{"id":4505,"date":"2020-01-06T02:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/?p=4505"},"modified":"2024-08-29T14:11:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T21:11:19","slug":"happy-new-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zojirushi.com\/blog\/happy-new-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New 2020!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This year my resolution is to slow down<\/em> and enjoy life more\u2014by paying attention to what\u2019s going on around me. Modern technology makes all of us go too fast, don\u2019t you think?<\/p>\n

At our house, we do sukiyaki<\/em> whenever we have a special occasion, but especially for New Year\u2019s Eve. Pretty soon our son will be leaving for his first real job in Washington D.C., starting a career with the government. Since our daughter is also home right now, on winter break from university, we decided to break out the sukiyaki hot pot to celebrate the holidays. Eating together as a family at home isn\u2019t as regular as it used to be. As the kids got older, my wife would cook, but everyone would grab a plate and retreat to their part of the house to eat while doing whatever we wanted to do. In fact, our best family conversations happened while we were at a restaurant together. That\u2019s OK I guess, but not quite the same.<\/p>\n

Sukiyaki<\/em> changes all that. It takes a while to prep\u2014veggies have to be cut, tofu has to be sliced and the meat laid out nicely. I can\u2019t take credit for this pretty arrangement; my wife has the skills.
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Once that\u2019s done, it\u2019s time to set the table. Tonight\u2019s ingredients are Chinese cabbage, Japanese long onion (naganegi)<\/em>, Chrysanthemum leaves (shungiku)<\/em><\/span><\/a>, 3 kinds of mushrooms, yam noodles (shirataki)<\/em>, tofu and rib eye beef!
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\nWe used the Zojirushi Gourmet d\u2019Expert\u00ae<\/em> Electric Skillet<\/a><\/span> for the job, which made it super easy to cook. We were most impressed with the fact that the outer body doesn\u2019t get hot, which means you can surround it with ingredients on the dining table without worrying about the heat getting to them\u2014important when you don\u2019t want raw meat or sashimi<\/em> to get too warm.
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\nThere are tons of sukiyaki<\/em> recipes<\/span><\/a> online, so look one up and try\u2014it\u2019s not hard to cook. Plus you can use store bought sauce from the store, which is what we always do.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the live action\u2014LOL!<\/p>\n