It is the Yuzu(citron) picking and make Ponzu sauce.
There is a small orchard in the their house's back yard, they plants some trees its Yuzu,Kabosu(type of citrus fruit) and Kumquat etc.
They don't spray the fruit trees and fertilize land but these trees bear well.
also they don't trim trees, so my husband do it and picking fruits every year.
It is not a true orchard and the trees are not prepared low, it is really to take the fruit attached to the upper one.
It cuts with scissors with a long handle.
This is Yuzu↑↑
The Yuzu is too sour to eat.
Yuzu's skin is thick and very nice smell, so people use it for cooking or float in the bath.
Each citrus of the various kinds which be taken in this yard can use "juice" as a seasoning.
It was my work which a branch and a leaf are taken and removed and is carried out only to a fruit.
That day, my husband asked me ''help for picking these citrus'' but I said ''No'' because I was wearing a nice coat and boots!!
We picked about 1,000 citruses in a day, there were only four trees, it has grown in large numbers really.
It extracted all together and made it only fruit juice.↑↑
We don't have a special juicer,so it was very hard work that.
Therefore, when everybody gathers in a parents' house do that together.
All citrus fruits mixed then made 10 liters.
It blended soy sauce,vinegar and mirin(sweet Sake) to this citrus juice, it's homemade Ponzu!!
A retention period becomes long by seasonings, such as soy sauce, being added, and quantity also increases.
Even if it divides and brings back to each home, the Ponzu for one year.
Then, the completed Ponzu is a seasoning indispensable to one-pot dishes.
I love this Ponzu,so I use it not only Japanese foods. mix with olive oil then make carpaccio and add to Chinese chili oil then make dipper for Gyoza.
I hard that some traditional Japanese restaurants uses their homemade Pozu which has been aged 1 year.
Japanese people like Ponzu as well as soy sauce.
This is a sea cucumber.↓↓ I ate after a long time.
Although a sea cucumber is a strange living thing which lives in the sea of a shoal, we often eats in Hiroshima the sea cucumber which was able to be taken in Setonaikai.
After moved to Hamamatsu city in Shizuoka prefecture, I couldn't have it.
This time, I had very delicious foods in Hiroshima!!
soooo delicious sea foods and mountain vegetables!!!!
