Happy New Year - and Japanese dinners!

[owned_by_a_cat]

A very Happy New Year to you all - lots of love, success and plenty of stories!
We've had our laziest Christmas break EVER. Barely set foot out of the house once the family Christmas bit was over - the weather wasn't helping - and just lazed around reading, writing, eating and listening to music until I started to wonder if this is what hibernation feels like.

Today though, life started bright, sunny (shock-horror!) and with a tandem ride.  Cold but invigorating - except for the state of the roads after three weeks of heavy rain and a dose or two of frost.  The sudden improvement in weather wasn't the real shock, though. That honour goes to my husband's "Can we have a Japanese dinner tonight?"  Speechless doesn't quite cover it.

He's had to put up with my Bleach-induced Japanese food odyssee (chocolate-covered watermelon onigiri?) for almost a year now and, on the whole, has been very patient with me - even taking me to Toku for my birthday dinner.  Not easy, that, seeing he's Vegetarian.  So now I'm unexpectedly playing with a Japanese-themed New Year's Day dinner.  Created from ingredients I happen to have around the house right at the end of the Christmas break. As challenges go, this.. is a nice one!

Comments

[tylashke.livejournal.com]

Amused by the onigiri. That sounds a little like what Orihime would come out with. I hope you have fun with planning and creating the dinner!

[owned-by-a-cat.livejournal.com]

You're quite right - Orihime is responsible for that one. Found it in one of the first Bleach fanfics I read. Chocolate and watermelon together confused me some, and since I had no idea what onigiri was, I had to go and find out...
Dinner worked out very well. Not sure how "Japanese" it really was, but the flavours were there.