How to make an unpleasant daikon delicious

I worked yesterday.

Since I finished working earlier than usual, I come home at 4:30pm.

Since it was a very cold day yesterday, I wanted to eat something warm.

I made Tonjiru for dinner.

Tonjiru is miso soup with pork and vegetables.

As a child, my mother used to make it on such a cold day like today.

"I am going to use this daikon which you harvested yesterday for dinner. But... this radish smells a little hot. I wonder if it's OK. Well, maybe it doesn't matter."

My husband and our 5-year-old daughter harvested it from our garden last Saturday.

I cut pork, daikon, carrot, green onions, burdock and shimeji mashrooms.

Then I stir-fried them and boiled them in soup stock for a while, then I put miso and dissolved it in the soup.

After I finished making Tonjiru, I had a taste.

"Why?? It isn't tasty. Oh, I've got it! Maybe it is because of Daikon. Hey, have a taste this!"

My husband tried to taste it.

"This daikon have a strong alkaline taste. You should have pre-boiled it in advance."

"But, I didn't think that it was such an unpleasant taste!"

I was really disappointed.

I asked:

"Is it edible for you? I don't want to eat it."

"It is edible for me. Wait, I will add this."

He suddenly started grating ginger and put it in the Tonjiru.

"Have a taste!"

I tasted it.

"Oh! It is nice! Wow, you are great!"

He rescued my failed dish brilliantly!

"Thank you! I am counting on you!"

Thnaks to him, we enjoyed having dinner.

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Easy and Yummy Nabe (hot pot)

Since we have a lot of Chinese cabbages, I made "Nabe" for yesterday's dinner.

I searched the recipes using "Cookpad".

It is one of the popular websites in Japan where we can search for a lot of recipes posted by the members.

I could find recipes by entering the food names or keywords which I want to use.

I chose the recipe called "Millefeuille pot".

The procedure is quite easy.

First, cut the Chinese cabbage, pork, and mushrooms.

Put vegetables and pork alternately into the pot.

Then stew them with soup stock, sake, salt, and soy sauce.

That's all!

I asked my children to make grated radish.

They said,

"I want to try!"

It needs strength when they grate radish, but they did good job!

I put grated radish only in my bowl because it has a pungent smell and taste so maybe my children won't like it.


I thought my children would complain about the menu.

As a child, I didn't like Nabe dishes.

They usually don't attract children.

As I expected, they said,

"Oh no! Nabe! I don't want to eat it!"

I told them,

"Don't say that. You haven't even tried it. It is yummy!"

They started eating them unwillingly.

Suddenly my 6-year-old son said,

"It is yummy!"

Then my 5-year-old daughter also said,

"Yeah! Yummy! We are holding Nabe party today!"

I knew they would like to eat Nabe because they were really hungry yesterday.


I made "Ojiya" using leftover Nabe soup.

I put rice and beaten egg in the soup, then stew them.

My daughter told me that she didn't want to eat it at first.

But I put it in front of her, and she said,

"Wow! Smells good! I want to eat it!"

She ate half of mine.

Nabe dish made us warm and happy last night.


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The meaning of "Itadakimasu"

I bought clams at the supermarket and put them into the salt water at home yesterday.

I was going to make steamed clams with sake.

Then I found that clams were moving more actively than usual.

I wanted to show them to my children, so I called them, "Come on! You will be able to watch clams are moving!"

They came running to me immediately saying "I want to watch them!".

"Wow! They were moving!"

They were excited to watch that one of the clam was splashing water from its mouth.

They watched them for a while, then my 6-year-old son told me seriously.

"Are you going to kill them from now?"

I answered, "Of course. I am going to make steamed clams with sake. You like it very much, don't you?"

He said, "No! I feel sorry for them. I want to raise them!"

My 4-year-old daughter also said,

"Don't kill them, mom. You are cruel!"

I told them,

"They can't live apart from the sea.

 You always say "Itadakimasu" before you eat something, don't you?

 It means that we are going to eat lives of other living things gratefully.

For example, you like fried  chicken, don't you?

They were also alive before.

So I think we may eat them with thanks, and you will grow bigger."

They were listening to my story seriously.

I don't know whether they could understand our common way of thinking of "Itadakimasu" or not.

They ate clams saying "How delicious they are! How nice!"

I wish that they will be able to eat without likes and dislikes of food and understand my story some day.


