Happy New Year - 2012!


Wishing you all a very happy Dragon Year, 2012!

Iwaizakana: New Year's special foods
top left: kazunoko-prepared herring roes
top right: gomame-roasted tiny dried anchovies
centar: subasu-sweet marinated lotus roots
bottom left: kuromame-sweet simmered black soybeans  
bottom right: gobou-sesame dressed burdock roots


from the left: ebiimo, burdockroot, kintoki carrot, gomame, yuzu, kuwai, yamanoimo and renkon/lotus root