The first snow late night on Oct.31st.

The weather report was right! It started to snow tonight! I had changed tires this evening, I didn't expect to have snow though. Yay!

Happy Halloween

These are orange Bochan kabocha, or orange nugets pumpkins which my mother grew. It is our first time to grow and see them. I want to make tiny pudding with them.

Kuma room shoes

I wanted to buy simple room shoes, and I thought these were childish. I bouhgt them, anyway. They are very cheap and keep my feet warm. Nice, eh?

Cheap purple watch

Chili Beans

Old -fashioned Baked Beans

Can you guess what I made?

The season of Halloween

Halloween is getting more popular in Japan. I have some Halloween ornaments, but I am very lazy to put them away. So, I won't decorate them this year.

Ugly Betty

I bought a Ugly Betty book about one month ago, and I bought this tiny book

from Amazon.jp.

Ramen

Since I watched a DVD called "The Ramen Girl", I wanted to eat ramen. And I made ramen

two days in a row.LOL

The Ramen Girl

This a DVD which I rented the other day. I didn't know about this movie until I saw it.

Beets

We clould get only a few beets this year. I will make Japanese pickles with some turnip tommorrow.

Kuma senbei

I found the Bear -shaped rice crackers the other day. Taste??? They taste the same flavor as ordinary ones.

Colored leaves

The front window was frozen.

The weather report had said, " We might have frost tomorrow morning" for about a week or so. Luckily, it was wrong. This morning we had frost , so it was very cold. However, it was very mild during the day . Sigh! This picture is so bad.

We had frost this morning.

Can you see the ice in the dirty bowl?

Pepper Dennis,精武飛鴻(Men and Legend..Japanese title)

denis

Last tomatoes

from our garden.

Baked purple sweet potato

Tofu curry gratin

Dango, or dumpling

syoyudare,or sweet dipping soysauc?

Ingredients,

sugar...to taste

corn starch,or potato starch and water. mix them well and stir in a pot , or microwave a few minutes, and stir it, repeat for few times. That's it. It's very easy, and yummy.

Tsukimi, or moon viewing

Moon viewing

Tonight's the full moon. It rained, and the sky was very dark last night. So, I didn't expected to see the full moon clearly tonight. Luckily, I was wrong! Yay!!!

Bear shaped cookie press

I bought this cookie press about some years ago, but I have never used it. I really love to collect some cooking gadgets. The bottom is round and its center is crown shaped press.