What this meant was an excuse for these things: drinking jelly yuzu sake, drinking Suntory whisky, drinking Mio sparkling sake, eating cake in local cafes, and cooking foods at home.
First night: we made hotpot on our little induction hob. My wife and I do this fairly regularly, often enough that I didn't actually take a photo of this time around. Still, this photo is representative:
We buy ingredients from our local Chinese supermarket, and then we make up a stock base (this time it was pork bone broth) and add delicious foods to it until they're cooked. It's a very social thing, all cooking and taking food from the same pot. Usually our hotpots include frozen porkballs, frozen dumplings, frozen rolled meat slices, fried tofu, some sort of greens plus noodles at the end to soak up the last of the broth. By the time the noodles go in I'm usually already too full to eat more, I have to admit.
The second night: we bought a bunch of meat, marinated them in different sauces for a few hours at home, and then used a griddle pan on our induction hob as a yakiniku/korean BBQ sort of rig. You fry your meats, and again, socially all cook and eat from the same pan. Along with the meats we also had red pepper and courgette, and some of the leftover fried tofu.
This was our first experiment with this; it made the house very smoky (we could still smell fried meat the next day) and our particular induction hob got a little grumpy about being used in temperature mode for some reason. Still, it was absolutely delicious. Bulgogi beef and miso pork and fried courgettes all in the same meal is a great, great thing.
On the sunday night my wife made 'I don't know what to make' noises and then went off and made omerice for us all.
Omerice is one of those foods that tastes better than it sounds: tomato-ey fried rice wrapped inside an omelette, topped with ketchup. It's a comforting staple of home-cooked Japanese cuisine, and it is actually delicious.
A good weekend of fooding! And the dozen packets of crisps I also consumed were excellent too.
Omerice is something I had regularly in Korea and it's so good! (I would not be surprised if it were a Japanese import, but to be honest I don't know who thought it up first.)
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