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Mizore Nabe


Mizore is the Japanese word for sleet. And nabe refers to a hot pot. For this recipe, you add grounded daikon, which resembles wet snow. Its tasty and contains lots of vitamins! Also it is very good with mochi (Japanese rice cake). We eat a lot mochi in New Year season, so it’s perfect for the new year!

Yield: 2 servings
Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients
  • 1/2 lb ground pork
  • 1/8 napa (cut 1.5″ x 1″)
  • 1/8 medium onion (chopped)
  • 1/3 cup gren onion (chopped)
  • 1/2 daikon (ground)
  • 1 tsp ginger (ground)
  • 2 mochi (Japanese rice cakes)

Spices

  • 2 tbsp sake
  • 2 tbsp mirin
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • dash salt
  • 1/2 tsp sesame oil
  • 3C dashi soup or 8g hondashi in 3C water

Preparation

    1. Knead ground pork, onion, sesame oil, ginger, salt and make small meatballs
    2. Boil dashi soup and add sake, soy sauce, mirin, and sugar in a pot
    3. Add meatballs in a pot and boil for 5 minutes over med heat. In the same time heat a frying pan and grill mochi on both sides 2 minutes each over medium heat.
    4. Add mochi and napa in a pot, boil for 5 minutes then sprinkel with daikon and green onion

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    Shiruko - Sweet Mochi Soup


    Shiruko Photo (c) Setsuko Yoshizuka
    Shiruko or o-shiruko is a Japanese red bean soup with mochi rice cakes. It’s sweet and is often eaten during the winter in Japan. There is a Japanese tradition called kagami biraki which literally means “opening the mirror.” It actually indicates breaking of kagami mochi (a stack of two round rice cakes) which was placed in the house during New Year’s holidays. Kagami biraki is held on January 11th, and the broken pieces of kagami mochi are cooked in various ways. The most commonly eaten mochi dish on this day is o-shiruko. If you don’t have the time to make anko yourself, buy a can of yude-azuki (boiled red beans) and make the soup.

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    Shiruko - Sweet Mochi Soup originally appeared on About.com Japanese Food on Friday, January 1st, 2010 at 08:29:17.

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    Vietnamese Restaurants: Annam (revisited)


    Pa in seo/Japanese okonomiyaki!

    Annam is probably not only the only authentic Vietnamese restaurant in Shizuoka Prefecture, but is definitely in a clss of its own.
    If I listened to the Missus we would visit the place every week!LOl
    Antway, the other day my best friedn, who happens to be Irish, and his Jpanese wife came to visit us after a lapse of two years.
    We just couldn’t find a better reason to visit our favourite South Asian restaurant!

    Here is what we ordered:

    The Vietnamese have brewed beer for a long time and thier 333 is as good as any!

    Artistic and very light raw spring rolls with shrimps.

    Healthy green papaya and shrimp salad.

    Stir-fried chicken and deep-fried rice cakes.

    French influence in the steamed French bread with shrimp and peanuts topping.

    As the beer and the sake (from Shizauok) has disappeared quickly, we chose a honest and reliable bottle of French Cotes du Rhone from Annam’s very decent wine list.

    Home-made Vietnamese ham as a complimentary dish!

    Stir-fried chicken and deep-fried imperial rolls with cold rice noodles salad.

    Very light stir-fried vegetables in sweet and sour sauce.

    Pa in seo/Vietnamese okonomiyaki, the specialty of the restaurant.
    Enormous but as light as a feather and filled with loads of beansprouts!

    No we did not have dessert, but pho soup instead!

    Can’t wait for the next visit!

    Shizuoka City, Aoi-Ku, Tenmacho, 17-9
    Tel.: 054-2502266
    Fax: 054-2502323
    Lunch: 11:30~14:30
    Dinner: 17:00~22:00 (last orders: 21:30)
    Closed on Mondays and day after National Holidays
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