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Dec 12, 2010

Grill, baby, grill!!

As the Christmas or year-end are upcoming, we might have some opportunities to hold parties where we can enjoying eating, drinking and talking with your family members, friends, colleagues.
In Japan we customarily hold what we call "the forget-the past year-party" at this season. The party is held literally to forget whatever unpleasant things, bad lucks and difficulties happens in the year.

Today my family held the party at my favorite Yakiniku ( grilled beef in the Korean style ) restaurant near my house.


Sliced strips of beef are served on our table with the special sauce.






At first, we enjoyed slice row cow liver as an appetizer with dipping them with salt and sesame oil. That is a favorite menu of my family.



We grilled the beef on a heated iron net, which is the Korean style.
"Grill, baby, grill!


Another source of our stamina is sliced garlics boiled in sesame oil.



We should not forget eating vegetables when we eat beef for balance of nutrition. That is "Kimuchi" or cabbages which are picked in hot chili based source.


-- from iPad

3 comments:

Mark Willis said...

Yeah! We love "Korean barbecue" too, though I would not be able to eat the raw liver! We have an electric table-top grill that we use for this purpose, although we also cook European-style dishes on it - such as grilled Halloumi cheese, and polenta, tomatoes, spring onions etc.

takaeko said...

>Mark
Grilling vegetables and meets on a cooking plate can be seen in the world! And it's very interesting to know what you grill and eat. Fresh raw liver is very nutritious and delicious! And grilled some cow organs are very popular in Japan.
You grill cheese on a plate? It's gonna melting isn't it?

Mark Willis said...

Hi Takaeko; You can certainly grill some types of cheese. Halloumi (from Cyprus) is especially good for this. It goes soft and slightly charred on the outside, but stays firm in the middle. Also you should find out about the French / Swiss way of eating Raclette (Google it!)