Back!

We r back~!
J and I spent a week in Sendai last week.
Sendai is a relatively peaceful city compared to Tokyo, so it was a little break for me. Shopping without the big crowds is less tiring.
The happiness only lasted 2 days though cos J was terribly sick with i dont know what. It was either a terrible case of food poisoining, horrible stomach flu or an influenza gone nuts. He spent the 2nd half of our trip in hospital and in the end couldnt be definitely diagnosed.
So after being discharged, porridge was what we had all week.
Chinese style, Japanese style, Italian stlye. Yup meat sauce on porridge.




This was our Hong Kong style porridge for dinner one evening.

I made lots of milk pudding for his dessert time most of the week

And then we moved on to semi solid

Minestrone with pasta

And finally on sunday, we were ready to have meatballs!

So we did a hotpot dinner~

With side grated sesame topping by the side

This was last nights dinner~

Cheese chicken burger in white vegetble stew


Smoked oysters on a bed of spinach salad
Oysters are one of the famous produce from Sendai, so i bought a pack home

Cow tongue and BBQed beef (yakiniku) are also well know in Sendai. Apparantly, the black haired Yonezawa cows are bred specially for their marbled meat. They are fed a special diet and not even allowed to to have any sexual excitement for it may toughen the meat. The result? Amazingly tender wagyu~

Unfortunately, J didnt manage to eat the gyutan (cow tongue) which i had on the last day, so to make up for that, i bought some nice wagyu from the supermart today and made Yakiniku miso soup.

Tonights dinner was a typical Japanese style course...

Simmered snapper in sesame shoyu

Japanese leek salad with sweet inari beancurd tossed in light curry dressing

Ahh...................