The next time you’re looking for an impressive meal for a date night, or for entertaining people, or just because, try this unusual method of cooking.
My husband and I first encountered shabu-shabu style cooking in Stillwater at a local restaurant called Tokyo Pot. The restaurant serves you your choice of raw meat or fish and a plate of vegetables to be cooked fresh at your table in your own soup pot full of savory broth. Shabu-shabu is a Japanese variant of hot pot and the name shabu-shabu is derived from the “swish swish” motion used when cooking the meat in the pot. The dish consists of thinly sliced meat and vegetables which are usually served with dipping sauces. The meat is sliced so thin that it literally cooks in seconds. Soon we came to realize that we loved this style of cooking so much that the $60+ we spent of eating out could be spent on a lot more food at home.
