14 Years of Food History #27 Tonight's Dinner: 'Fried Cartilage'

Good evening🌕

Today, they made
fried chicken using some cartilage that came out of the freezer✨✨

It's crunchy, but
still has a bit of the meat's tenderness left in this fried cartilage🍗

The flavor of the yuzu kosho has soaked in thoroughly,
spreading throughout my mouth.
When you bite into it, it's crunchy and crispy,
and then the meat around it bursts with juice.

The crunchiness of the cartilage itself,
the crispiness recreated by frying,
these two different textures,
along with the accent of the yuzu kosho,
are a perfect match✨✨

This savory fried chicken with a hint of yuzu kosho
really makes the rice go down easy🍚

Classic fried chicken is great,
but sometimes it's nice to have something a little different.

Even though it's deep-fried,
it's light and easy to eat,
so I ended up eating too much, haha

And besides that, there was edamame, tomatoes, and bitter melon salad...

The lightly salted edamame was
perfect as a palate cleanser, and I kept reaching for
just one more.

Today's tomatoes still
had a bit of acidity left,
and they were a bit firm with a rich flavor.

The bitter melon salad was
made with canned mackerel and salted kelp.
The umami of the mackerel, the saltiness of the kelp,
and the bitterness of the bitter melon covering it all.

For a high schooler like me, it was still a very mature flavor,
but it went perfectly with the fried cartilage and
eating them alternately was irresistible.

Above all, tonight's dinner
had a great balance and everything went perfectly together.
It was a perfect dinner🍚

Today was a completely off day!
I slept until 9 in the morning, and when I woke up, I just
watched STARGLOW on YouTube,
giggling to myself,
and it turned into the laziest day ever.

I thought maybe I was being a bit too lazy,
but since I work part-time, study, and take lessons
diligently and seriously every day,
I'd like to think that
it's okay to have a day like this... haha

But I recharged quite a bit today,
so I'll do my best again starting tomorrow🔥

Thank you for reading
until the end🫶

Today I posted two articles, including one about Hyogo Prefecture,
thank you to those who read both🫶
For those who haven't read them yet,
I'd be happy if you could take a look✨

Good night💤