Preparing for New Year's
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Nope, seems like it would make more sense to wash your clothes after you mess them up eating all that good stuff.
We actually use napkins and silverware.quote:
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Nope, seems like it would make more sense to wash your clothes after you mess them up eating all that good stuff.
Great clamity may befall you if you wash at Christmas or New Years.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition provides a nice definition and history of the word:
You. Used in addressing two or more people or referring to two or more people, one of whom is addressed.
Regional Note: The single most famous feature of Southern United States dialects is the pronoun y’all, sometimes heard in its variant you-all. You-all functions with perfect grammatical regularity as a second person plural pronoun, taking its own possessive you-all’s (or less frequently, your-all’s, where both parts of the word are inflected for possession): You-all’s voices sound alike. Southerners do not, as is sometimes believed, use you-all or y’all for both singular and plural you. A single person may only be addressed as you-all if the speaker implies in the reference other persons not present: Did you-all [you and others] have dinner yet? You and you-all preserve the singular/plural distinction that English used to have in thou and ye, the subject forms of singular and plural you, respectively (thee and you were the singular and plural object forms). The distinction between singular thou/thee and plural ye/you began to blur as early as the 13th century, when the plural form was often used for the singular in formal contexts or to indicate politeness, much as the French use tu for singular and familiar “you,” and vous for both plural and polite singular “you.” In English, the object form you gradually came to be used in subject position as well, so that the four forms thou, thee, ye, and you collapsed into one form, you. Thou and thee were quite rare in educated speech in the 16th century, and they disappeared completely from standard English in the 18th. However, the distinction between singular and plural you is just as useful as that between other singular and plural pronoun forms, such as I and we.
Works for me....good omens for the new year:
black-eye pea beans represent coins
collard greens present green paper money
That's what we do, with a curious mix in of a Japanese feast.
strangely the black and red Japanese beans are for good luck/prosperity as well.
Reminds me of an old poem about beans,beans for every meal!
No washy on New Years day, though.
black-eye pea beans represent coins
collard greens present green paper money
That's what we do, with a curious mix in of a Japanese feast.
strangely the black and red Japanese beans are for good luck/prosperity as well.
Reminds me of an old poem about beans,beans for every meal!
No washy on New Years day, though.
Makes sense to me, but we'll be having pork & sauerkraut up here in PA.
Hadn't heard of the "no cloths washing" before.
Hadn't heard of the "no cloths washing" before.
Rick, since my in-laws are from PA, and we live in southern Georgia, we have Pork and Saurkraut as well as Black Eyed Peas
a bowl of Udon noodles, mochi, and a cup of warm sake.
We always have the HUGE Japanese spread. You know I feel bad saying this, Mark but we should have invited you. I didn't think of it until now
You name it we have it...we made the required drive to Uwajimaya of Thurs - Fri. (saw the new tiger cubs too and ate at Todai downtown). Then Saturday cooked all day.
Secret confession - of all the world foods I eat and love - mochi soup makes me gag like a maggot. So I cheat that one a bit by eating the bean filled mochi - somehow it's not so...slimy/chewy.
You name it we have it...we made the required drive to Uwajimaya of Thurs - Fri. (saw the new tiger cubs too and ate at Todai downtown). Then Saturday cooked all day.
Secret confession - of all the world foods I eat and love - mochi soup makes me gag like a maggot. So I cheat that one a bit by eating the bean filled mochi - somehow it's not so...slimy/chewy.
Cool you should have come over to Kirkland.
IU'm afraid, my New Year's deal this year was light on the food and heavy on the sake, but I don't do that often.
We usually just use plain old mochi and put some soy sauce and Nori on it.
How did you like Todai?
I took Yoko there last year and she ate more than I've ever seen a human being put away at one time. She must have eaten 3 lbs off sushi alone, then she started on the other stuff.
IU'm afraid, my New Year's deal this year was light on the food and heavy on the sake, but I don't do that often.
We usually just use plain old mochi and put some soy sauce and Nori on it.
How did you like Todai?
I took Yoko there last year and she ate more than I've ever seen a human being put away at one time. She must have eaten 3 lbs off sushi alone, then she started on the other stuff.
Frankly - Todai wasn't good to us. But partially it was our timing. We went to the Pac. Science Center in the AM on Thursday until about 1:30, then took the monorail over....the sushi area wasn't updated that great, the hot food area sucked and the service was TERRIBLE. In fact I'm writing them an ebomb.
