Tonight we had some leftovers to use. I made sauteed butter corn, because we had some corn leftover from a pizza I made for lunch (yes, we do the corn-on-pizza thing).
We had red fish (yes, that's what it was labeled. We think it was a snapper of some sort, but we can't be sure), marinated in sake lees and grilled. Then just the usual sides: nappa cabbage and plum pickles, peanuts and gobo in miso sauce, and the garlic pickles. I did, however, made some hijiki salad (in the white flower-shaped dishes, with gobo and carrots), and I tried a new kind of soup.

I had imagined it would be a bit thinner, but it actually ended up being quite an almost creamy soup. The flavor is delicate compared to the heartiness of the... it's almost a gruel, a very filling, thick soup. The name of it, translated from the Japanese, is something like Pureed Soybean Soup. I was a bit hesitant about it, but I had some soybeans we needed to use, and it actually was quite good. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn't this.


And just for fun, a picture of the mysterious red fish. You also get a shot of the peanut-gobo miso pickles, and a corner of the miso-pickled garlic, as well.

For dessert, I had half an orange that I really needed to use, and some pomegranate seeds that had been sitting in the fridge awhile as well. I thought they'd look pretty, and taste nice together, so I just put them in a glass dish. It was a nice way to finish the meal.