Tonight's meal: hiraki-aji, or an open aji (mackerel). Lightly salted and grilled. I also served it with ao-nori salt, or green seaweed and salt, which is on the small round plates. Rice, miso, and garlic pickles, of course. Other than that, I just made my usual simmered dish--this time with bamboo root, renkon (lotus root), carrots, taro potatoes, shiitake and kikurage mushrooms, and snow peas. Oh, and some cucumbers in miso dressing.




A close-up of the fish:




And a close-up of the soup and the simmered vegetable dish. The miso soup today had tofu, enoki mushrooms, and mitsuba, which is quite similar to watercress. It was delicious. We'll have both of these again tomorrow, as I made quite a bit. I think the simmered vegetable is my current favorite dish.