Holidays and Some Signs of Spring

In Japan, (March) Vernal Equinox Day  is an official national holiday　So we have 3-days holidays from Sat.to Mon.

Apparently we can catch some signs which Winter has  passed a baton to Spring.
The stormy wind was blowing over night on Saturday.

 It was foggy and hazy around Yellow Sand  with wind afar from China to Japan. The photo bellow isnt clearly colours but as if we were in the yellow world

After hours through the strong wind,

we had clealy beatiful blue sky and much sunshine.

Look!! SAKURA is blooming!!

During days called ' higan 'the spirits of ancestors are recalled, Buddhist rites carried out and family graves visited too.

So our family gathered together in memory of my mother.

I made  chirashi Sushi.  chirashi sushi is for cooking at home.

Maybe some of you want to know the recipe? :)

Directions:

Cook rice rather hard

3 cups rice and 3cups water

[ sushi vinegar]

60cc of vinegar

 2tsp of  sake

3tsp of  sugar

a bit of salt

toss the vinegar sauce

mingle together,  but remember! do not knead-this is the important tip-just need to train :)

you mingle as cutting with rice paddle

add to something what you want -vegetables or seafood

we like to put into carrots ,mushroom, tofu. Chirashi sushi is the mother taste of each family or each region.  anything OK I guess. Perhaps grapefruit some sour ingredients

and then 3eggs

be carefully and thinly

here it is

Isnt it even gourgeous?

you might image like as a rice salad

Today we get sunshine too!! Spring has come at last!!

Have a wonderful spring week!!

Mami :-)