tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17368081145653983802024-02-19T14:16:10.353+09:00Japanese meal pageorchid0324http://www.blogger.com/profile/01230850040531307075noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736808114565398380.post-51427268338635925702016-11-06T22:35:00.001+09:002016-11-06T22:35:47.361+09:00Japanese Fall Tsetses;<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Around middle of last month, my aunt and cousins invited us to my birthday lunch. Although my birthday is Sept., we needed to fix our schedule. The restaurant serves high-class Japanese meal♪</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> <i>I had a wonderful day chatting and singing at Karaoke after lunch.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"> Dobin mushi</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-style: italic; text-align: left;">(<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja" xml:lang="ja">土瓶蒸し</span>)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; text-align: left;"><i> </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; text-align: left;">It is a traditional Japanese broth, steamed and served in a </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #252525;">earthenware called </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; text-align: left;">dobin</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; text-align: left;"> tea pot with shrimp, chicken, soy sauce, lime, and </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsutake" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Matsutake"><i><span style="color: #7f6000;">matsutake</span></i></a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; text-align: left;"> mushroom. The special mushroom is a bit expensive and have great spicy aroma♪</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Let me add chestnut-rice and pumpkin I cooked before fall is over :-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">White going home from errand, we spotted some people were digging shellfish. The shellfish is </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://image.search.yahoo.co.jp/search?p=Cyrenidae+Gray&search.x=1&tid=top_ga1_sa&ei=UTF-8&fr=top_ga1_sa#mode%3Dsearch" style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span lang="la" style="text-align: center;" xml:lang="la">Cyrenidae</span><span style="text-align: center;"> Gray</span></span></a><i>,</i>we call it 'シジミ, shijimi'. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">This particular shellfish said to have the medicinal effect of enhancing the liver function and live in the<span style="color: #7f6000;"> </span></span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brackish_water"><span style="color: #7f6000;">brackish waters</span></a></i> (of an estuary). I knew they live in the area 'estuary' which has </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;">water that has more </span>salinity<span style="text-align: left;"> than </span>fresh water. My husband proudly taught me the area is called '</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;">汽水域, kisuiiki' in Japanese :-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">With this shellfish, we normally cook miso-soup. I had urge to eat<i> </i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #212121;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>bowl of </i></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>conger eel and rice</i>. Believe me, they are yummy.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">This hot dish is popular diner in Japan during cold winter season. As </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">my aunt kindly sent us Crab as 'Year end Gift' last year, I cooked with them more tasty gorgeous Nabe than my usual one :-) Here is the links of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabemono">Wikipedia</a></i> and <i><a href="http://image.search.yahoo.co.jp/search?ei=UTF-8&fr=top_ga1_sa&p=%E9%8D%8B#mode%3Dsearch">picture</a></i> pages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I use <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2px;">dried sardine and sea weed then add powered one later for soup. After eating food in Nabe (earthen pot), we enjoy </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.1333px;">rice porridge made with the yummy soup left inside the pot. My husband prefers to add some vegetables as well.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.1333px;"> </span></span></div>
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orchid0324http://www.blogger.com/profile/01230850040531307075noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736808114565398380.post-19783180174277993822015-01-26T16:57:00.000+09:002015-01-26T16:59:19.094+09:00Sweet Red-Bean Soup and "夫婦善哉, meoto-zenzai';<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;"> This Japanese phrase came to describe "happy married couple".</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Noble and movie were made with this menu title. And even the Enka song whose lyric I love was sung by one of the singer. It was released in 1,987; I was married 1,977 :-) At that time I was helped by my husband's mental support after the infertility treatment for me didn't work. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Let me paste the video from You-tube introducing both the place and the song from last year. Haha, I was happy to find this one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.6000003814697px;"> living like duckweeds, you laugh </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.6000003814697px;"> around our shoulders, </span><span style="line-height: 19.6000003814697px;">alley autumn shower dancing</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.6000003814697px;"> even if we have nothing, my heart can be called a brocade</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This is a New Year's Tradition of eating a rice porridge with seven-medicinal herbs to bring good health and longevity. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">After enjoying New Year food (osechi), this simple vegetarian rice porridge is very refreshing, </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">help digestive system that is stuffed and exhausted. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;">Okayu </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">(お粥. rice porridge)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;"> is the traditional meal to eat when you’re sick; I <i>suppose</i> the Japanese equivalent of chicken soup:-)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">My husband's acquaintance who works at the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; text-align: left;">agricultural high school</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> kindly gave us this package of seven herbs which were grown by the students of the school.