Celebrating the new year 2019 with a healthy dish to keep fit through the year

Happy holiday season, everyone!Your friendly neighborhood community manager dropping a line to say hi and to ask you to share your holiday recipes with us!I love our big December dinner because we get to change it up from the more traditional Thanksgiving meal, and we always do something different! I'm thinking this year, I might do a rich oxtail stew, or maybe a pernil (pork roast), or maybe just go all seafood. Haven't decided yet, but I'm getting hungry just thinking about it.At any rate, I hope you'll share your favorite holiday recipes with our community so we'll all have lots of delicious ideas to work with.Looking forward to seeing what you've got cooking this holiday season! :)Just a reminder of our guidelines if you're not familiar:https://cookpad.wasmer.app/us/community

Start the new year off right

Shrimp symbolize long life. They are an absolute necessity for Osechi, the New Year's meal.Make sure to cook the sake and mirin first so that the alcohol can cook off. Marinate the shrimp with the cooled simmered liquid. Straining the liquid creates a beautiful end result. For 5 servings. Recipe by Cooking S Papa

My grandson's birthday is on New Years Eve so we celebrate at home and do the cake thing with a special dinner! Everyone wanted shrimp so.....😋 Happy New Year everyone!! 🎉2024💋

Every now and then, I crave Japanese-style stewed dishes. Lots of carrots also replenish the body with vitality. To make dashi soup stock, also refer to.Simmer the koya-dofu in the pot only after the soup stock is well seasoned. Cutting the carrots into ume plum blossom shapes will give a nice touch for a New Year's meal. For 4 servings. Recipe by Hakuundou

It New Years eve I ain't cooking tomorrow, I am doing my best to make WORLD CLASS CHILI.So let me know how I did

It'll be moon-viewing time (tsukimi) soon. I didn't want to just make boring old dango (rice dumplings), so I made these roly-poly cute little bunny buns. They're easier than you think.Stretch out the dough so that it's the same thickness all over. If you're new at this, preparing 20% more dough than usual will make it easier.The sweet bean paste is easier to wrap up when it's hardened. If it's too soft, evaporate some of the water in the microwave.These should be stored at room temperature and eaten the same day they're made. Recipe by Choco makaron

This has been my favourite staple dish for years. Since it will last for a long time, it's good for osechi (New Year's Food). It's also great to have it on hand.Shaking the pot to flip and move the ingredients around instead of stirring with chopsticks while simmering will prevent them from falling apart. It will taste better after the next day because the ingredients will have absorbed the seasoning flavours. Recipe by Raby

You can make plump and tasty kuromame by cooking for 20 minutes in the pressure cooker and then for 1 hour with residual heat!Make sure to skim off any scum at Step 4. Recipe by Cooking S Papa

We like to expose our son to different cultures and traditions. In reading his books on Chinese New Year, we learned that noodles are a blessing for longevity.I decided to take my Peanut Sauce recipe and combine it with my Asian Inspired Marinade for my homage to Chinese New Year.I believe that the best way to understand another culture is through food. When you understand the history behind a dish, then you should understand the culture.Enjoy!

Happy weekend, kitchen friends!It's time for our QOTW (Question of the Week) where we'll be talking about ingredients, methods, and sometimes just plain fun food stuff.This pic is from that one time I made Valentine's Day Toad in the Hole with Seared Foie Gras for breakfast. :)Since we're mostly homebody types who like quieter meals with low commotion, we tend to stay in on Valentine's Day because restaurants are usually slammed. So I'm starting to think about our menu in for Thursday night.Sometimes I like to make some kind of pasta with a really rich, developed meat sauce, like oxtail prepared osso buco style. Sometimes a seafood feast hits the spot - oysters, shrimp cocktail, steamed Dungeness. Can't ever go wrong with a steak dinner for the hubs. Still chewing on it...Right now I'm leaning towards seafood. :)))So this week's question: Whether it's cooking in, dining out, or even doing the usual because you're just not keen on Valentine's Day, WHAT ARE YOUR VALENTINE'S FOOD PLANS?Looking forward to your answers!~ YFNCM :)