While I was staying at my parents house, I was never hungry. This was take-out
Inari sushi lunch from a local department store.
Steamed rice was always the center of the meal. And the meal always finishes with a cup of hot green tea and some fruit (or sweets).
Sometimes we had bread for breakfast. This was the City Bakery's famous Pretzel croissant. The NYC-based bakery has opened a new store in Osaka recently.
Back to rice. And
Natto,
fermented soybeans. It's a traditional Japanese food and well-known as super healthy food. I call it "sticky stinky beans" because of what it is. My favorite!
Another bread breakfast. Half of pear & ginger muffin and half of blueberry and corn meal muffin.
Ginger pork sauteed with onion. Onion helps Vitamin B in pork to be absorbed in body according to TV. My mother and I believed it.
Some kinds of vegetable soup like Miso soup is often a part of a meal.
Rice with spring bamboo shoot,
Agedashi-tofu, boiled spring flower blossoms, red snapper and tuna
Sashimi, spicy steamed eggplant, and
Wakame seaweed soup. And a table cloth! It was because my brother and his wife (my new sister-in-law) visited us for this lunch.
Dinner of my last day was Okonomiyaki, Japanese pancake, especially famous in the Osaka region where we are. There are many different toppings for Okonomiyaki; we made traditional pork and noodle, or
Buta Modan.
And fresh strawberries as desserts.
Eating at home with family is all in all to me.