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>When I went to our city's airport to get tickets, I found this "Gold Fish Lantern" decoration. </i></span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I've already posted </span></i><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">about this </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">last year but let me show you again by using this years pictures</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> A coincidence vising there around the same season.</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">One of the cities in my prefecture (Yanai-city) has<a href="http://www.visit-jy.com/english/spot/detail.php?id=70"> <i>"</i></a></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://www.visit-jy.com/english/spot/detail.php?id=70">goldfish lantern festival"</a>. </i>It was originated through the idea of famous festival called </span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aomori_Nebuta_Matsuri">Nebuta Matsuri</a> </i>and used the city's dyeing technique to make them. The lantern became its city's folk-craft article. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Shimonoseki-city in my pref. is famous for its fish-catches. Puffer Fish (fugu 河豚) is enjoyed since more than</span> <span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">2,300 years ago. There were times (mainly, Edo period) prohibited to eat by Shognate, but the first Prime-Minister <i>Hirobumi Ito</i> liked it when he happened to have it. It was the trigger of lifting a bun. Sashimi is delicious but I rarely buy them just because of the price p:) These are the <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugu">Wikipedia</a></i> and <i><a href="http://image.search.yahoo.co.jp/search?p=%E3%83%95%E3%82%B0%E6%96%99%E7%90%86&aq=6&oq=fugu&ei=UTF-8#mode%3Dsearch">Fugu dish </a></i>pages for the reference. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This noodle is called "so-men, 素麺". Somen is one of the popular lunch menu especially during hot summer. We have a phrase '喉越しがいい; nodogoshi-ga-ii', which means "pass</span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> down our throat comfortably" or '</span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">palatable' </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;">for one word. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;">It usually served cold with a light flavored dipping sauce</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;"> or </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">tsuyu</i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;"> Like Soba noodle for summer version. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;">With lots of other topic, I missed the chance of posting this drafted one and may be a bit late for summer. <i>As we consider autum is getting close after Obon. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">Sorry that my old friend may remember my old post about this dish. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">About a week ago, awaited annual</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;"> gift of spring taste from my next-neighbor arrived. W</span><span style="line-height: 25.200000762939453px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">ife of the family has parents who are semi-agricultural and lives mountain side.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 25.200000762939453px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Its season starts from April and we can enjoy them until May. <i><u><a href="http://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.jp/#axzz2ywZ6J3M3">My blog friend</a></u></i> taught me that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">one of the highest fiber content vegetable. So it help us to keep cholesterol levels. I wonder if mine suits my friends' taste in western country.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">This was my late brother's favorite dish too and I remember his happy face when he came </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">to have them or pick them.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"> We have superstition that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Life is prolonged for 75 days when we eat firstling of the season"</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> <i> I wish to believe it p;)</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Linking this post to <i><u><a href="http://katherinescorner.com/">"Thursday Favorite Thing"</a></u></i></span></div>
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orchid0324http://www.blogger.com/profile/01230850040531307075noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736808114565398380.post-8002373006990140692013-09-29T14:37:00.000+09:002014-07-01T19:31:01.345+09:00Chestnut-rice (autumn flavor)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">I had another birthday gift on my birthday this year</span></span><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">♡</span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">♡</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">♡</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">18th of this month, we had our eagerly awaited annual gift of chestnuts from our neighbor this year as well. So, I cooked chestnuts-rice on my birthday. I had many gifts this year, harvest moon pictures(from husband), flower-basket(from cousins) and the chestnuts</span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">♬</span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">♬</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">♬ </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I felt SO blessed this years birthday. It would have been far better, if only I hadn't got a cold soon after on that day, p;) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It is a kid of flavored rice with soy source, sake, sugar and soup stock. I put all the mushrooms you can see below which we can find in Japan. Added some shrimp. