| Tonight was one of those not too common, but more increasingly frequent nights when I cook my family dinner. I think my growing love of cooking is a natural progression from my love of eating. It's also preparation for a somewhat domestic life, I expect to have later on in life. I get starry-eyed thinking about all the feasts I can cook up for my kids. Tonight's dinner was predominantely Japanese. The main consisted of fish, prawn and cucumber tempura on rice with miso soup.  The raw ingredients - cucumber, pre-cooked prawn, tempura mix and red cod. I didn't take a picture of the miso soup but that came from little individual packages of miso soup paste.
 Tempura batter - Very simple to make - just add water and mix.
 Chopped seafood - Don't it just look so tasty. I love prawn. They're so cute. Like little puppies of the sea.
Cooking the tempura was quite dangerous. That hot oil sure does like to spit at ya. Ma kindly served as my assistant. I needed a bit of hand flipping the tempura and trying not to burn myself. The batter didn't really stick to the prawn very well. Maybe because I forgot to de-shell them. Oops. They were quite crunchy. lol. But I did remember to pull the heads off so that's something. I felt quite brutal ripping heads off my little puppies of the sea but it had to be done. Who wants to eat those little black eyeballs? I'm sure digestion will be hard enough eating their shells.  Bon apetit! My delicious meal complete. That's satay and sweet and sour sauce at the top. Not very Japanese but it's what I felt like dipping my tempura in. The cucumber is serving as a makeshift divider between the two.
Despite the hot oil trying to give me a facial and forgetting to de-shell the prawn, I rate this dinner pretty well. All agreed it was tasty. Labels: home-cooking, Japanese |
