moon

Moon, from a 5-year-old boy's eyes.

Gorgeous!!

busy Saturday lunch

I cooked breakfast, vaccumed the rooms, wiped the floor, did three loads of wash(because my son wet his sheets and stuff), aired out my son's futon, washed my son's 2 pair of shoes and...



Wow!!

It's already 11:30!!



I got one of a cookbook of my favorite author 'Yumiko Kanou' recently.

'菜菜ランチ'　SAI-SAI LUNCH



I flipped thruogh the book. Yep, I decided to cook this carrot dried curry.
It's quite easy one. How about recipe??
Unfortunatly I don't have enough time to post it. Because they're back!!(Of course my husband and my son)
Whew, I have to cook dinner for them now!! p(^^)q

putting recipes

Thanks for your comment, Grammy!
I'm afraid it will take a hell of a time to translate all recipes into English.
Because of my poor English skills(:_;)
Anyway, I'll try! It'll be my practice.

• deep fried anchovy(Tatsuta-age) with millet vinegar salad(for two)

Today'misson is 'How to make millet vinegar salad':->

1. Boil plenty of water(about 3 cups) in a pan. add your choice of millet, oats, barley...a total of 1cup and pinch of solt. Boil for about 5minutes till al dente, then drain.
2. Chopped your choice of vegetables, like tomatoes, carrot, cucumber,onion... sprinckle some solt over vegetables (except tomatoes). Leave them for a while. Absorb excess water using paper towels.
3. Mix 4tablespoons olive oil, 2-3tablespoons white vinegar, 1/2 teaspoon solt, 1 teaspoon soysauce and pepper in a large bowl.
4. Put boiled millet and vegetabiles into the bowl and toss them.

Add some herbs, such as parsley and coriander leaf, if you like.

I used some Japanese millet. It may hard to get them out of Japan.

How about Tatsuta-age? Well, I'll try to explain it another time.

autumn flavor

After cleaning, I wanted to have some flower on the dining table. But I don't have any flower vases. I have a small vase not big one.
Yes! I found a perfect vase in the closet.

Here another autumn flaver



My son is going to a drawing class. He really enjoys it and likes the teacher. How lovely picture he drew!

My first blogging

Japanese don't eat typicalJapanese food such as 'sushi, tempura, teriyaki etc ...' everyday.
Here, our today's dinner.

• rice cooked with chestnuts
• fried burdock root and carrot miso-soup
• chopped cucumber, shredded carrot and shiitake mushrooms marinated in soy sause and sesamioil
• stir-fries of dried strips of Japamese radish and raisins and tomatose, season with curry powder
• stir-fries of sliced zucchini

My son loves chestnuts one! But it's hard to make preparations, especially peeling!!!

I won't cook it for a while ...maybe...