Happy New Year!
Actually I had been sick for the past weeks, but I’m getting recovered slowly. Perhaps I got a cold when I went for a run to a mountain to see the first sunrise because it was literally freezing there.
Osechi is a set of Japanese traditional new year dishes in a special bento box. It used to be common, but due to the change in our diets, today few of Japanese people( mostly those in older generations ) prefer to eat it, let alone cook it by themselves.
Despite this trend of extinction, my family cook and eat osechi dishes every year, starting preps by scratch from a few days before the new year. That’s simply because we like this food tradition as well as the very moment to cook and eat together.
As brunch of the new year’s day, we eat bits and pieces of it in the all-you-can-eat style.
Each dish has its meaning such as good luck, health, success, and prosperity. It other words they wish the new year being filled with fortune. We
