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As I promised in my latest Facebook post, I was going to make poke at home. Poke (pronounced as po-kay)is a raw fish salad in Hawaiian cuisine. I remember having this \u00a010plus years ago in Honolulu. I was not a big fan of raw fish then. I was also 20 pounds lighter and can don a swimsuit without fear, so safe to say, a lot of things \u00a0have changed since then. I love sashimi, so the thought of mixing it with great fruits and veggies plus a savory sauce makes it very enticing.<\/p>\n

We went to North Shore Poke Company<\/a>. This is a restaurant which started at Huntington Beach and they now have branches in Cerritos, Costa Mesa, and most recently, H-town!<\/p>\n

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An order of poke would first have a base of rice or veggies. You will then pick a choice of raw fish \u00a0(salmon or ahi tuna) or octopus. Extras would comprise of mango, avocado, masago, crab, crispy garlic, ginger ,sweet onion. This would all be topped by a savory sauce. There’s a variety of sauces to choose from, depending on the restaurant.<\/p>\n

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My bowl – brown rice, salmon,mango, masago, blue crab, sweet onion and Ponzu sauce<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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D’s bowl- brown rice, ahi tuna, pickled ginger, masago, Wasabi Shoyu Sauce<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I knew I had to have more of this so I vowed to make some at home for dinner. And also for Beans who was still asleep when we left. We stopped by at Nippon Daido grocery to pick up some sashimi grade salmon and pink snapper. This is my version:<\/p>\n

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Base is wild rice and some lettuce. Fish is a mix of salmon and pink snapper. I added mangoes and avocado. For the sauce i mixed ponzu and sesame oil. Ah-mazing!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This has really been a wonderful day, food-wise and weather-wise. We ate this outdoors where we recently just cut the grass. I love the smell of freshly-cut grass. It smells so clean. For dessert, we had the cream puff pastry I picked up from the Japanese grocery store. Since the North Shore didn’t serve alcohol, we thought we’d just drink at home. It’s a weekend and it’s past 5 and the weather is awesome, it would be a crime not to…<\/p>\n

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As I promised in my latest Facebook post, I was going to make poke at home. Poke (pronounced as po-kay)is a raw fish salad in Hawaiian cuisine. I remember having this \u00a010plus years ago in Honolulu. I was not a big fan of raw fish then. I was also 20 pounds lighter and can don … Continue reading Healthy Eats<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-h-town-houston","category-i-me-and-myself","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71dzN-ml","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1836,"url":"https:\/\/www.venividiedi.net\/?p=1836","url_meta":{"origin":1385,"position":0},"title":"Oxbow 7","author":"certifiedfoodie","date":"October 16, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I have noticed that the last couple of restaurants I've reviewed, the newly-opened ones, don't have menus online. 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