Taste of Autumn

秋の味。
昨日の夜、九州から帰ってきました。
近所の町で新米を買って2kgほど貰ってきたので、今日はそれを炊いてみました。
いつものように電子レンジで炊いたものだけど、それでも十分。
まだ稲刈りをしている途中の、しかも地元でもその地区が特に美味しいと言われている、採れたてほやほやの新米。
炊いてぱらりと振りかけをかけるだけでご馳走です。
親戚の庭から、かぼすも貰ってきました。

I came back from Kyushu, the western-most island of Japan.  My mom's hometown is in northern part of it.  While I was there, I bought some just freshly cropped rice from  a nearby village.  They say that rice from that village is especially a local favorite (although you see rice fields everywhere around), and indeed, it was good.
Even with my non-fancy micro-wave rice cooker, the shine and the bounciness is different from old rice we can buy at supermarkets.  If you live in outside of Japan and if you have never tasted fresh rice, I hope one day you will!
My relatives also gave us some veggies from their fields so I brought some home.

This fruit is called Kabosu, used as lemon, but milder than lemon.