high-class Japanese-style restaurant

My side of family get together at the biggining of the month, and had a little trip. (my uncle's family, my cousin's family, my mon, my grandma and me and my husband.) We staied at really nice Japanese-style hotel, and the dinner was fantastic!! We really enjoyed the time together.
Here are some of the pictures of dinner. ^^

pear with red cheddar cheese

Pear with Red cheddar cheese is really good for dessert. I had this when I was in high school in Colorado, USA. At first I could not bileaved this combinations of cheese and pear. But turn out it was really good. I found red cheddar cheese and pear at the new super market, so I wanted to taste the memorial flavore again. and it was still good, and that taste brought memories back to my heart. ^^

Japanese chicken fried with herb sauce

This is one of my favorate dish. Japanese soy sauce flavored fried chiken with herb sauce. Sause made of ginger, vinegar, and sesame oil with finely-chopped raw cibol. It is really good. If you like spicy chiken, you can make spicy chiken.

And I had Chanpon with it. Chanpon is really easy to make. You can put any kinds of vegitables, and fry hem up and add them with noodle and soup.

Cook using carrots

I still have alot of carrot here... I am eating carrot almost everday, every meal... I was going to make some carrot cake, but I lost my special recipe... humm.. I was really sad....

Wow long time no see... how are you been doing?

I been very busy. ^^ but enogh for my excuse.. let's see what I have made for my dinner, lunch and breakfast. I will just update my pictures, and detal later! haha

This is called Motsunabe.. Its cow innards. broil innards and cabege for about 10 minute with soy sause based soup. Its reallly good. This is country dishes in Fukuoka Kyushu.








This is Rice ball with read Japanese basil . We call it Onigiri. This is traditional rice ball. Rice ball with Japanese basil is really common rice ball in Japan. ^^






This is something that I made with little baby fish. This is goes with rice. If you are bit hungry in the middle of the night, and want to eat something. Here is a good stuff to make you happy.








Chicken thigh with bone stew with Orange jam and soysause. Sounds kind of funny but tast really good. If you make is bit spicy with red pepper, oh, you will enjoy more!







I have more! so check out later!

Japanese Traditional New Year Dish: Osechi

Osechi – ryori is a traditional Japanese New Year food. Usually Osechi ryouri is easily placed in a special box called Jyubako. This jyubako is usually have three-tiered box. And these osechi-ryouri have meaning and reprisent the luck and happiness in the fallowing year. ^^ We start to make this Osech-ryouri from 29th, 30th, and eat this on a new year (Jan 1st) Our new year continue till 3rd of January. We (women) cook a bunch of food at one time it because we don’t need to cook during a new year. We eat a whole food through this 3 days holiday. We did not put a lot of effort to make Osechi this year. Humm… anyway…

In January 1st, we visit home to home to celebrate a new year. First, we visit a husband side of home and celebrate a new year, then visit wife’s house to celebrate a new year. So, basically, we are drinking and eating in the morning to the night. In my case… 1.Visit my in-law parents’ house. (Celebration 1) 2. My husband’s sister came and visits. So celebrate again (Celebration 2). 3. Go visit my mother-in-law’s family home. (Celebration 3), 4. Go visit father-in-law’s family home. So, my January 1st goes like this every year… ^^

When you visitting a house to house, you will have sake (Japanese rice alchole) called Otoso with sliced tangle and dried cuttlefish. You do not care how old you are, you will have otoso. (Picture is my nieces who are 5 years old and 2 years old)

This is how a real Osechi-ryouri looks like.