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I gave ourselves a reward for working hard

I wrote that I gave myself a reward for working hard when I was busy in my past entry.

→ http://a-o-j-m.blogspot.jp/2014/11/happy-wednesday-giving-myself-reward.html

Since my husband is very busy and he has to work every Saturday and Sunday recently, I have to take care of my children and do housework almost alone.

I had been very busy and tired.

But he had a day off last Friday after a long interval.

I hit on a good idea and called him after I finished my work.

"Why don't we go out for dinner tonight?"

In fact, I don't like cooking very much.

I was about tired of handmade meals by myself, so I wanted to give ourselves a reward for working hard.

He said, "OK."

We decided to go to the Japanese food restaurant where I have been to once with my co-workers.

We chose ”all-you-can-eat Japanese foods” that we could eat sushi, tempura, shabu-shabu, and so on.

My 6-year-old son ate eight fried chicken and my 4-year-old daughter ate five chocolate donuts!

All of us ate too much but we could have dinner together after a long time and have a good time.

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Bento (Lunch Box) for my son

My 6-year-old son will make a field trip to the aquarium today.

I made a Bento (lunch box) for him.

In fact, I am not good at cooking.

I can't make a pretty and elaborately arranged lunch box which other mothers make.

I only put foods which he likes.

He had too many likes and dislikes when he entered the nursery school.

But now he can eat more than before.

I can find his growth in his lunch box which I made.

I hope he will enjoy the field trip!

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They ate dinner up! ~ I recall the days that I suffered from my children's picky eating ~

Today's topic is about food again.

I made "Oden" on Monday.

(11/25 diary entry → http://a-o-j-m.blogspot.jp/2014/11/yummy-oden-i-cant-stop-eating.html )

On the next day after  I make "Oden", I often cook "Takikomi-gohan" with soup of the "Oden".

This is yesterday's dinner.

< Menu >

 

Takikomi-gohan

 

soup with beaten egg

 

ham salad

 

Japanese tea

I spent too much time making "Takikomi-gohan", so the other dishes were corner-cutting cooking.

But, my children ate them completely saying "Mom, these are yummy! Couldn't be better!"


They used to be picky eaters.

My son was especially terrible when he was 2 years old.

He only ate sweet breadsticks.

Since he didn't eat though I devised ways to make dishes easy to eat,he still didn"t eat so  I was so hurt.

I wrote the sentence below on a piece of  paper and stuck it on the fridge so I wouldn't get anggry with him.

 "It's NOT a big deal though if he eats breadsticks for three meals because he is my lovely son."


But now, he is able to eat everything including green vegetables though he sometimes says " I don't like this".

Thanks to the school lunch.

Cooks prepare nutrionally-balanced meal which is good for children everyday.

We had an enjoyable dinner time.



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Yummy Oden! I can't stop eating!

"Oden" is one of the popular winter dishes in Japan.

"Hanpen"(fish minced and steamed), "Chikuwa" (a tubular roll of boiled fish paste), "Konnyaku", boiled eggs and Japanese radish etc. are stewed in a saucepan with hot soup.

We feel warm after we eat it.

It was not cold yesterday, but I wanted to eat "Oden".

In my case, I use oyster source, salt, "Hondashi(bonito fish soup stock)" as ingredients of the soup.

The food is well flavored by soup, my children and I could not stop eating!

I like eating "Oden" with "Miso"(a kind of Japanese seasoning).

The photo below is the Japanese radish and konnnyaku with miso.

It was yummy!

My son told me " You will make Takikomi-gohan (steamed rice with vegetables and meat mixed in) tomorrow, won't you?"

That's right!!

If I cook rice with the soup of "Oden", it will become delicious "Takikomi-gohan"!



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Wonderful and enjoyable Saturday

Since my husband worked from afternoon, my children and I went to my parents' house.

After reaching their house, my mother told me "Why don't you go to the airport? We can see the Christmas illumination  there, so Let's go and see it!"

The airport was so crowded, but fortunately we were able to find a empty parking lot vacated by someone lately.


We had dinner first.

Fried shrimps were very big and yummy!  I felt happy(^^).

There was a big paper lantern near the restaurant.

The flower festival was also held at the airport.

We had a chance to see beautiful Christmas flower arrangements.

This was the Japanese-style arrangement.

Christmas presents looked so cute!

And Christmas illimination was excellent!

We were so excited to see them.

We reached home at 8:10pm.

