Japanese home cooking

Another day at cchw's apartment for a home cooking dinner, we transformed ourselves into japanese aunties making a home style japanese meal minus the curly auntie hair style, floral aprons, and slippers with white socks.

First we had the sake flavored pomfret. The sauce which was cooked with dashi was extremely tasty.

Miso soup with clams. Clams were very sweet with light miso taste. This is so easy to make.

Sauteed gobo and carrots in dashi sauce. I always like gobo because of its bitterness and crunchy texture. the dashi sauce did lighten some of the bitterness of gobo, it was perfect with a hint of sesame oil and lots of sesame seeds.

Instead of grilling the yakionigini we used a frying pan to sear the rice balls. We made two kinds of nigini - cured plums and miso paste. A bit tricky to make the miso rice balls since it was easily burnt with miso on the surface.

For dessert something quick and easy. Sesame shiratama with vanilla ice cream with kinako dusting.

What a successful cookout again.. we were becoming more efficient and managed to finish cooking within an hour... our skills were just getting better and better!