Natto as part of a complete breakfast

This is how I presented the Japanese chicken-chested man his breakfast the second time I made natto-spinach egg rolls. Or well, not egg rolls, but rolled up eggs. Like curly omelets. On the left you will find our green hand-felted brontosaurus from the craft fair that we went to with the very artsy-fartsy Robin, admiring and thinking about yoinking T's breakfast. On the main plate there's the spinach-natto-ponzu rolls (protein), in the upper left is kinpira gobo (fiber), and in the upper right is boiled sweet potatoes (fiber and starch). Like every complete Wa-foo breakfast, this is accompanied by miso soup (this one has enoki, tofu, wakame (the usual flat and dark green miso soup seaweed), and possibly something else, I can't remember), rice topped with shirasu (sweet, dried sanjeel fish), and Yama-moto-yama (a nice brand, nicer than Trader Joe's not-even-green) green tea.

Here is a closer-up shot of the main dish:

Learning from T's mama, the consummate Japanese housemommy, everything but the egg thing is leftover from the day before.

I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "WHAT IS KINPIRA GOBO?!?" I will tell you so you don't have to go and Google it. First, kinpira is pronounced "keeM-pee-ra" because of what geeky people call place assimilation. Next, gobo is burdock root (the long, as in 3 to 4-foot-long, 1" diameter tapered brown stick things at Asian supermarkets that you can get for about $0.80 each,) and kinpira gobo means you stir-fry it Japanese-style with carrots and top with sesame seeds.

I will post the complete recipe in another post once I have a nice close-up photo of it. But that won't happen until after the next time we buy gobo. So gimme about a week or two.

CAN YOU WAIT THAT LONG?!?! がんばって、ね！！

And I will conclude with a picture of when I caught the dinosaur sneaking into the green tea:

BAD BRONTOSAURUS, BAD! GET YOUR OWN TEA!!!