I started my day quite late this morning, with a coffee gelatin topped with a bit of cream.


Actually, when I mixed it up, it was too much cream. But it was still delicious!!
Anyway, dinner tonight. We had a workshop at school, so I needed to make something quickly. I made chicken simmered with vegetables--my delicious standby that cleans out the fridge. Today's version had chicken, carrots, peppers, oyster mushrooms, shiitake, gobo, konnyaku, and lotus root. I also made a naga-imo dish with ume-boshi (pickled plums) and edamame (soy beans). We had our daikon chrysanthemums, garlic miso pickles, miso soup, and rice. We also had some cheese and a half bottle of red wine leftover from the workshop.
The main dish. It's a perfect food, honestly. I love it.
The daikon chrysanthemums. You can kind of see them here!
The naga-imo, ume-boshi and edamame side dish. It was nice; the sour ume-boshi really went well with the sticky nagaimo. It was also great fun to make, insofar as I stuck the nagaimo in a cloth and beat it with my pestle.
Oh, and Osaka-style hakusai. I accidentally ate one of the red peppers. It was awful.