Tay-magoyaki
Difficulty: 1/5 (even I managed)
Taste: 4/5
So I'm home alone, and as I mentioned in my last post, willing to try cooking something. I pretty much never cook and Tay's Tuna Pasta recipe seemed a bit too complicated for a complete amateur, so I decided to try the Tamagoyaki which seemed simpler.
I had to go through 3 grocery stores before I managed to find mirin. I would have done this yesterday if one of the 2 stores I checked yesterday had it.
The hardest part was the first one - getting the eggs in the bowl without getting any of the shell in. I took my sweet time, and after 3-ish minutes I had all 4 eggs completely shell-free.
Thankfully I'm not completely incompetent, so adding the rest of the ingredients and mixing it all up wasn't too much of a problem.
The extent of my interaction with the stove was, up until today, watching other people use it, but thankfully finding the right dial and turning it a bit wasn't too complicated.
The first 3 times I tried to roll it up I only ended up sweeping the Tamagoyaki to the side of the pan, and only on my last try did I realize that I should probably roll the side that already has some rolled up, rather than going from the thin side each time.
Take it off the pan, cut it up, arrange it nicely, and voila!
いただきます~
This made for a nice light dinner. I don't know what Tamagoyaki is supposed to taste like, but this tasted like a sweet, airy omelette.
I might do this again tomorrow, maybe use a bit more mirin just to see what it'll taste like.