☆春野菜で料理中だょ☆ / ☆Cooking with Spring Vegetables~☆

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Today~~







I'm making dinner using spring vegetables (haruyasai)~~






First is this little guy











Shintamanegi
[note: 'shin' means "new," and 'tamanegi' is the word for (regular) onion; it's the name of a different variety of the normal onion; another possibility might be that this and the subsequent "new " just mean that they are freshly picked]




Even after you peel the skin, they're pure white~~











Non-san...............





took this shintamanegi.........












and sliced it up~~~





The finished product~~





TA-DA!











came out beautifully~~






I soak them in water to get rid of some of the sharpness of the taste






Then next~~










Shinjaga-san
[note: this time, it's "new potatoes"]





I sauté some ground meat, put in some...




Soy sauce


Saké


Mirin (a sweet, cooking saké)


Sugar


Dashi soup stock




and let it simmer thoroughly...............










Then add the potatoes.........









and simmer some more~~~











And~ the next spring vegetable is~~...










Shingoubou-san
[note: "new burdock root"]






.........which I take and~










slice it into thiiiiin strips~~~





And,




I also cut the carrots into thin strips~~~





And, and, I make my special sauce of










Mayonnaise


Soy sauce


Sugar


Surigoma (crushed sesame)





and toss the veggies with it


(The gobou & carrots are boiled)






And, I don't know if it's got anything to do with spring or not, but...






This little guy










Giant squid-san





They were on sale at the supermarket today, for






wha, wha, wha, what?!






two of them for..................






only 300 yen~






They're over 30cm [~12inches] long!










This squid-san




And I take this squid-san and put him in my sauce of.........









Soy sauce


Saké


Ginger


Garlic





and let it sit...until the flavor really soaks in







So, the prep for tonight's dinner is complete~~






As for what I'm making............






I'll post about it later~~






So stay tuned~~~~