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">The store wasn't so crowded, so I took some photos of them with mobile phone. There were some<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>pine-mushrooms</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>from a foreign country. They are a little expensive, especially the ones from our own country. There will be another chance to show them p;)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Anyways, enjoyed the autumn flavor</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">♡</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">♡</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">♡</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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orchid0324http://www.blogger.com/profile/01230850040531307075noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736808114565398380.post-47464172926599512572013-07-15T21:51:00.000+09:002014-07-01T20:54:46.595+09:00Umeboshi,"pickled plums" made by my husband♪<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;">Not every year, but I used to make </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;">"pickled plums" </span><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Umeboshi・梅干し</span></i><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"> </i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;">as my husband wished to have them in his lunch box before retirement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This year my husband surprised me saying that he would like to try making them by himself. I thought I should end up helping him a lot. However, he did his best and we satisfied with the pickles.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As my late mother loved them and I've seen how she made. I've known how much efforts it requires. Well, especially in hot summer my mother looked refreshed having this sour pickles. </span></span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.mitoku.com/products/umeboshi/healthbenefits.html">This site</a></span></i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> will teach you a lot about health benefit out of them. Making these pickles requires a lot of </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><i><a href="http://japanesefood.about.com/od/pickle/ss/howto_make_umeboshi.htm"><span style="font-size: large;">process</span></a><a href="http://japanesefood.about.com/od/pickle/ss/howto_make_umeboshi.htm" style="font-size: x-large;"> </a>(</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>←</i></span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">link)</i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> to step. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 22px;">At the time of post-war period just several decades ago or another food shortage period, Japanese people had </span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 22px;">"</span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 22px;">hinomaru-benntou.<em> Rising Sun flag-lunch box <span style="color: black;">(literal translation)</span></em>"</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 22px;">. As you can see it looks like our</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: #990000;">national flag</span></i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Until my hubby retired, I used to make lunch box like the second one with Umeboshi in it.</span></span></div>
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orchid0324http://www.blogger.com/profile/01230850040531307075noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736808114565398380.post-65859126827555880272013-02-10T21:18:00.001+09:002014-07-01T19:35:07.398+09:00Cooked Radish "ふろふき大根"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><i>I've been wondering how radish is cooked in European cooking </i></span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">because we mainly eat it by using soy source. It helps us a lot when we don't have much appetite.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">From our dinner several days ago. M</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">inced chicken meat on top is cooked separately from the radish and thicken them with starch. I think the soup is delectable as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And this one I cooked last night. Grated radish is inevitable as it upgrade the tastes a lot. Funny that like my father and late brother, </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">grating radish is my husband's job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We sometimes have grated radish just putting the soy source. It is especially good for our stomach as the amylase it contains won't be destroyed without heat.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And I wish I could figure out why my pictures are bluish with the white back; calling to support center both pc and camera maker hasn't been the much help</span><span style="font-family: Century, serif;">(^^;)</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">And this is how my late mother used to cook for us. I remember that the pumpkin was the only veggies she didn't allow me to cut when young (I was slicing cabbage when I was 7 or 8 years old, haha). There were no such thing called microwave-oven to soften them at that time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Cutting them like these, put some dried sea weed. And then cook them with powdered-soup stock, sugar, cooking sake, soy source.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Wow, early first chestnuts this year♬♬♬</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Every year in September, we are expecting to have chestnuts from one of my neighbors. Enjoyed</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> the fall flavor for the first time this year. I took pictures of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1736808114565398380" name="_GoBack"></a></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">One of my next door neighbor (who is not
the one match-maker of us I mentioed before) have parents who own mountain. And
every year we have the privilege to have chestnuts from them. Hubby happily did
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I sometimes make this cold type noodle during the summer. This is what I made yesterday;</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> as always the taste is better than it looks </span><span style="font-family: Century, serif;">(^^;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">And you can have the recipes<span style="color: #741b47;"> <a href="http://www.noobcook.com/hiyashi-chuka/"><span style="color: #741b47;"><i>here</i></span></a></span></span><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><i></i></span></div>
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orchid0324http://www.blogger.com/profile/01230850040531307075noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736808114565398380.post-77664393255102670832012-07-25T10:12:00.000+09:002014-07-01T20:57:12.346+09:00炊きこみご飯(takikomi-gohan)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">My <i><a href="http://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #741b47;">Dear friend Mariette</span></a> </i>and her husband are experts of mushroom and I was reminded of their health benefits. We can buy many types of mushrooms in Japan and I never fresh out of them especially "shiitake". That particular one is really useful being able to cook in various ways. Today, I'd like to introduce one dish used "shimejitake" my mother used to made for us.</span></div>
