Oden is a typical dish in winter time in Japan. It’s easy to make and delicious! To make it better, you should simmer a variety of ingredients together and simmer them for a long time.( I kept simmering them for 4 hours this time.) Extracts from each ingredients seep into broth and that tasty broth seep [...]
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Oden/おでん
Posted in food, life, tagged hanpen, mochikinchaku, oden on December 16, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Like a single woman
Posted in life, tagged Johnny Depp, Nahomi Matsushima, Public Enemies on December 14, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I went see a movie ‘Public Enemies’ with one of my friend yesterday. How refreshing to go out without my husband and kids! It’s nice to be with them, of course, but it’s a different thing to hung around shopping mall, have a nice lunch, and talk about our Johnny Depp with a female friend. It’s [...]
Crazy display
Posted in food, life, tagged kagamimochi, mochi, oshougatsu on December 7, 2009 | 14 Comments »
I saw this display at a nearby hardware store. They stack the bunch of packages up to almost the ceiling.
Which one would you want to pull out? I kept my distance from them. How could you make up if that tower of packages had collapsed by your choice?
It’s a package of kagami-mochi for the new [...]
The violent acts in Japanese schools
Posted in life, tagged violent act in Japan on December 3, 2009 | 8 Comments »
This chart that I found on the newspaper the other day shows the number of violent acts in the Japanese schools has been increasing sharply. (The black line shows the amounts. The light blue line=middle school, the dark blue=high school, and the gray=elementary school) What’s going on in schools? Why are they so impetuous?
It reminds [...]
冷蔵庫 the new fridge
Posted in life on November 25, 2009 | 15 Comments »
My fridge broken down suddenly the other day. It’s natural because I’d used it for 13 years since I got married. I expected that would happen near future so I had already had an eye on the Hitachi new model, which has ‘the vacuum chill box/真空チルド室’ . You don’t need any plastic wrap or lid to keep fresh meat or [...]
The H1N1 has come to my home….
Posted in life, tagged H1N1, swine flu, tamiful on November 21, 2009 | 14 Comments »
Tatsu was diagnosed as the H1N1 flu yesterday. I had supposed that would happen sooner or later, for his classes have been canceled due to its epidemic from last Wednesday.
He had a bad headache yesterday, but now he can smile and keep talking as usual. It’s good barometer whether he’s fine or not.
The doctor we [...]
The Umbrella bag/かさ袋
Posted in life, tagged kasabukuro, umbrella bag on November 17, 2009 | 17 Comments »
Today, it’s raining. Very cold rain…
In a rainy day, you could find a special stand for the plastic bags at the entrance of the supermarket like this.
You’re supposed to put it on your umbrella during shopping not to drip water drops on the floor. It is used only for that. When you leave the supermarket, you [...]
My kitchen tools
Posted in food, life, tagged dashimaki, makisu, syamoji, takoyaki, tamagoyaki on November 12, 2009 | 21 Comments »
Here is some of the tools from my kitchen. Are they unfamiliar with you?
1) A special pan for takoyaki . This is not popular all over the Japan, but only at Kanasai area, they have these pans commonly in the kitchen.
2) A square pan for tamagoyaki/Japanese omelette. See the You-tube video I attached below, and you [...]
When and where do you take off your shoes?
Posted in life, tagged agarikamachi, fujiwara tomomi on November 5, 2009 | 42 Comments »
Yesterday, I read an interesting short essay in the newspaper, written by the writer Fujiwara Tomomi (HE, not she!). It was the title of his article that caught my eyes. That said, “Only the Japanese who were wearing shoes.” You could imagine easily that the Japanese take off their shoes inside the house as it’s [...]
ハローウィーン Halloween in Japan
Posted in food, life, tagged gummy hand, halloween, Japanese halloween on October 31, 2009 | 14 Comments »
Tsukareru-chan sent me a BIG package for Halloween present! Thank you Tsukareru!
The most surprising thing of them was this!!
My family could not even cut it, so asked for help to neighbors!!
They were all screaming out , gazing at, and laughing!! The only person who could eat it casually was the smallest girl in that picture! [...]
