A Fukuokan's Notes from Sapporo

I tend to think practice makes perfect, or experience makes my life easier. In this way I am a positive ageist believing that years bring wisdom. Viva! being Oba-chan!!  

But there is one thing that I don’t think practice helps, or covers a lack of talent. How many times I tried, I have made no success in cooking dried beans.

Basically, Nimame cooking is divided into two processes: 1. reconstitute dried beans by soaking and boiling them; and 2. season the reconstituted beans. That’s all. Very simple. But I always fail in the process 1. The beans are supposed to be cooked tender but keep their shape. But in my pot, they always burst and lose their shape, becoming a potful of mushy water.

These ones are my most successful nimame for which I spent whole two day to cook.