Sukiyaki

Tonight's dinner was sukiyaki, a hot pot like dish where the ingredients are simmered in a broth of mirin, sake, soy sauce, and sugar. We used pretty standard sukiyaki ingredients: thinly sliced beef, tofu, napa cabbage, shiitake mushrooms, onions, and shirataki (yam noodles). I stuffed the pot so full of ingredients that we ended up having enough food for at least four people! A very hearty and comforting meal. I was telling H that in Japan, there is a (probably outdated) association that you eat sukiyaki on pay day, because that's when you have enough money to buy good quality meat for sukiyaki. After that H kept mentioning how happy he was to have gotten paid that day. =)