Next time you're down this way, try Blue C in Freemont for sushi, or Nara in Redmond for a Japanese meal. And for Korean BBQ that is great, mirak in Federal Way is good, as is Olympic in Bellevue...just bring lots of money.
I didn't like Todai so much myself.
I didn't like Todai so much myself.
We did Sushi for New years Eve too. My 5 1/2 yr old daughters nickname is 'sushi girl' and she just loves the Nori and 'Slimy Pink Fish' (Salmon) as she calls it. Kids have a lovely way with words IMO.
Most folks (even us) in the US don't let their under 10 kids eat the rawest fish. Just a thought.
There is plenty of sushi that isn't raw. My kids love California rolls and most makisushi in general.
Little one (6.5) loves ebi, but she doesn't get ama ebi.
Where does your salmon come from?
Mark - we didn't hit the east side nor go sodo.
There is plenty of sushi that isn't raw. My kids love California rolls and most makisushi in general.
Little one (6.5) loves ebi, but she doesn't get ama ebi.
Where does your salmon come from?
Mark - we didn't hit the east side nor go sodo.
Ebi is good. Funny, the first things I learned as part of my hit and miss quest to learn Nihongo was to learn the names of different food.
My favorite sushi is hamachi, and on the other end of the spectrum, there's no way I'll ever eat uni again.
My favorite food has to be Yaki niku. Every Thursday was a tradition with us. We'd buy very thinly sliced beef,fresh carrots, onions, cabbage, whatever else we wanted, Yoko made a sauce featuring lots of garlic and sesame, and we'd sit around our little electric grill thingie and cook, dip and eat until we felt like beached whales.
Pabs, you didn't miss much by avoiding the east side. It's ...well, you know, it's the east side.
My favorite sushi is hamachi, and on the other end of the spectrum, there's no way I'll ever eat uni again.
My favorite food has to be Yaki niku. Every Thursday was a tradition with us. We'd buy very thinly sliced beef,fresh carrots, onions, cabbage, whatever else we wanted, Yoko made a sauce featuring lots of garlic and sesame, and we'd sit around our little electric grill thingie and cook, dip and eat until we felt like beached whales.
Pabs, you didn't miss much by avoiding the east side. It's ...well, you know, it's the east side.
I have to have the right gut mood to eat uni. They politely call it sea urchin roe, but sea urchin sexual organs might be a better name!
I have had hamachi literally on the boat right after reeling it in. So good, oh just so good there is no comparison. Maybe it would be called buri - but I'm not sure when a yellowtail reaches adulthood.
But what do I know? I like (bene) saba!
I have had hamachi literally on the boat right after reeling it in. So good, oh just so good there is no comparison. Maybe it would be called buri - but I'm not sure when a yellowtail reaches adulthood.
But what do I know? I like (bene) saba!
Ah, saba. We cooked it and ate it raw. Funny, Yoko loves it grilled, but is allergic to it raw. That made things difficult in Tokyo. We ran into a little attitude from the proprietress of a sushi restaurant near the US Embassy. We ordered the set sushi lunch, and she wouldn't substitute the saba with anything else. And apparently it touched some of the other items, because Yoko broke out in a rash and got sick.
Apparently the owner didn't like Yoko's Kansai accent, because she did allow another person( a man) to substitute.
Apparently the owner didn't like Yoko's Kansai accent, because she did allow another person( a man) to substitute.
Honestly MarkC, that type of thing and the pure blatant racism of the Japanese I just can't stomach.
My father-in-law had many, many great traits....I was a "good" white guy, but most weren't, and forget it if you were Black, Brown or much anything else. He, of course, was born in Hawaii and lived in a dirt floor hut the first part of his life - but both his parents were from Japan and he was going to make something of his life (and did).
Anyway, I loved discovering the Japanese celebrate the western new year. Then I can do the lunar Chinese new year as well!
My father-in-law had many, many great traits....I was a "good" white guy, but most weren't, and forget it if you were Black, Brown or much anything else. He, of course, was born in Hawaii and lived in a dirt floor hut the first part of his life - but both his parents were from Japan and he was going to make something of his life (and did).
Anyway, I loved discovering the Japanese celebrate the western new year. Then I can do the lunar Chinese new year as well!
That stuff gripes my booty too. I noticed a couple of times when people were nasty to her, either because of her accent, or because she was with me, a white guy.
On the whole, everybody in Japan was very nice to me, excpet for those few jacks.
On the whole, everybody in Japan was very nice to me, excpet for those few jacks.
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