Although this vegetable and pasta stew makes a terrific meal on its own with a green salad, I serve it here with grilled tuna belly.

I like tuna belly grilled briefly outside over a very hot fire.

With a sharp knife remove the thick skin from the outer side of the tuna belly and the white filament-like skin from the inner side.

"Toro," he said, the prized fatty part of the tuna belly.

In this case those marks acknowledge that the role of bacon is being played by smoked tuna belly.

The kitchen serves the basics (tuna belly, California roll) and the exotic (raw-trout napoleons).

Sashimi might feature mackerel or toro (fat tuna belly).

Among them are tuna, toro (the fatty flesh from tuna belly), shrimp, giant clam, mackerel, flounder, eel and crab.

Sashimi has a similar cast of characters, perhaps with some mackerel or toro (tuna belly, which has a richer texture).

(He does show off his house-smoked fish, including an unctuous tuna belly.)