{"id":1662,"date":"2012-04-25T17:20:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T21:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2013-05-24T14:37:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T18:37:36","slug":"theme-dinner-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/theme-dinner-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Theme Dinner-Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our turn for the theme dinner rolled around this Feb. and this year we chose Japan. Once a year, each couple chooses a theme, makes the main course and the others bring appetizers, first course, dessert, wine and this time Sake. <\/p>\n

We had a wonderful time researching menus, seeking places to purchase ingredients and trying out the preparations in order to have some idea what we were doing the night of the dinner.<\/p>\n

Setting the table and choosing dishes for all the various things served at once was a challenge and fun. My Mom has given me dishes that she had bought on Okinawa when we lived there in the early fifties. So, we took liberties with some of their purposes and added others, picked up some bamboo mats and tied our napkins with twine.<\/p>\n

\"Japan, <\/a><\/p>\n

Table setting for Japanese Theme Dinner-First Course<\/em><\/h5>\n

\"Japan, <\/a><\/p>\n

Table setting for Japanese Theme Dinner-Main Course <\/em><\/h5>\n

Using the book, Japanese Family-Style Recipes<\/em> by Hiroko Urakami, our main course was:<\/p>\n

\nWakame Seaweed Miso Soup (Wakame No Miso-Shiri)
\nYellowtail Teriyaki (Buri No Teriyaki\u2014we used Striped Bass)
\nSimmered Japanese Squash (Kabocha No Nimono)
\nBraised Daikon with two ground sesame seed sauces\u2014black and white. (Furofuki Daikon)
\nWhite Rice with a side of Tsukemono (Pickled Cabbage)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This was the last fun thing we\u2019ve done in a while as this was the night Bob\u2019s leg began acting up and that\u2019s been a very long story, but now he\u2019s on the mend and \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our turn for the theme dinner rolled around this Feb. and this year we chose Japan. Once a year, each couple chooses a theme, makes the main course and the others bring appetizers, first course, dessert, wine and this time Sake. We had a wonderful time researching menus, seeking places to purchase ingredients and trying… Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[238,239],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","tag-theme-dinner","tag-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2565,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions\/2565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}