All-you-can-eat sushi and BBQ for $9.95

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All the sushi, barbecued meat and salad you can eat are only $9.95 for lunch at Green Grill Rodizio, a Korean-owned Brazilian barbecue restaurant in Hackensack.

Lunch is served from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday to Friday, an employee said Tuesday. The price includes sushi, hot food, salad bar and barbecue, he said, but he was unable to give the total number of items.

The dinner price is $20.95. Green Grill is the largest restaurant in Hackensack.

Green Grill Rodizio, 450 Hackensack Ave., Hackensack, in the Home Depot Shopping Center; 201-488-2885.

Great noodle dish

The noodle dish I had for lunch Tuesday at Lotus Cafe in Hackensack was $9.95, but I wouldn't trade it for all the sushi I could eat at Green Grill, which is opposite the Chinese restaurant.

Noodles in Abalone Sauce is made with soft, house-made egg noodles sauteed with spinach, black mushrooms and leeks -- simple but delicious. The portion is enough for two.

 

$4.99 clementines

We found 5 pounds of clementines for $4.99 at ShopRite in Rochelle Park with a store card, but these are from Morocco. They are bigger than the Spanish ones I bought for $5.99 at Costco in Hackensack, easy to peel and, so far, all but one of them has been sweet.

Smoked wild salmon

Now, Costco is offering its Kirkland-brand of smoked, wild-caught Alaskan sockeye salmon in two 8-ounce packages for the same price as the pound package -- $14.99. This smoked salmon has no preservatives, and it's available year-round.

Quick-cooking wild salmon from Costco

The cooking time I gave in yesterday's post for Alaskan wild sockeye salmon from Costco -- 15 minutes -- is for steaming the fish when it is still frozen. Last night, I defrosted three skin-on fillets first and they cooked in barely six minutes in a Pyrex glass dish set atop a pot of boiling water.

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The fillets came out moist with medium interiors. I seasoned them with salt and black pepper and a little cheap sake, soy sauce, sweet cooking wine, rice vinegar and Thai fish sauce, and covered the dish. I waited for the water to boil before placing the dish on the pot. I plated the cooked fish and spooned a tablespoon of sauce over each.

I don't see why you couldn't steam the fish with white wine, lemon juice, garlic and a bit of olive oil, if you don't care for this Asian spin.

I had set a timer for 12 minutes and put Idaho potatoes into the microwave to bake for 11 minutes, but in only six to seven minutes, I ended up eating the fish with a big organic spring mix salad, then finishing the last few pieces with the potato and salad. With warmed halves of Syrian pocket bread, I enjoyed a couple of salad and salmon sandwiches, too. Yummy.

This fish, sold under the Kirkland name in three-pound bags for under $26 (eight fillets in my bag),  will be great once a week until summer, when fresh Copper River salmon fillets from Alaska start showing up in Costco's refrigerated cases. You can also find frozen Alaskan salmon and other frozen fish at Trader Joe's and Whole Foods Market.