The weather here has been all over the place and I'm feeling really rough with the barometric pressure changes. Made a Japanese ginger hot pot for dinner with a load of garlic chives, and veggies from our garden. After eating it I'm feeling the most normal that I have all day. Maybe just the right amount of salt to balance out my pots or something.

This is my base recipe.
https://japan.recipetineats.com/ginger-hot-pot-with-pork/#wprm-recipe-container-12594

I'm tired and chronically ill so I just use hondashi for my dashi broth and then balance it out with mirin, sake and shoyu until it tastes good, though she has a ratio if you don't have shiro dashi to add. Hot pot is almost more of a vibe than a recipe so you can really play around with it, swapping proteins and veg. Loving the massive dose of ginger I can power up with this, and my sinuses that have been battling with forest fire smoke are really happy now.

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