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Okay, I lied a little… this nabemono (Japanese hot pot) was made on Girl’s Day (Hina-matsuri), but that’s really the only thing about it that makes it a “Girl’s Day nabemono”. It was still very delicious!

I used chicken thighs, maitake (hen-of-the-woods mushroom), egg dumplings, pollack dumplings, taro, konnyaku (devil’s tongue jelly), gobo (burdock root), negi (Welsh onion) and hakusai (Napa cabbage). For the broth, I used 3/4c mirin, 3/4c of shoyu and an unmeasured amount of sake

This made a ton of food and only took about 45 minutes from start to finish. いただきます！

Nintendo is advertising Super Monkey Ball for the Wii, on my fruit. Is this honestly a lucrative marketing angle?  Two out of three stickers on my bunch of bananas say yes!

Click on bananas for a close-up, I double-dog dare you.

Also, here is a link to the Chiquita website… apparently there is a contest.

What a fascinating world we live in. What can be more cyberpunk then a corporate marketing tie-in with fruit?

I made this with elements of red (carrots and my homemade aka miso) and white (taro and shiro miso) in observence of the traditional colors of the Japanese New Year 正月 (shogatsu) . I didn’t actually make any traditional Japanese Near Year foods (お節料理), but I may still – I have some burdock for gobo kinpira :3 .  Anyways, click on the image to make it a little bigger (and check out my dirty stove – oh yes! ).

It really tastes like corn.