For tonight's dinner, I cooked Kayaku gohan (= a rice dish with seasonal ingredients), that I learnt from a recipe my mom sent to me.
This is Kayaku (= a mixture) that goes into rice. It includes, diced chicken, fried tofu, carrots and burdocks, seasoned with soy source, sake and sweet rice wine.
Burdocks add very nice rich flavor.
So, here's how our dinner table looks tonight.
Nothing fabulous but tried my best as a freshman housewife!
Kayaku Gohan turned out very good! Next to it, is a soup made of fish broth, cooked with Shiikake (mashroom) and Mizuna.
By the way, fish broth is a key in Japanese cooking. Both rice dish and the soup used a packaged fish flakes* my mom purchased from Seikatsu club (one of co-op groups).
*each bag contains fish flakes and you can extract fine broth in 600ml boiling water.
To mom,
I've read the book you sent to me and I came to realize the importance of food again. Thank you!
