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Dec 30, 2023

What's in your toshikoshi soba?

What do you put in your toshikoshi soba? One year I sauteed some chicken and naganegi to start a broth augmented with tsuyu, cooked the soba separately, and served the broth with kamaboko slices.

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TonetoEdo

TonetoEdo

Living between the Tone and Edo Rivers in Higashi Katsushika area of Chiba Prefecture.

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  • helloalissa

    helloalissa

    on Dec 30

    Kamaboko sounds like a good idea! I forgot to get some spinach, but that fits well with yuzu neri. This year the plan is yuzu neri, negi, kankoku nori, and now, kamaboko. We use standard bottled mentsuyu. I did consider shrimp tempura but don't want to shop on the 31st or cook it.

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  • genkidesu

    genkidesu

    on Dec 31

    My husband likes kamaboko in his, but I'm not a huge kamaboko fan. I prefer vegetable tempura in mine!

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  • TonetoEdo

    TonetoEdo

    on Dec 31

    @genkidesu Vegetable tempura is a good bet. When I was at the supermarket today, every tempura set had some permutation of shrimp which my guy is allergic to.

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  • TonetoEdo

    TonetoEdo

    on Dec 31

    @helloalissa I'm also making mine with prepared hontsuyu. Yuzu neri is now on my menu!

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  • JapanRamen

    JapanRamen

    on Jan 15

    Instead of soba, I made a cup noodle "chuuka soba" and also cooked some "yakisoba", then put a shrimp tempura on top of each and called it a night. Those are still "soba", right?

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  • genkidesu

    genkidesu

    on Dec 2

    What other New Year's Eve/Day dishes is everyone fond of? One of my favorites is kuri kinton, which is also one of the first NY foods I learned to make. The combo of sweet potato and chestnut is the best, I think, and the good fortune meaning behind it doesn't hurt!

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  • TonetoEdo

    TonetoEdo

    on Dec 2

    @genkidesu Ozouni! Toasted mochi in dashi and kombu broth with greens, shiitake, carrots, chicken, naruto. The YouTube channel JapaneseCooking101 has an easy recipe.

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  • genkidesu

    genkidesu

    on Dec 3

    @TonetoEdo I love cooking video channels, I hadn't seen this one before I don't think! It looks like they've had a YouTube presence for quite some time though. Going to go down a rabbit hole now and watch some of them to get inspired!

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