Tonight’s Dinner – Karaage (Japanese-style fried chicken)
Tonight’s dinner: Karaage (唐揚げ)
Tonight’s Dinner – Karaage (Japanese-style fried chicken)
Category: Food
Tonight’s Dinner – Karaage (Japanese-style fried chicken)
Home Cooking
Japanese Curry
Homemade Shumai
I am so happy that my family is back from Japan. Besides being reunited with them, I missed my wife’s home-cooking! Last year, she had cooked a huge pot of curry and froze it for me to eat while they were away. This year I wasn’t so lucky… but that made the “homecoming” curry even better. She also brought back some really cool steaming equipment and made some delicious shumai in it. Yum!!!
Korean BBQ House on my Running Route
On my normal running route around the neighborhood, there is a hill at about the 4 mile mark. At the top of this hill is a house. And the people who live in this house often barbeque. And the kind of meat they barbeque is Korean Kalbi. It smells sooooooo goooooood!!! By the time I run past, my stomach is growling like crazy! I need to befriend this family.
Valentine’s Dinner
Fondue Dinner
One of our family traditions is that we have a lovely fondue dinner to celebrate Valentine’s Day. This year, the dinner was on the 15th because we attended a Chinese New Year’s celebration on the 14th. But, the fondue was excellent as always (even tastier this year, in my opinion) and the four of us really enjoyed ourselves. I’m not sure how or when the fondue tradition started, but it is something we look forward to every year. It’s so yummy!
This year, the kids had LED ice cubes in their drinks, while Mariko and I enjoyed a bottle of Prosecco. The cheese fondue was accompanied by French bread, bratwurst, cauliflower, potato, and ravioli. The chocolate fondue (not pictured) was accompanied by banana, strawberries, and marshmallows. Just FYI, Mariko and I had a cheese fondue that had white wine added, and our chocolate fondue had some chocolate liqueur added. Mmmm. So good!
Setsubun
Ehoumaki for Setsubun
Yesterday was Setsubun (節分)! As always, Mariko made delicious ehoumaki (恵方巻き) sushi rolls, which I always look forward to. For those of you not familiar with this tradition, you are supposed to face the lucky direction, which happens to be West-Southwest for this year, and eat your sushi-roll without speaking. It’s fun and delicious!