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orchid0324http://www.blogger.com/profile/01230850040531307075noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736808114565398380.post-68632609831592684642012-07-20T14:27:00.000+09:002014-07-01T20:57:26.176+09:00Edamame♪ (green soybean)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">Today, I would like to introduce one of the favorite Japanese dishes to go with the drinks; especially with beer during the summer time. It is " boild green soybean". My husband doesn't drink but he loves it. I have no way knowing how you have green soybean in your culture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">this picture is taken by me </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">^^;) </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">and I prepared this</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">This one is pretty easy to prepare. Just boild them for about 5 minutes and salt them. I remember that cutting them off from the twigs was my job when young. And I felt happy finding them in my mother's bicycle basket when she came back from her work in the evening. Haha, that was one of my sweet memories ♪</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #313924;"> Linking this post to </span><b><i><a href="http://raindropsanddaisys.blogspot.ie/search/label/Green%20Day"><span style="color: #38761d;">Green Day</span></a></i></b><a href="http://raindropsanddaisys.blogspot.ie/search/label/Green%20Day" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"> </a><span style="color: #313924;">hosted by </span><span style="color: #38761d;"><i><b><a href="http://raindropsanddaisys.blogspot.jp/" style="color: #af8c12;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Raindrops and Daisies</span></a><span id="goog_1472089672"></span><span id="goog_1472089673"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"></a></b></i>.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br style="color: #313924; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;" /></span></span></div>
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orchid0324http://www.blogger.com/profile/01230850040531307075noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736808114565398380.post-10874019558139114192012-06-29T15:42:00.000+09:002014-07-01T20:58:27.843+09:00Spinach Ohitashi (Green Day)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">First of all, thank you SO much for all of your kind words in my last post. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">You all are so sweet</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'MS 明朝', serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">♡♡♡ </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">A</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">lthough I'm not </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">fully recovered, starting to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">feel better and better. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">This dish is called "ほうれん草のお浸し, Hourenso no Ohitashi" in Japanese; </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">spinach dipped in soy sauce base soup. It is sort of reminiscing that I watched "</span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Popeye the Sailor" when young; and my mother tried to persuade me to have vegetables. It is my wonder how you cook spinach in western recipe.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I would like to introduce one of the recipes how we cook it in Japan. I made it for yesterday's lunch. I'm really sorry for my bad pictures as usual. I hope it looks tasty as it was. (I'll be linking this post to <b><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Green Day</span></i></b> hosted by <a href="http://raindropsanddaisys.blogspot.jp/"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i><b>Raindrops and Daisies</b></i></span>)</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I hope that it won't be the problem "food" for green day,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Century, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; font-family: Century, serif;">(^^;)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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orchid0324http://www.blogger.com/profile/01230850040531307075noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736808114565398380.post-60535724288351851102012-06-01T22:15:00.001+09:002014-07-01T20:58:44.897+09:00Variety of Noodles in Japan (part 1)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">You know my husband makes soba at home as a hobby. It is quite rare having it as a hobby, most people get surprised and say why he learned it unless he is not opening the restaurant; </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">(if you are interested in reading about what it is like, please visit "Soba noodle" page from the side-bar. I will skip writing about it)</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">; I would like to show you variety of other noodles you can find in Japan. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">I don't know how much people in other country know about them, and I'd like to start with 2 kinds of popular ones. You may surprise to know we enjoy so may kinds of noodles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">Not necessarily so, but noodles are eaten mainly at lunch time. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><i>Udon noodle</i></span><span style="font-family: 'MS 明朝', serif; font-size: 12pt;">……… "</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><i>soy sauce based soup" </i></span><span style="font-family: 'MS 明朝', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">We have variety types of topping for this one. And Udon noodle is white as wheat's hull are all removed when milling. On the other hand, buckwheat noodle is a bit blackish as its hull are not completely milled. </span></div>
