本日の英語： 「心ゆくまで～を楽しむ」
3連休の調子はどうでしたか？
筆者は久しぶりに3連チャンで友人と集い、
楽しかったです。
日中はまだ半袖ＴシャツＯＫですが、
日が暮れると途端に空気がひんやりしてくるこの季節。
それは鍋でしょう。
というわけで：
秋といえば茄子ですもんね。
スーパーで加茂ナスがめちゃめちゃおいしそうだったので、
加茂ナス鍋となりました。
具：
加茂ナス
牛ミンチ
薬味ねぎ
作り方：
加茂ナスを拍子木切りにし、上にミンチを乗せて
鍋に入れ、水少々・白だし・酒 を入れてフタをし、火にかける。
心ゆくまでナスの味を楽しむため、水気は少なく蒸し煮っぽく。
あとは煮つつ食べる。
汁が少ないのでナスの追加は難しいが、小松菜など
火が通りやすいものを追加しつつ食べるのもよし。
ミンチが入っているのであっさりしすぎず、
塩辛めにすればご飯もパクパク進みますです。
普通のナスでも十分おいしいと思うけど、
皮の柔らかい加茂ナスの水気少なくポクポクした感じが
濃い目のだしにとっても合いますのです。
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How was your 3-day weekend?
I had outings with my friends 3 days in a row,
which is kind of rare to me these days.
In this season you can still go only with a half-sleeved T-shirt during daytime,
but the air rapidly becomes very cool as soon as the Sun goes down.
That means you're ready to enjoy nabe for dinner!
Here you are:
Autumn is when eggplants becomes tastiest, right?
Kamo eggplant looked really good in the supermarket,
so; Eggplant Nabe.
Main ingredients:
Kamo eggplant
Minced beef
Negi shallot as an accent
How you cook it:
Chop the eggplant into about 2cm-thick sticks.
Top with beef and shallot (cut into pieces).
Add a little water, concentrated dashi soup, saki
and heat the pot to boil.
(In order to fully enjoy the taste of the eggplant, the whole
thing shouldn't be soaked in soup. More like steam them with soup.)
When it's done, eat while cooking.
Since there isn't enough soup, adding eggplant is not easily done.
But you can add greens like komatsuna.
Beef gives the soup a nice richness, and if you make it
slightly too salty, it goes very very well with rice.
Normal eggplant will do, but the relatively low-moisture and
soft-skinned kamo eggplant presents a nice balance
with the slightly rich and salty soup.
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