Thursday, October 7, 2010

Salt hotpot

The lady upstairs is going wham wham wham wham wham at the mattress again!!!
I really detest this Japanese culture of dusting the futons.
In fact, recent news say that dusting them only brings the dirt/dust further into the mattress, so vacuuming them out is the best way. SO STOP DUSTING YOUR FUTONS!!!
I don't like my laundry peppered with your strands of hair.

Ok cool cool.
These days, H seems to be doing this stretch pose pretty often.
Ready? On your mark, get set -
I don't know where is he going.

Dinner last night was an experiment with salt.
Most hotpots here are very flavoured. Spicy, cheese, sweet shoyu based, curry, miso, miso butter, and the list goes on.
Very yummy cos very well flavoured chemically.
You know why Japanese instant noodles taste so good? The same idea.
Well, so i decided to try to go sans chemical yesterday for our root vegetable hot pot.
Lotus root, daikon, carrots, baby onions, konbu, soy beans and some pork pieces. Salt
Fullstop.
The stock tasted greeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaat!
The vegetables tasted soooooooooooooo goooooooooood!
A technique which mum always uses.
Stewing the vegetables and meat, then adding salt to taste last.
Simple taste, satisfying.

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