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Cheers to Year of the Dragon, 2012! Happy New Year Everyone! Year of the Dragon, 2012! My relatives and I celebrated Japanese New Years earlier this evening. We had a spread of various traditional Japanese New Years food including, shrimp, sushi, CA Roll, Poki Ahi tuna, Kuromame or Sweetened Black Soy beans, Kimpira Kobo - Burdock roots in fried in soy sauce, carrots cut into Cherry Blossoms, Taro potato balls, Shitake mushrooms, Lotus Roots, Sumono or vinegared cucumber with seaweed, Konbu or kelp tied with a brown edible string, Kurikinton or mashed yams with chestnuts, fruit salad, sake and Japanese tea. I also made a pineapple sherbert punch that foams up. All it is is 7-up and Sherbert. It's so easy to make and it looks like a fancy drink. We also had for dessert Mochi cakes (Hawaiian Japanese recipe), American sugar cookies, cookies with chocolate coating, jello with graham cracker bottom and cream cheese center. You are supposed to also have Ozoni soup with fish broth, vegetables, Mochi, and Soba (Right before the Buddhist temple bells ring in the New Years in Japan too). I always our get togethers with our extended family of relatives every New Years Day. We also have started a White Elephant Gift Exchange and game. So when we start playing the game is when we fill the room with laughter! I ended up with a nice Japanese nightlight with a red little lantern with cranes on it. So I scored! My first gift was just a purple candle, a washcloth and Bath pillow. So I gladly traded for something I really liked that was different. My church had their Mochitsuki already middle of December. So I had the chance to eat fresh mochi too. I usually dip it in soy sauce and sometimes sugar too. Chinese Lunar New Years will be Jan. 23, 2012. So go to your local Chinatown during that time to discover Lion Dances, Firecrackers and go eat some good Chinese dishes. Thank You for reading my blogs. I hope to hear from more of you out there for comments. Please speak out!   Sugi Dancer, Dating Coach |
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1/2/2012 7:17 am |
mmm sounds so very mouthwatering,my tummy is grumbling just reading this food,something romantic about food isn't there? Happy NY to u sugarlips!! so enchanting she delights the soul
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Everyone loves to eat! Japanese New Years Food is mainly symbolizes, for a Good harvest, when most Japanese were farmers. Like my grandparents on my mom's side and her relatives in Hiroshima. But in Hiroshima, and all the major cities of Japan, especially Tokyo people had to buy food on the Black market during and after WWII. Off course, my relatives were way far in the countryside, from the Epicenter where they dropped the Atomic Bomb. So they lived and had farms. My mom on the other hand was a kid interned in at Tule Lake Concentration Camps. She had to go move back to Hiroshima after WWII, following her parents. But they had too much kids. So she had to go to work as a waitress at age 14 and kicked out of the house. So she decided at age 16, to come back to the U.S. and stay with relatives in Eastern Oregon and then come up to Seattle, where she met my dad. All her brothers and sister who had American Citizenship came back here. Most guys I chat with don't have a clue where I'm from or about recent history of the U.S. during WWII. When I give them a little history lesson, and ask them to guess where I'm from, they get frustrated, and sometimes angry at me. I will play a Game with them, to test them to see if they have read my blogs or did their homework, but most don't. So I try to point out to them, go read my blogs. All the info is there, how I think. Sorry for getting righteous for a moment. I still like to wish everyone who come visit my Blogs a Happy New Year!  Sugi Dancer, Dating Coach
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1/3/2012 7:11 am |
Everyone loves to eat! Japanese New Years Food is mainly symbolizes, for a Good harvest, when most Japanese were farmers. Like my grandparents on my mom's side and her relatives in Hiroshima. But in Hiroshima, and all the major cities of Japan, especially Tokyo people had to buy food on the Black market during and after WWII. Off course, my relatives were way far in the countryside, from the Epicenter where they dropped the Atomic Bomb. So they lived and had farms. My mom on the other hand was a kid interned in at Tule Lake Concentration Camps. She had to go move back to Hiroshima after WWII, following her parents. But they had too much kids. So she had to go to work as a waitress at age 14 and kicked out of the house. So she decided at age 16, to come back to the U.S. and stay with relatives in Eastern Oregon and then come up to Seattle, where she met my dad. All her brothers and sister who had American Citizenship came back here. Most guys I chat with don't have a clue where I'm from or about recent history of the U.S. during WWII. When I give them a little history lesson, and ask them to guess where I'm from, they get frustrated, and sometimes angry at me. I will play a Game with them, to test them to see if they have read my blogs or did their homework, but most don't. So I try to point out to them, go read my blogs. All the info is there, how I think. Sorry for getting righteous for a moment. I still like to wish everyone who come visit my Blogs a Happy New Year! so enchanting she delights the soul
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Thank You Meiji Berry and Gangama for your nice comments! I wished I could do a dinner party for my Online friends. So it's a virtual party!  Sugi Dancer, Dating Coach
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1/5/2012 10:53 am |
Thank You Meiji Berry and Gangama for your nice comments! I wished I could do a dinner party for my Online friends. So it's a virtual party!  Sugar,it's you i would sincerely like to thank for your entertaining blogs,pictures and thoughts,it's an absolute pleasure reading them,and if i'm ever over your way sometime in the future ,i will be calling around to your place,expecting to taste the delights of a feast prepared by you......i'll even wash up the dishes afterwards Cheers to you!!!so enchanting she delights the soul
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Thank You Gangama, Meiji, Everyone for Reading my Blogs! I hope everyone has a great start of this year. For myself in my new career, in funeral sales, I'm getting a few bites, after going to smaller networking group. Sugi Dancer, Dating Coach
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 Forgot the Dragon on this Blog! Gang Hai Fat Choy! Sugi Dancer, Dating Coach
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Everyone, Please have some Tasty Chinese Food this Week for Chinese New Year! Sugi Dancer, Dating Coach
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Hi All Thank you again for reading my blogs. How did you Celebrate your Lunar New Year this year? Sugi Dancer, Dating Coach
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