週末は久しぶりに我が家に来客がありました。エリックの大学の関係者でアメリカの方です。出張中は外食が続くのではないかと思い、素朴すぎて申し訳ないけれど、水炊きでおもてなししました。お鍋を囲んで、日米文化の比較や世界の珍料理などについて話し、楽しいひとときを過ごしました。
写真：左より梅酒、しょうが焼酎、神戸の地酒です。今回はソーダ割りでしょうがの焼酎をお出ししました。
Having a guest
We had a guest at our place after a long absence. He was
here to visit Eric’s university from the States. I thought that he should have had
enough of restaurant food by now and decided to serve Mizutaki, which is pretty
informal home cooking. We all enjoyed the food as well as interesting
conversations about the cultural comparisons between Americans and Japanese,
unusual food around the world, etc. over the pot.
Mizutaki: a Japanese-style fondue. Vegetables, tofu, and chicken
and/or fish are cooked with broth in a pot on the table top and people help
themselves as the ingredients get cooked.
From the left in the picture: Plum liqueur, distilled spirit and local sake of Kobe. We served distilled spirit with ginger-flavour this
time.
