Japan

We’re going to Japan!

 

 

First, it’s time to take a little sip of Umeshu.  It’s liqueur made with unripen plums. Even those who don’t typically like alcohol would enjoy this.  We drank ours out of a sake set.  Traditional? Probably not.  Cute?  No doubt.

 

We also made some edamame to snack on before we got to the hard work.  It’s totally foolproof… Take soy beans, throw them in boiling water, take out, and salt.

 

Annnnd some sesame crusted tuna.

 

Now for the main event! Sushi!  If you haven’t figured this out yet, we’ll let you in on a little secret.  Neither of us really know what we’re doing…Ever.  We’ve never made sushi before, but we’ve eaten it a lot.  And those sushi chefs make it look so easy!  They take the seaweed, rice, and all the other deliciousness and roll it up, right?

 

And if you’re like us, you can put the ugly seam face down too.

 

We had unagi (eel with sauce on rice balls), spicy kani maki (spicy crab), ebi tempura maki (shrimp tempura), and spicy tuna with mango maki.

 

 

And some of that fruit on the bottom of the bottle for dessert.

 

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