It was very late for little children, but they didn't fall asleep on our way home.

I guessed because they were too excited to sleep.

But, they fell asleep soon after they got into bed.

We had a very good time.



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After that of Dried persimmons & the larvae of Swallowtail

I wrote that my husband made"Hoshigaki" (the dried persimmons) last month.

*Hoshigaki : from my 10/26 diary entry : http://a-o-j-m.blogspot.jp/2014/10/hoshigaki-dried-persimmons-sukiyaki.html

They finished drying and became like this ↓.

The taste became sweet and the contents include carbohydrates, dietary fiber, minerals, β-carotene, and tannin.

And  we must not eat too much because this calories are high.


I also wrote about the larvae of Swallowtail.

 *from my 10/27 diary entry : http://a-o-j-m.blogspot.jp/2014/10/the-caterpillars-have-increased-than.html

The 5 larvae turned into chrysalis.

 
How long do they take for them to become the butterfly?

If someone knows well about the butterflies, please let me know!


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My sweet home where a little Godzilla lives

I was busy at work yesterday.

I am a part time job worker and I sometimes work on Sunday when my husband has a day off.


I had already decided that the menu for dinner is "curry pan".

I often make hot pot cooking when it is getting colder and colder and my family can eat dinner all together because it is easy to make and it makes us warm.

After I finished working, I stopped at the supermarket and called my husband to ask him whether there are enough vegetables and meat which are insufficient to make a curry pan or not.

On my way home, I expected that I would be busy for housework after I come home.

My husband rarely did housework and my children rarely clean up their toys when I had a work on Sunday.

But when I came back home, I felt the smell of curry.

I thought "By some possibility? "

Wow! He had finished making a curry pan !

And my son came to the entrance and told me "Look mom! We have almost cleaned up the room!"

I was so surprised!

The living room was cleaned by my children!

And I also surprised that my son transformed himself to "Godzilla" using the corrugated cardboard!

Needless to say, we had a wonderful dinner!


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Japanese conscience ~ the unmanned sale stand~

My neighbor's family sometimes opens the unmanned fruits and vegetables sale stand.

They sell fresh fruits and vegetables in the house's garage near the nursery school where my children go everyday.

I noticed that they opened it yesterday, so I bought a bag of persimmons ( there are 7 persimmons in it), a Chinese cabbage, two turnips, and a sweet potato.

Farmers sell the imperfect vegetables which can't sell on the market at unmanned store stands.

They look bad or are too big, but they taste as good as those sold on the market.

A Chinese cabbage, two turnips, and a sweet potato were only 100 yen each.

And the seven persimmons were only 200 yen.

I was so surprised that they were very cheap!

And look at the sweet potato in the photo.

How big it is!

I am planning to do the "Sweet potato party" using it with my family.



I paid 500 yen into an unattended box.

Since the clerk was not there, if I didn't pay for them, our neighbor's family would not notice it.

But we pay for them even if nobody is there, and the box was merely put there, but nobody stole it.

If it were stolen by somebody, they could not prevent it.

I mean, an unmanned sale stand can't be opened and maintained by anyone without our clean conscience.

That is, everyone has a clean conscience not to steal from others.




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persimmons(there were 7 persimmons in it) , a chinese cabbage, a white turnip and a sweet potato.

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"Hoshigaki" (Dried persimmons) & "Sukiyaki"

My husband made"Hoshigaki" (the dried persimmons) yesterday.

"Hoshigaki" is a kind of dried fruit made by drying Japanese persimmons.

The persimmons used for "Hoshigaki" are astringent persimmons.

These persimmons will finish drying in approximately around two weeks.

I feel the autumn in Japan by seeing "Hoshigaki".


The green caterpillar which my son caught at the elementary school(from my 10/24 diary entry) is fine now!

He named it "Aomu-kun" because the green caterpillar is called "Aomushi" in Japanese.

He also caught a pair of piggyback grasshoppers.

I didn't like any insects before, but recently, thanks to him, I am getting used to them little by little .



My husband made "Sukiyaki" for dinner  last night.

He usually doesn't cook.

But as he is good at making "sukiyaki", I asked him to make it for us.

Wow! It looks yummy!

 He cooked some beef and vegetables and prepared beaten raw eggs as a dip.

Let's eat!

......How delicious it is!

Thanks to the "sukiyaki", I will definitely be energetic tomorrow too!


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