わたしはやきそばをつくります,からにほんをだいすきです.

Yakkisoba- wonderful mix of pan fried noodles, veggies, otafuku sauce and a few top secret ingreds to make the most delicious pasta EVER! It is my favorite japanese meal. Yakkisoba is mostly used at festivals and for parties (yet I love it). SO during another Japanese lesson- we subbed for some cooking lessons from Natsuko! (we have already made sushi, okonomiyaki, an green tea) so now for the pretty basic but delish dish! The first pic is the ingredients. (Great thing is I can actually read ALL OF IT) I have learned something i guess!) SO after reading this- we started..... welll

Then the bombshell hit- I had bought (by visual cues not based on Japanese characters- kinda like a person with out the sense of smell would look at a pink flower and say- well this is a mum but in all reality it is a peony (hence you could smell the difference) that is disguised as a mum) ---a little bunch of bean sprouts- yeah I can see what they are-- but then there was another package that were thinner- sprout looking yet my American brain said- Bigger Bigger! SO I did it- I took the bigger sprouts- and much to my dismay they were DIKON sprouts- not bean sprouts- dikon- is a big white veggie that tastes like a radish without the bite.. Anywho we had to pause at Natsuko went to pick up the MOYASHI... dag yo! 

So then (while the cameras were rolling- seriously) we whipped in a little of this- a little of that- and a splash of love and vuwala- YAKKISOBA! SUGOI! 

Here is my lessons buddy and just overall bud of buds- JOE wearing his fav YOSHI appron during our cooking lesson. (the YOSHI is my japanese dad). Great cooking JOE san!

This remids me of those mother daughter pictures that you get when you make cookies or a big Carebear cake.... Yeah I so love the Mauramatsu's they have taken me in and made me feel just like a daughter! So here is JMOM and Molly cooking!

Slurping the goodness~ So Japanese! OISH-kata! SO good! 

All turned out so great! Everyone was enjoying the huge batch of Yakkisoba we made and just had a wonderful time talking and fellowship-ing at the Jrents!

Remember: Careful what you wish for- you just might get it all- and some you don't want- As just listened to from Daughtry.... I wish for..... more soba!!!!

~MOlly