Nabe Cooking

Recently, I was texted if I wanted to go to a Nabe party. Nabe, I hear you say, what's that? According to the SMS I recieved its a traditional Japanese dish cooked in a hot pot. Sure, sounds fun. Oh, BTW its at your house.

Ms S. had left her job to move back home for awhile before her trip to OZ so she had time to kill. She arrived at the appointed time carrying 4 large grocery bags of vegetables, meats and other things in bottles.

Her sister was due to arrive at my house soon, so I grabbed a knife and started chopping ; cabbage, onion, chicken, ginger, daikon (Japanese radish) and tofu.

Ms S's sister arrived as did Ms K. just as they pulled out the pot. What I had assumed to be a large earthen-ware ceramic dish was sleek, white and electric. Thats right, Im in Japan.

We 1/2 filled the Nabe thing with water (as a teacher, I feel compeled to use more decriptive words then thing, but its morning now and the caffine has yet to energise me). We placed the food in the Nabe thing ; we talked, we drank.

After a few mintues we pulled a selection from the pot and enjoyed a laugh.