So, six hours later.

Thank you for reading yesterday's article
and for giving me so many "likes"...
I am both grateful and happy.

Because I wanted to eat simmered semi-dried daikon radish,
I was excited until dinner yesterday...

I looked at the bamboo colander I brought in
from the balcony just before the sun went down
and was surprised. It was unexpectedly limp.
It felt like it could fold up like origami.

About six hours after exposing the glossy daikon in the thumbnail photo to sunlight,
the moisture had been cruelly sapped away, leaving it dry and shriveled.
Is this the transition of skin from childhood to your 50s?
I had a flashback to my younger self
who stayed under the sun without any protection.
The image of "it's all wrinkled, this is what happens"
is just too blatant...

No, this is no time to be standing still.
The experiment is still in progress.
I put pork belly into a pot without oil,
and once it was sautéed, I added the shriveled daikon.
I stirred it thoroughly, then added dashi, mirin, soy sauce,
and sugar to season it, and simmered it for 5 minutes
until the liquid was gone, and it had a nice color!

It was the kind of dish that makes you gobble up white rice.
As soon as I thought, "I want to eat this!"
I made dinner like an experiment.
That was fun... I'll do it again.