Autumn taste with mushrooms♪

(posted; Japanese meal page)     

    I'd like to introduce you one of Autumn taste I cooked the other day. 

                            mushroom-rice (キノコ御飯 kinoko-gohan) 

It is a kind of flavored rice with soy source, sake, sugar and soup stock.  I put all the mushrooms you can see below which we can find in Japan. Added some shrimp. 

The store wasn't so crowded, so I took photos of them with mobile phone.  There were some pine-mushrooms from a foreign country.  They are a little expensive, especially the ones from our own country. There will be another chance to show them p;)

I wonder if you have many kinds of mushrooms as much as we do. I never run out of them especially the one in top center (various usages for it).

    Anyways, enjoyed the autumn flavor♡♡♡ 

Eventful Weekend and Matsutake-mushroom ♪

Last Saturday,  we attended my hubby's cousin's 49th day memorial service. On that day we place dear departed's ashes in a tomb and burial service. We drove about 2 hours to the place.  My hubby's cousins who live in Osaka came and stayed the Japanese style hotel witth beautiful garden for the night. My husband and I took them to there and spend some time togather chatting.

 the garden of the hotel

On Sunday, they came to our house looking forward to eating my hubby's Soba-noodle. We were glad they enjoyed the noodle.

And the picture one of my hubby's cousin painted and was given to him recently is on the wall of his hobby room. She looked pretty glad to see her work proudly decorated there.  Haha, hubby was asked to play saxophone as well.

And then, in the evening, we had a call from hubby's ex-colleague saying that her mother really appreciated the Soba he made and have something to give us.
Wow, to our joy, we were given "matsutake mushroom".  Well, pine-mushrooms grow under the red pine-tree and really costly to buy.  In Japan, we enjoy the enchanting  aroma as well as the taste. The appetizing delicacy was SO delicious even though just a small amount. 

It was neatly packed with the other seasnal leaves and a citrus

I grilled it and had it with vinegar with citrus juice

PS> I really AM sorry that I haven't commented friends' posts yet and posted mine,  I'll catch up later this evening or rather yesterday!

Have a good Sunday or new week (to my Australian friends)