Pickled beets & Daikon

The next day, the Daikon's colour became darker. Pink pink pink.

Japanese Starbucks Matcha Latte

Ummmm.....once enough.

Halloween decoration

Since I bought the Better Home and Gardens Halloween issue this year, I wanted to make something. I haven't make anything yet, because I am lazy. I decorated a triangle shaped tiny window with some my old Halloween ornaments. They are not gorgeous , though. I wanted to grow some orange pampkins, but none of the seeds sprouted!!

cuoca

Once in a while, I buy some foods from an on-line shop, named Cuoca. This time I ordered a tin bat cookie cutter, a tin ghost cookie cutter, a tin cat cookie cutter, and some other foods.
http://www.cuoca.com/

shamrock

In case my car is stuck somewhere during the winter

I carry this tiny plastic scoop to shovel the snow.

medium size cherry tomato

kiku

Botamochi,Ohagi

mums

colored leaves

The other day's lunch

I just bought these.

Sukiyaki Doritos

紫とピンクのじゃがいも

皮が赤いじゃが芋は見たことはあったけど、中まで色の付いているのは初めて。勿論、育てたのも初めて。本当に、中まで色が付いていて感動！
しかし、アメリカには前からあったんだって。
白、ピンク、紫の３色入りネット売りというのも、あちらでは販売されているらしい。
その３色の芋を、ガーリックとオリーブオイルでソテーしたり、オーブンで焼くと美味しいらしい。
私は、紫と黄色の２色だけ使って、きのこ、玉ねぎ、ハーブ、ミートソース、とろけるチーズ、粉チーズでじゃがいもグラタンを作ってみました。美味しかった。次回は、オーブンでじっくり焼いてみようか？いたみやすいので、早く食べなきゃ！

Pink potatoes

It is our first time to see and grow purple potatoes and pink potatoes. We got only 2 bucketful of potatoes total. I have seen red skin potatoes before. I made mashed potato dumplings. They taste like ordinary potatoes

Purple potatoes

I think these purple potatoes are Japanese brand new potatoes.They taste like ordinaly potatoes. I made the dumplings with the mashed potatoes and the potato starch.

First,we ate the dumplings into Mitsumame. Second, I we ate them with Kuromitsu, it's like morasess(maybe mis-spelling). Then, we ate the left over ones with miso soup.

百日草

Nanbanmiso（南蛮味噌）hot chili pepper miso

This is my mother made sweet & spicy miso paste called" nanban miso".
It is good for rice, and dipping cucumbers, and some other vegetables.

ingredients:
miso
sugar
sliced green chilis
sliced Japanese green perilla leaves
white sesami seeds
bonito flakes
oil

direction
1, stir green chilis and perilla leaves for a couple of minutes
2, add miso and suger, and stir them well
3, add sesami seeds and bonito flakes before turn off the gas
That's it!

Beans rice(豆ご飯）.mame gohan

甘納豆入り赤飯 (sweetened beans red rice).steamed version

Ingredients,

uncooked glutinous rice...1kg(soak it in water one night),

in case you do not have time (2 hours)

red food coloring...............a little

sugar...................................5g

salt.......................................14g

water...a cup of rice bowl

Direction

1, Color the salked rice with food color

2, Drain the rice

3, Bring water to a boil in base of a steamer. Line the steamer with cheesecloth and spread

the rice on it. Poke a hole in the middle of the steamer for the steam escape.

4, Steam the rice over high heat for 15 minutes.

5, Blend sugar salt and water

6, Replace the rice to a different pan or, a bowl. Sprinkle the blended salt and sugar water over the rice. Mix them well.

7, Put them back to the steamer, and 20 mimutes to the rice cooked.

8, Cover the sweatened beans on the rice , and steam 2 minutes.

9, Mix the rice and beans with a spatula

10, Serve the rice and beans bowls and sprinkle Sesami Salt.

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Moon cake(月餅）

I have read that Taiwanese people eat moon cakes on the fullmoon viewing day. We don't have a habit to eat moon cakes on that day, but I bought some . They were tasty.

Tukimi(月見）Jugoya(十五夜)

Today is Moon Viewing Day, Jugoya, the 15th of the eighth month by the lunar calendar, the traditonal day to admire the full moon and make offerings to to it.One point of this is to enjoy gazing at that bright moon. It's also a kind of harvest festival. We offer Tukimidango, or moon viewing dumplings, newly haversted fruits and crops from fields, and Susuki, or Japanese pampas grass. The previous day, I walked to a field to pick some Japanese pampas grass. I couldn't easily find them, so I had to walk a lot. Finally, I found the pampas grass. Yay!

月見

七夕同様、中秋の名月も中国から来たようだ。去年買った台湾料理の本には、中秋の名月のデザートに「月餅」が紹介されている。作ってみようか、買ったほうが安くて美味しいし・・・などとあれこれ考えて、まだ、作ったことがない。滅多に月餅なんて食べないが、明日はバラ売りの月餅でも買ってみようかな？

Susuki, or Japanese pampas grass

Tommorow is a fullmoon viewing day, so...

This evening, I walked to a field to pick some Japanese pampas grass to offer the moon tommorow night. I looked for them, but I couldn't find them easily. I walked for a while, and finally I found some Pampas grass across the stream. It was an indian summer , so it's nice to take a walk.

Thorn free blackberry

トレビス

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The weed flower あざみ

How do you say this wild flower in English?

The park's sign

This sign says," This park is for everyone. So,please bring back your babage , and use the park cleanly. Do you have this kind of sign in your country?

I didn't know this issue was all about Halloween.

Anyway, I will try to make something.

The train station in the town where my sister lives in

Heroes season 1 final episode

Last night I watched Heroes season 1 final episode. Whenever I listen to Hiro's strange Japanese English accent,I think nowadays our English is not so bad like Masi Oka plays in the drama. Anyway,that is a drama.It can be anything.こんな英語じゃ言いたいこと伝わらないだろうなあ。もっと、本などを読まなきゃ！

Habanero peppers

If I couｌd do that again......

I would have listened to my mother. I think she was always right.
I would have studied alot.
I ......too many!

綿あめ屋（wataame ya)the cotton candy stand

←Hello Kitty

お面屋（omen ya)The mask stand

The statue from Denmark in the park

The cosmos festival in my town

赤飯(sekihan)steamed red bean sticky rice と風呂敷（furoshiki)wapping cloth