BREAKFAST ---homemade sweet rice dumpling in fermented sweet rice broth (酒釀湯圓)| oat porridge with seasoned kombu and bonito | fruit
DINNER --- grilled shishito pepper and leek | lightly pickled cucumber |steamed and pan-seared Korean sticky rice blood sausage | pan-fried gyoza | a pot of "eight delights" : mushroom, kombu roll, mountain yam noodle bundle, tofu, gingko seeds, pounded rice cake stick, daikon, chrysanthemum greens, simmered in dashi | rice
the year of the ox
in fermented sweet rice broth
with homemade seasoned kelp and bonito flakes
steamed and pan-seared Korean sticky rice sausage
a simmering pot of "eight delights"
- a lot of food, vegetables mostly.
- a quiet new year.