⚾ Family-Style Catering for the Mariners + Enoki Tofu 🍄
Updated: Oct 15
Oven-baked karaage, prepared for family-style catering.
🍱 From Our Kitchen: A First for the Mariners
Through an introduction from the Nationals Park manager, we had the wonderful opportunity to deliver family-style catering to the Seattle Mariners. This was our first time providing a visiting MLB team with shared dishes rather than individual bento boxes.
The menu included our oven-baked karaage, rice, and salmon onigiri. Thinking that some players might be less familiar with Japanese food, we suggested plain onigiri—white rice balls—instead of serving all the rice loose on compostable trays. They were happy to go with it!
Salmon onigiri and plain rice balls.
Our MLB orders come directly from each team’s registered dietitian. It’s inspiring to see how seriously top athletes take their nutrition, and a joy to share our Japanese home cooking with them.
A conversation at Eastern Market
A customer who loved our kinpira gobo (braised burdock root) mentioned that she could make it herself, so it felt a little pricey. We understood! Then she explained that the ingredients were hard to find nearby, and preparing just a small amount took a lot of effort.
She ended up taking some home.
It was a good reminder of what Harmonious Kitchen is here for: making it easy to enjoy dishes that are hard to find ingredients for or too time-consuming to make at home.
— Takako
🍄 A Little More: Quick Recipe — Enoki Tofu
Enoki tofu—a simple dish to enjoy over rice or udon.
This recipe is inspired by Ms. Okuzono’s cooking. With tofu and enoki mushrooms, it’s an easy, comforting dish to make at home. It shares flavors with our Tofu Steak, which pairs king oyster mushrooms with a silky enoki sauce.
Time: about 15 minutes • Serves 2–3
Ingredients
Tofu: 1 block (300–400 g)
Enoki mushrooms: 1 pack (200 g)
Soy sauce and mirin: 2 tablespoons each
Water: 50 ml, plus water to dissolve the starch
Potato starch: 1 teaspoon
Ginger: 1 knob
Green onion: to taste
Optional: bonito flakes, 1 pack (4 g)
How to make it
Cut tofu into cubes. Shred the enoki mushrooms starting from the tops.
Add tofu, enoki, soy sauce, mirin, and 50 ml water to a frying pan. Cover and cook over medium heat for 3–5 minutes.
Turn off the heat. Push tofu and enoki to one side, add the potato starch dissolved in water to the liquid, and mix. Combine everything and cook for another 1–2 minutes.
Mix in ginger and the optional bonito flakes, then top with sliced green onion.
Enjoy over rice as a rice bowl, or as a topping for udon noodles.
🗓️ Find Us & Order
Planning a gathering? We’d love to help with catering.
Thank you so much for your continued support! — Harmonious Kitchen Team
From our newsletter for the week of June 14–20, 2026.
日本語：シアトル・マリナーズへのファミリースタイルケータリング
昨日6月14日（日）、ナショナルズ球場のマネージャーのご紹介で、シアトル・マリナーズにファミリースタイルのケータリングをお届けしました。MLB遠征チームへのお弁当形式ではなく、ファミリースタイルでのお届けは今回が初めてです。
ご注文いただいたメニューは、揚げない唐揚げ・ごはん・サーモンおにぎり。マリナーズといえばイチロー選手の活躍が思い浮かびますが、現在チームに日本人選手はいらっしゃらないとのこと。日本食に馴染みが薄い方もいらっしゃるかもと考え、白むすびをご提案したところ、快くご了承いただきました。日本ではおにぎりは常温で食べることが一般的で、調理後4時間以内であれば食品安全的にも問題ありません。Harmonious Kitchenの揚げない唐揚げは、冷めても美味しいのが自慢です。
MLBの各チームには専属の管理栄養士がいらっしゃり、トップアスリートたちが食を真剣に考えていることに、私自身も励まされます。
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