We happened to have ikebana and tea ceremony on Feb. 14 so there were even more sweets than usual - and lots more chocolate. All day.
In Japan the tradition for Valentine's Day is for girls to give boys chocolates to let them know they 'like' them. But lately many girls also make chocolates or cookies, etc. for their friends. It's also a big thing on tv, very funny. There is also something called 'giri choco' 'obligatory chocolates', so on tv comedies/dramas men who wouldn't have normally gotten anything were so happy to get even giri choco. On March 14 there is 'White Day' where the boys are supposed to give the girls candy.
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| special sugar candy |
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| delicious sweet potato cakes |
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| rocky road and umeshu (plum wine)/raisen/coconut chocolates that I made |
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| yummy choco manju (back right) |
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peach branch, iris, nanohana (which you can also eat)
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I just got home from a delicious, full course Italian dinner at a restaurant I've been wanting to try. I am soooo full, but happy - I should be after all the wine....
proscuitto wrapped around a piece of sweet potato (or something), a small piece of yummy cheese quiche-like thing...and one more little morsel I can't remember...
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| the reason I can't remember what I ate |
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| spagetti with a slightly sweet tomato sauce, mushrooms and cheese |
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| pizza |
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| main course choices sirlion steak or |
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| sea bream |
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no idea what this was but it was good! some kind of panacotta or pudding, not chocolate, not coffee, some kind of liquor, chocolate cake/cookie like bottom....
A very fun night. |
appetizer - upper and lower pics, zuccinni with a tomato sauce, yummy shrimp with a slightly spicy coating, 
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