Karaage...Japanese Fried Chicken

Japan has a lot of different dishes that are unique to the country. Karaage, Japanese-style fried chicken, is one of them.

I asked the kids that I teach what their favorite food was, most of them said karaage, followed by ramen!

David makes really good karaage.

He uses breast chicken; most recipes use thigh meat. 

Thigh meat has a stronger taste but is twice as expensive as breast meat and is difficult to cut.

He cuts the meat into bite-sized pieces and marinates it in soy sauce, sake, dried coriander, and garlic. He leaves it to marinate overnight. The next day he dredges it in potato startch and fries it.

I love this, but it doesn't love me!

We had it for lunch today, but after two pieces, I have to stop as I know I'll get indigestion.

There's some leftover for tonight's dinner, but I won't be risking it.

Today has been a bit strange.

I woke up feeling overtired. I think my two days of teaching are getting to me!

All morning, I had an intense headache. 

After lunch, I went to close my eyes when I heard thunder rumbling around.  Checked my phone and found that there was a tornado advisory for this area!  I sent a message to Christopher about the tornado advisory, he thought I had misspelled tomatoe!!!

The sky was rather dramatic.

Just as the storm was starting

I woke up an hour later, still feeling rather bad. The storm had passed over, but my head was still pounding. Decided that I should go out for a bit, so I asked Mikey to run me to the supermarket. 

The sky was even more dramatic this evening.

Dark clouds rolling in

The opposite direction was even more interesting.

Clouds rolling off the mountains

Going to cook the karaage, I can enjoy the smell!!