Washism

1st bento of the year

This was J bento on monday.

Pumkin and beef croquette, radish and ham salad, and mini pasta.

Remember the Dutch spiced cake i made a few weeks ago? Searching for the recipe lead me to find out that the Dutch eat croqettues pretty often too. Called Kroketten, it is pretty much the same as the Japanese version. Goes well with beer i guess. Decided to make croquettes after reading about Krokettens.

Tried making roast beef today~

Garlic black pepper roast beef with carrot glaces, New year egg roll (called datemaki>read as dah teh mah key), kimchi salad, and stewed purple cabbage. Together with rice topped with tororo.

Tororo is basically grated mountain yam. And on traditionally, on the 3rd day of the new year, it is believed that eating it will give you a year of health.

There are many ways to eat tororo. We had this on monday, a bit late, but as long as you eat this within the 1st 10 days of the new year, you should be fine =P.

Mondays toro was topped with soy beans, together with soy sauce, ginger and nori.

お好み焼き伊達巻

So this was the okonomiyaki flavoured datemaki i tried making today.

七の草　Seven types of grass

Well, not really grass, just vegetables. 7 different kinds, topped on porridge, eaten on the 7th day of the new year. Believed to help you prevent a year of flu. =)

So on wednesday, we had brown rice porridge topped with the 7 vegetables (sold in a set usually).

together with ginger sesame oil stewed pork and eggs, salad and fried burdock.

The pork was indeed warming. It is getting colder each day, and according to the news, it might snow in Tokyo tomorrow. brrrrgh