Thursday, April 9, 2009

Spring News

It's been getting wamer and wamer these days.

Fukinoto

Spring vegetables and flowers are shooting up.
Fukinoto is one of the most popular spring vegetables in Japan.
It is a sort of
edible wild plants, which spontaneously appears on fields in spring.
We cook Fukinoto with Miso (soybean paste) or deep-fry and enjoy the spring taste!


Katakuri (left) / Koshinokobaimo (right)

Katakuri is a kind of wild flowers, well known as spring flower in Uonuma region. When snows gone, it comes out through dry grasses with pretty dawncast appearance.

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