This year, I spent my New Year’s Eve over at the Papa and Mama W’s house. It’s where baby Ume was as well. They made a lot of food for not that many people. Adamu was invited as well.
Before we even went there, I had to prepare the osechi to eat on New Year’s Day. I prepared burdock root, lotus root (frozen), satoimo (frozen), dried shiitake, atsuage (which I found is called tofu cutlet in English), konnyaku, snow peas, and carrots. Adam watched me stumble around the kitchen. He really couldn’t help me as the instructions were in Japanese. I got it out from Kyou-no-Ryouri magazine.
I finished cooking at around 9:30 PM.
Mama and Papa W are always nice. Since I drove, I didn’t want to drink too much. Since Adamu drove from L.A., he didn’t drink much either. Since my mom was looking over baby, she didn’t drink much either as well. There was a lot of food to eat, too. Deep fried wontons, latkas, shrimps, crab and cheese stuffed mushrooms. At my mom’s suggestion, I brought cake from Italian Tomato, green tea tiramisu. I don’t think it had any mascapone cheese. I left them some sake for New Year’s Day.
Franklin was there and I had to make fun of his constant attention to his new smart phone. We also took turns playing Angry Birds on it. Heheh.
One thing I was surprised about was Dick Clark being on television. I had forgotten that he suffered a stroke. It sounded like he had a tough time speaking, but it was cool (and creepy) that he still wanted to host.
I think we left around 2 AM. Adamu left immediately after we got back to my place.
I didn’t go to sleep until 4 AM.
I woke up at 8:30 AM to begin cooking ozouni. I finished around 10:30. It came out good. We also ate the osechi I made the night before. My dad thought it was too light, but he likes his food salty. We also busted out the sake, too. Happy new year! Kanpai!
