In addition to some fish meals, my mother kindly made delicious non-fish meals during my visit!
According to my requests,
Kuri-gohan or steamed rice with chestnuts,
Ton-shabu or boiled thin-sliced pork with salad,
Sui-Gyoza or boiled pork dumplings.
Stir-fried pork, eggplant, garlic chives with
Miso.
Oyako-Dombri or chicken and egg rice bowl simmered with soy-sauce based sweet savory sauce along with onion and
Shiitake-mushroom, garnished with
Mitsuba, or Japanese wild parsley.
Two kinds of Korokke, or Japanese deep-fried dish: traditional potato & beef and scallop & sea urchin flavored bechamel sauce.
Chikuzen-ni, or braised chicken, fried
Tofu and vegetables like carrot, lotus roots,
Konnyaku or yam jelly.
Tori-Dango or chicken dumpling soup with
Nira or garlic chives.
Yu-Dofu or
Tofu cooked in delicate soup made with
Kombu or kelp seaweed, served with savory dipping sauce made with soy-sauce, Japanese citrus, scallions, and grated
Daikon reddish (along with
Tofu, my mother cooked vegetables like mushroom,
Kikuna or edible chrysanthemum greens,
Hakusai or chinese nappa cabbage).
Ton-jiru or
Miso-soup with thin-sliced pork and vegetables and store-bought
Makizushi and
Inarizushi. I realized somehow almost always pork; never beef. That was my father's new diet trends. Well, I like Japanese pork; I wouldn't complain.
Simple steamed rice with savory dried
Nori seaweed,
Nori seaweed simmered in soy sauce and
Mirin...
And more rice, more Miso-soup, more seaweed, steamed local black soy beans, etc.
I like my own cooking, but if I could eat my mother's cooking everyday, how wonderful it would be! What would my mother say???
