Pink daikon

Winter is the season for daikon (Japanese white radish). Well, usually white. But today i found this at the local vegetable seller.

Pink daikon.

No, not genetically modified.

We had it with grilled fish for dinner.

It is common to eat salt grilled fish with grated daikon to balance out the saltiness.

This was our tonjiru (pork miso soup) tonight.

Tonjiru is the more extravagant version of miso soup. So along with slices of pork, there was thinly sliced burdock, carrots, daikon, shiitake and konnyaku. Since it is taro season, i added taro in too.

This was bento yesterday. Sukiyaki style pork with tofu, simmered taro and carrots from the previous night dinner.

The first time i made pasta with home made bechamel sauce.

This was dinner on sunday night. I cant emphasize enough how cold it is getting day by day. So on a super cold sunday night, we had this nourishing white soup based hot pot. The soup colour was basically a result of many hours of boiling chicken collagen. We added loads of mushrooms, white cabbage, grilled tofu and meat balls in there. and the 2 of us finished it all. On my side, i was basically very relieved the JLPT (annual Japanese Language Proficiency Test) is over, hence the huge appetite. J was probably very hungry. No wifey in the house for lunch equals cheesecake and crackers for lunch for the hubby.