A Happy New Year 2010!

In Australia, Christmas is the biggest event in the year! but in Japan, the New Year’s Day is the biggest event in the year.

Usually first 3 days are a new year celebration period and spend time with family. Most people go to a shrine for praying for a year.

Children can get New Year’s gift (usually money) from relatives and becoming the richest in the family ^^.

These days supermarkets are open from a New Year’s Day and it is available to buy at stores, so it becomes less family to make an “Osechi-Ryori” which is Japanese Traditional New Year’s Food, but still some family cook it until the New Year’s Eve.

About Osechi Ryori’s origin, you can read from here.

In old time, Japanese ladies cook 3 meals a day for whole year (maybe still like that) and no rest for preparing foods for a family. For avoiding that and have a rest and celebrate a New Year for first 3 days, Osechi-Ryori is prepared until a New Year’s Eve. (Of course there is religious reason, as well).

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My breakfast on Sunday was this plate.  I really wanted to eat rice on that day. But my husband doesn’t want to eat rice in the morning,,,, I wanted to eat sunny-side up, but cooked scrambled egg.

Talking about Sunny-side up, one day, I used the word “sunny-side up” at my work place, then a co-worker laughed at me and said, “we don’t use that word, that’s American use and only in the TV show for us”… I learned Australian say, “fried egg!” and not ‘Sunny-side up”. hahaha…

Well, people plan to go to Japan, I warn you. Usually Japanese traditional hotel’s breakfast is with rice.

• Scrambled egg with Mushroom
• Spinach with grated White Radish (just boil spinach and mix with graded white radish, sauce I used was Ponzu sauce)
• Carrot with pounded sesame seeds

Carrot with pounded Sesame Seeds

<Ingredients>

• Carrot – 1
• Sesami Oil –  1/2 tsp
• Water – 50cc
• Sake (cooking wine) – 1 tbsp
• pinch salt
• Sesame seeds mixture – ground sesame seeds – 2 tbsp, sugar – 1/2 tsp, soy sauce – 1/2 tsp

<How to cook>

1. Mixture all ingredients of Sesame seeds mixture
2. Shred carrot
3. Put sesami oil in pot and fry carrot lightly.
4. Add water, sake and salt into step 3 and cover with lid, then leave it for 2-3 minutes
5. Take a lid off and evaporate water
6. Place it in a bowl and mix with Sesame mixture

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Today, I show our dinners…

These are one plate dinners I cooked…..

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Miso soup is one of famous Japanese dish.
I found a good video at You Tube. Japanese lady is explaining how to make Miso Soup in English!

Recipe of “Dashi” is here.
Dashi Basic Stock

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Tofu and Wakame Seaweed Miso Soup

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My friend, Kyomi, bought me chocolates from “Confiseri Du Plessy Pralin” last month.

I was studying on that time, she gave me it as a present for my effort.

It was so nice chocolate.

Chocolate in Australia is generally too sweet.

But this shop’s chocolates are not so sweet.

She gave me several different taste of chocolates, Milk, White, Dark, and Mocha.

I personally like Mocha.

The shop was introduced at Good Living Guide of Sydney Morning Herald last year.

If you are interested in, here is detail of shop.

Address : Shop 17 Philip Mall, West Pymble, NSW
Phone: 02-9498-8089
Opening times : Mon – Fri: 9am-5pm, Sat: 9am-1pm

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I wish all you have a very merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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