scott & karin

Jeff and I went to Fune with Scott and Karin last night. It was Karin's first time trying sushi! She bravely tried everything and liked most of what she tried. The photo at the top was taken at Fune; the bottom photo is Karin trying out my harp.

NaNoWriMo report: 28,499 wds written, 21,501 to go. Doodle journal updated.

Poll: Do you like sushi?

Do you enjoy eating at Japanese restaurants? If so, what do you order most often? Have you ever eaten sushi? Did you like it? What are your favourite types of sushi?

Answer here

Some people ask me if I ate Japanese food a lot when I was a kid. Depends on how strict a definition you put on it. We mostly ate Western food since it was more convenient while I was growing up, but I remember a lot of Japanese-type rice served with meals.

We'd have sukiyaki every so often, which I loved...Mom would set up an electric cooking pan in the middle of the table, heat up some homemade sukiyaki sauce, then add vegetables, noodles, thinly sliced beef, cook it at the table. The food seemed to taste so much yummier when you saw it being cooked right in front of you. The only thing I wouldn't eat were the vermicelli noodles, which I called "worm noodles" because that's what they looked like.

Mom did make nori-make ever so often, and would use boiled spinach, dashi, pink fish powder, gourd strips, shiitake mushrooms, broiled eel, and cooked egg for the filling. I still remember the fragrance of the sushi rice as she stirred it after adding the rice vinegar. We kids had the job of fanning the rice while she stirred it (I think it keeps the rice from sticking together too much? or helps spread the rice vinegar?).

I wrote more about this memory and other favourite childhood Japanese foods last December ("Food Memories").





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One year ago, Scott (yes, the same Scott in the photo today!) stood me up for our Harry Potter movie date, so I ended up seeing it alone. Allison saw Harry Potter twice in one day last year. I didn't go see it yesterday because Jeff said he'd see it with me this weekend.

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