Tuesday, March 04, 2014

girl's day

We celebrated Girl's Day on Sunday.

I made a chirashizushi of sorts and bought this platter of sashimi to put onto the sushi...

4 slices each of maguro (tuna), hamachi (amberjack), shrimp, ika (squid), salmon, kani-kamaboko (fake crab) and a scoopful of ikura (salmon roe)

Can you believe it was only 980 yen?! (It looks a bit messed up because I had to put it into my backpack...)

I made some sushi rice (add 1 tablespoon of vinegar, 1 tablespoon sugar and a pinch of salt to one cup of cooked rice) and added some diced cucumber and kinshi tamago (thinly sliced omlette)

For each serving, I cut up two slices each of the different fish, layering it between rice, cucumber & the egg...chirashizushi in a cup!

When eating, I drizzled 1 teaspoon of shoyu over the top...looks fancy yet simple to make!

Since Satoshi had to work, he brought home this dessert by Impression Gateau Sucre, it was a rich chocolate cake topped with whipped cream and these chocolate shavings that looked like driftwood.

Thanks Satoshi! If you celebrated, I hope you had a nice Girl's Day!

6 comments:

Kozue said...

There are some cheap sushi today. I sometimes buy them at a local supermarket. It's impressive that they taste good.

My girls' day? My post is about the dolls.
http://website-mk.blogspot.com/2014/03/hina-matsuri-dolls-japanese-girls.html
And...the meat market crews in the supermarket were shouting, "It's girls' festival!" so we had grilled beef... It was beautiful!

Anonymous said...

Glad you had a nice girls day and that beautiful dessert! Satoshi always finds the best stuff.

K and S said...

glad you had a nice day, Kozue!

he does Rowena :) I think MotH, does a pretty good job for you guys too!

Take care you two.
Kat

KirkK said...

Years ago the Missus asked me what Girl's Day was about. I told Her that "it's the day when girls buy boys anything they want!" Sadly, I didn't have the guts to actually follow thru with the joke and told Her I was kidding....

K said...

Sushi and chocolate - looks like a great Girls' Day!

K and S said...

aw you could've bought her lots of brand name items Kirk :)

it was K!

Take care you two!
Kat