back into the swing of it

It's been a week since my last post - seems longer. In the world of daily dinners, I guess it is a lot. We were away at PIL for NY, and I was gonna take photos of sechi ryori, but my camera battery was dead so didn't really get a good one. Not that I particularily got for the sechi ryori anyway (I think the only thing I ate were the sweet black beans). We indulged on expensive (PIL taste) steaks, tonkatsu, sashimi, ad several serves of noodles of various kinds. Since coming home on Sun night, we have eaten left overs and bits and pieces as I hadn't been shopping until this afternoon.

Mon night J made up a curry (although he wouldn't eat the leftover curry in the freezer the night before GRRRR) and last night we had tacos.

Tonight was nabe night. Our neighbour had said she had some 白菜 and other veges for us from her parent's in the inaka, but when she and her kids came over for a playdate today, they forgot to bring the veges....so we went out shopping and loaded up tonight. I used to be so taken with nabe, it always seemed so yummy, lots of veges...but recently the nabes have been a bit flat. I think it is the broth - have to find a good one. Or a recipe for a good broth. I feel like a soy milk nabe actually so maybe next time.

Made a lemon slice (like this, except a bit flatter this time - think I got excited and brought out the bigger dish, but the mix was not enough) and yoghurt steam cake （蒸しパン) in the breadmaker which turned out ok (not much taste really), but good for kids. And how easy!! Definately be making that again, esp when kids come over, and to take as snacks for K when we go out!