The origin of this custom is unknown: one says that Soba (long noodle) means long life, other says that you can cut off bad fortune like you can cut Soba easily.
JC is interested in Japanese customs, so we followed this one, too.
He had to work at night so instead of simple Soba, we had Curry Nanban (Curry with Soba) so that he wouldn't become hungry later.
I mixed Karaimonoya Curry Powder and S＆B Curry roux for this Beef curry.
This is very easy to make but delicious curry.
We had sparkling wine, too, in case if he wouldn't come home for count down.
The wine we had was Terre de la Custodia Sublimis Gladius.
Sparkling wine from Umbria, Italy.
They make great white wine, too.
The wine was made with traditional method, but it was fresh and retained lots of fruits.
Then you taste layers of white flowers, herbs, baking spices, different stage of fruit, from fresh to bruised. There was taste of yeast but it didn't interfere the freshness of the wine.
We didn't plan to pair these two: we just wanted to have curry this day and we just wanted to open this wine this day.
However, the pairing wasn't as bad as it looked. Maybe because the wine had relatively low acid for sparkling wine?
Anyway, we were relieved.
One of my news from 2016 should be starting this blog. But continuing is harder than starting. This will be my new year's challenge.
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