Artichoke seeds

I grew an artichoke plant in the past two years. It didn't come up last spring, I think it had died during the winter. I couldn't find artichoke plants this year, but I found artichoke seeds on the internet the other day. I bought a package of the seeds, I will grow them next year. I hope they will grow well. The seed company gave me flower seeds as a gift.

myoga

I bought 3 myoga plants this year. They didn't grow well, so I only got two myogas. I wonder if other countries' poeple eat them?

Halloween decoration at N's house

colored leaves

I love  at the time of autumn so much.  The air is so crisp, and it's so warm in the day time. I love the  autumn's  colorful scenery........
I love to collect fallen leaves to protect our garden's trees and plants, and to bury leaves to sofen the soil.

tempura soba

I took buckwheat noodle making class yesterday. I missed the class for two times, because I had to work. It was my second time to make soba, or buckwheat noodles. We learned kaeshi, or soba soup mix that day. The soba soup was delicious, so I want to make soba soup from scratch. I usually buy mentsuyu, and use it instead of soy souce. I made tempura soba for lunch, and made kashiwa soba, or chicken soba for dinner.They were both good!.

The first snow . Oct. 16th. in 2013

It snow some places and the suburb of my town on Oct. 16th. This was on someone's car roof, and it fell off on the ground. I think it's too early to have changed me snow tires, but I should!

Hello Kitty Halloween doughnuts

The other day, I went to next city to shopping and to do  some other things. Mr. Doughtnut, which is a doughnut shop's name,  sometimes sells seasonal doughnuts.This time they sells Hello Kitty Halloween doughnuts. If we buy a box of doughnuts, then we can get a  Hello Kitty stuffed toy as a promotion gift . I bought 2 boxes, and gave my neighbor.

These two  jack-O-lantern shaped doughnuts were very hard, and taste didn't too good. I won't but buy them next time.

Only one

I have been growing this cranberry plant for three years. I got only one berry this year. I don't know how to grow this properly, so I think I should pick this plant and grow some other berries.(???)

Tsukimi 2013.9

Homemade soba, or buckwheat noodles

 I took a buckwheat noodle cooking class in the morning.. It was my first time to join the class. We kneaded the soba dough by hands. Our master brought soba tsuyu, or soba soup and a pink skin daikon. We ate cold soba, and hot soba for lunch. We ate grated wasabi, grated pink skin daikon and sliced green onion for  garnish. It was so good. I could take out the soba noodle which I made, so I cooked similar soba this evening. It was also good. I want to grow some pink skin daikon.

with fresh crops

 This is a yesterday's lunch which I made with the cute cucumbers.

This is a yesterday's breakfast with the fresh black currants, raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries from our garden.

fresh star shaped cucumber and heart shaped one

I bought a star shaped cucumber mold and a hear shaped one two years ago.When  I saw them at a DIY shop, I thought star shaped cucumbers and heart ones were cute. Therefore, I bought the mold. I didn't use them in the past two years. The other morning, I saw some star shaped cucumbers and heart shaped ones on TV, they looked cute . So, I immediately tried to cover two cucumbers with the molds. 

I didn't care the cucumbers, after I put the molds on them. Today, I found them growing well. They turned out so CUTE!

blue berries

lavender soap

Farm Tomita

Last Sunday, I went to Furano with my friends. We took a  cheap  and super busy packaged  one-day bus tour called " Dangan tour". Dangan means bullet, but this time it means super busy.  We ate lavender soft ice cream, it smelled good and so yummy.

Farm Tomita  is famous for a lavender garden..  It was not in full bloom that day, but it was still beautiful.

The garden staff were weeding or picking old petals there.

I bought these lavender cookies which contain a little bit lavender buds and  almond crunch. They didn't smell  like lavender. Nor, tasted lavender. I drunk a cup of lavender coffee.  It was dripped a few lavender buds and coffee beans.  I expected that it smelled like lavender, but it smelled like ordinary one.

Light pink peony