Food glorious shokuryou!



Again, not much knitty content although, contained within my Japanese Christmas homework, I have to learn the word for Yarn. Not a problem! The 3 characters to the right of the diagram are 'Ke', 'i' and 'to'. Keito - which means knitting wool, and also condemned person, prisoner according to this online dictionary ... hmm...

Japanese food we made last night at Japanese - the top is Futomaki [thick rolls of seaweed with rice and filling], and the bottom two are Aburage [tofu envelope thing with vingared rice inside - left] and Gunkan-maki [similar to the Futomaki except they are made individually with strips and 'filled', rice first - right]

It was my first ever try eating Japanese food, and all the better for the fact that the teacher was making 'proper' Japanese food. I have to say the rice was more sweet than I expected, and the whole thing was way more filling than I expected.

Still not sure I liked it, but I am prepared to open my mind [and probably close my eyes initially] so that I can experience Japan properly, and not spend my time there nursing English tea in Starbucks like a sap.

I was apprehensive in Singapore when I went a few years back and have never tasted food better anywhere since!

A lot of my food 'fusiness' stems from just about everything giving me migraines, and a fear that language barriers will cause misunderstandings that waste my precious Japan time in a hotel bedroom with a migraine.




And a more 'traditional' cooking experience - Christmas Fruit Cupcakes with Brandy and Christmassy spices, from Cupcakes Galore. I couldn't find crystallised fruits in Asda and so substituted sultanas, since it was blowing a gale outside, and I couldn't be bothered to trail Glasgow. It's been raining here for about 100 years *sigh*

These are delish, and definately got me in the Christmas spirit!

Comments

  1. Kathleen12 December, 2006 17:47

    Hey, your Japanese food looks fantastic, wish I could reach into the screen and grab a bite, I really like that sort of thing. Yum yum.

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  2. Anonymous12 December, 2006 17:53

    HAve you been to Ichiban on Dumbarton Rd, just at the bottom of Byres Road - they do great sushic - with/without fish
    India
    PS - you are wrong, It has been raing for several millenia

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  3. Anonymous12 December, 2006 20:53

    Elaine, am soo jealous, would love to learnJapanese and make Japanese good (use Miso soup sachets instead of stock, mmmm)
    Shopping last Wednesday I left a bag in a shop - when I went back, thankfull they had it - all the Shop assistant kept saying was Sushi (small snack curtesy of M&S). When i got to Customer Services to get bag, again Sushi.
    I think they expected some petite Japanese lady to reclaim the bag, desperate to eat the Sushi.
    As for the rain - its almost at Tsunami proportions in Gourock, but still the Western Ferries keep crossing that River.

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  4. Claire14 December, 2006 14:58

    sushi is so easy to make! we had the same evening at our class last year - i am now addicted to plum wine!

    meh-ri ka ri sa ma su!

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