The year 2021 has begun.
Everyone
"happy new year!"
Thank you for your continued support this year
This is my favorite flower, the wintersweet. It has a wonderful scent.
This year's New Year's holiday is the "Year of the Ox," so I spent it lazing around.
And I've been really hungry lately.
Are you trying to prepare your body to withstand the cold?
Or maybe he's trying to hibernate again...
Either way, you're trying to save! Definitely.
There's no other way...
However, even I was busy during the New Year holidays, so this year I bought half of the New Year's food and made the other half.
This is what it looks like
(*Osechi ryori was originally not just for New Year's, but was also eaten as an offering to the gods to celebrate New Year's Day and other seasonal festivals, and was called "osechiku." During the Edo period, the food served on New Year's Day, the most important of the year's seasonal festivals, came to be called "osechi ryori."
It is also said that the first three days of the New Year are meant to give the god of the hearth a rest, and to express the kind wish to free mothers from housework, so ingredients that can be easily preserved are the main focus.
And the most enjoyable side dish (snack) for dinner (evening drinks) is, without a doubt, fluffy horse sashimi!
(※Locals eat it on special occasions such as New Year's or when inviting guests.)
I absolutely adore this, slurp it down with garlic, ginger and soy sauce, and then sip on a beer! Ah, I'm so happy!
Lean meat is enough! No! Lean meat is better!!
It's also great with hot white rice.
(※ Basashi is a meat that is high in protein and low in fat! The fat does not oxidize easily and does not easily become body fat. It also contains more than twice the calcium and iron content of other meats.
Glycogen also helps to recover from fatigue and enhances umami, making it both delicious and healthy.
The best part of the New Year is "Ozoni"
I'm sure the seasonings and ingredients vary depending on each country's customs and culture, but what is it like in your home?
In my hometown, the style is quite simple: rice cakes are placed directly in a salt-based broth containing only daikon radish, and then topped with boiled spinach, kamaboko, mitsuba, yuzu, and nori seaweed.
It's a must-have for New Year's
This is an amazing dish that allows you to fully enjoy the New Year with just one dish!
In addition, dried persimmons, which are prepared every autumn,
Koshu Hyakumegaki persimmons (large astringent persimmons weighing 350g to 500g each) are painstakingly applied, and the fruit is slowly prepared in accordance with the weather of the year.
Sweet and moist
You can eat it as is.
You can also make it into tempura.
Put it in pickled vegetables
It is also delicious as dried fruit in yogurt or cereal.
It may seem a bit niche, but it pairs perfectly with cheese and chocolate!
It is rich in beta-carotene and vitamin A, which helps strengthen the stomach and intestines.
Other favorite foods for New Year's include herring roe and salmon roe!
And delicious food galore,
Well, if you indulge in such luxury and just laze around, well...
I need to get my body back into its normal rhythm soon!!!
That said
Eating is very important
Your body can only be made up of what you put in your mouth (and of course, exercise is important too!).
Food becomes our blood, flesh, and bones, and the joy of feeling "delicious" brings smiles to our faces and makes us feel happy.
And I think that's more about health than anything else.
What discoveries will there be this year?
What fun things...
What kind of encounter...
Even though I'm old, I'm still growing up.
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"Thank you for your continued support this year!"
We hope that 2021 will be a healthy, meaningful and happy year for everyone.
See you next time!
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