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orchid0324http://www.blogger.com/profile/01230850040531307075noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736808114565398380.post-61169032071321601492012-03-27T18:16:00.020+09:002014-07-01T20:59:01.486+09:00Cooked Bamboo shoot ♪<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Tasty and seasonal gift form our next door neighbor. Young wife of the family has parents who are semi-agricultural and lives mountain side. I am not sure if you have a custom eating them in the western culture. I was a bit surprised because they were given earlier than the usual year. Its season starts from April and we can enjoy them until May. Boars love them as well and sometimes fresh shoots are sadly eaten by them. My late brother really loved the food and whenever I called him that I cooked them; he gladly rushed to pick them.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Century, serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And the blackish square thing is <i>"</i><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><i>dried kelp"</i>, which </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;">use them for Japanese dish to </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;">help them more tasty </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We sure could enjoy the taste of the season yesterday. And we have a saying that <i>"</i></span><i><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Life is prolonged for 75 days when I eat a firstling"</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">With my age, 75 days are really precious, p;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Yesterday morning, I had a request from hubby to make "zenzai" </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><em>Japanese Sweet Red Bean Soup</em> (sometimes with small rice-cake). I grilled rice-cake and put it in there. I finished making it before noon. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Haha, it is one of the hot sweets favored during the winter, and I think it should be treated as a snack. But he said he wished to have it soon for lunch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I had ready-made <em>"</em></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><em>raviolis a la vapeur (shumai in Japanese) or one of the Chinese Dumplings"</em> in the fridge and flied them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This picture is from <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=zennzai+picture&hl=en&site=webhp&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=L78gT6a9EO-WiQfszdXaBA&ved=0CCMQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=646"><span style="color: #741b47;">this page</span></a> of pc, and recipe is <a href="http://bebeloveokazu.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/instant-shiratama-zenzai-sweet-red-bean-soup-with-mini-mochi-pillows/"><span style="color: #741b47;">here</span></a></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #741b47;"> </span>you may be able to try. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: large;">I made it from scratch, p;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">For dinner, I made <em>Green-Pea-Rice, Cooked Sqid with</em> <em>soy-sauce, Grated Yam with Vinegar Taste</em> (yam or kind of potato for especially good for grating)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: large;">I have kind of nostalgic feeling for green-pea-rice. My late mother used to make this my favorite kind of tasted-rice often for me. Even if I had a small appetite when young, for this one I had second service sometimes. Haha, she worried my slow </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: large;">growth a lot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: large;">I fiddled with the free-soft called PhotoScape and tried to put frames for the pictures, hehe. And I realized that I could fix the size of the picture in the blog even from HTML early this year. What a slow learner! </span></div>
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orchid0324http://www.blogger.com/profile/01230850040531307075noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736808114565398380.post-13829704145307490842011-12-26T08:34:00.006+09:002014-07-01T20:59:38.695+09:00Gorgeous Homemade Christmas Dinner of my student♬<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-size: large;">She has interests in various field and kind of all-rounder, "studious, bake cakes, wishing to have job for children's education". Bear with me bragging my sweet student's delectable looking meal, haha. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Haha, mine was just grilled chicken-leg, cooked veggies with soy-source base soup, cake from my favorite cake-shop. How simple♪</span></div>
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<span style="color: #313924; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">This dish is called "Oden" which is enjoyed when cold season comes in Japan. </span></span><span style="color: #313924; font-family: Times; font-size: large; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">These first two pictures are from PC-site. Traditionally, we cook it with this type of earthen pot. <a href="http://www.japanfoodaddict.com/soup/oden/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><em> recipe page</em></a></span><em style="color: #313924; font-family: Times; font-size: large; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">←</span></em><span style="color: #313924; font-family: Times; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">link</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">Oden is a Japanese one-pot dish in which ingredients are slowly simmered in soy sauce based soup. It's a typical Japanese winter dish. I put <span lang="EN-US">hard-boiled eggs, devil's tongue (or <em>konjaca; </em>chewy plant-based gelatin), daikon (radish), and various types of Japanese fried fish balls and fish cakes, mashroom, a kind of potato called <em>koimo,</em>flied tofu. I especially love the hard-boiled eggs, which has the subtle taste of the oden broth. You </span></span><span lang="EN"><span lang="EN-US">may think it is not a delicious looking dish because of its color, haha.</span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Well, it is a winter dish<span lang="EN-US"> which can bring everyone in the family around the table, sharing good food and making nice conversation of the day, I love the atmosphere this dish have♪♪♪</span></span></span></span></div>
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orchid0324http://www.blogger.com/profile/01230850040531307075noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736808114565398380.post-18807020470328574032011-10-27T08:53:00.001+09:002014-07-01T21:00:28.640+09:00Chestnut-rice and cooked veggies<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">Oh, my pictures are always poor and don't know why a bit of darkish; they just don't do the justice for the taste. Yes, please believe me they were delicious and my hubby asked me when I would post meal topic next time, haha.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> If you enlarge pictures, might look more delectable p;)</span></span></div>
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