gotten touch and I had several Wine bottles.

"Tons of Cheese + Tons of Wine= WINE PART!"
 

Now I do not remember the Variety of Cheeses I had but there was plenty to go around because I had a Wine & Cheese Football Party 2 days following and had plenty.

 

 

 

It was a great turn out, but two Wine & Cheese Party later, The Wine was gone but still had plenty of Cheese and Salami. 

I do not let Food go to waste so I try to Create new Recipes with Leftovers.

Dinner the following week was Eggplant Parmesan.

 

 

I had several day old stale French Bread and turned those into Breadcrumbs.  One thing that I have grown away from is Red Sauce Pasta Sauce in a Jar every since I started making my own.  I threw together a quick Red Sauce for this Dish.  

Seafood Extravaganza

Last Fall my buddy Michael took off to Boot camp and had mentioned he never cooked a Live Lobster or anything.  I thought it would be fun to go pick up a few Lobsters and have him and his wife and kids over. 

On a Saturday Morning, we jumped in the car and drove down to Hong Kong Market because they tend to have the best deals on Lobsters. 

So we may have gotten carried away while we were there.  They had a huge tub of Blue Crab and people were just picking away.  We started off just filling 1 Paper bag up and that turned into 2 and that grew into 3 Sacks full of Blue Crab!  We had not even gotten to the Lobster.  We eventually got about 6 Lobsters (I think) and picked up some Dungeness Crab at the same time. 

This was only part of it.  You can see more bags on the floor in the 3rd Picture.

 

 

After that much Shellfish, we thought we would just pass up the Shrimp.  To our surprise, my Brothers showed up with about 10 Pounds of Shrimp that my Parents had sent with them.

We had enough for a Lunch Seafood Extravaganza and then for Dinner!  Between 6 of us, we killed every last bit of it!