日: 2021年9月26日

1-6 Morning Market in the Town of Niitsu, Niigata Pref., JAPAN.

This morning I wanted to go to 1-6 morning market in the town of Niitsu. It has been a while since the I last time I went there. This blog has got many viewers to the pages about Ms. Yamashita’s Kimchi. But I hadn’t bought her Kimchi for several months now.
Although I tried getting on a train at 9 a.m, I missed it. I thought I wouldn’t like to wait for the next train. So I walked to the town of Niitsu from my village. It was about two and half miles. It took 50 minutes or so.

On the way to Niitsu, I found that persimmon was now getting yellow.

1-6 means that the market is held on the date whose last digit is 1 or 6. Today is 26th of September. Most of the shops open only on morning hours (Yes, it’s “Morning Market”).

Once I bought seedlings of “Akita Butterbur” from this flower shop person. But I could not grow butterbur well. They were ruined.

This is what I bought today.

Clockwise from the top,

Pears 300 JPY

Grape 1000 JPY

Chinese Cabbage Kimchi 700 JPY

Ginger 300 JPY

Total was 2300 JPY (21USD approx.).

I got the First Shot of Corona Vaccine Yesterday.

I just want to know how many people have titled their blogs with the same words as I did here. But I am sure mine is a little late. In Japan, vaccination was started for elderly and medical personnel. I am not young by any means, but not old to be given priority for the vaccination. So I had to wait for the time when my age group is permitted to get the shot.

The photo is the building that is being used for the mass vaccination site. After I got it, though I wanted to get on a free shuttle bus, I could not find where the bus stop was. So I just walked to get back JR station.

There were many yachts floating on the river.

I was surprised that the water shuttle was still in operation amid this Corona pandemic. I had thought the company had got bankrupt already.

The river mouth was heading towards north into the sea.

So Many Thanks to Likes from Cooking Blogs, Though I’m not Good at It.

The morning glory has started blooming at the entrance of my house. They are not Japanese species but western morning glory named “Heavenly Blue”.

I have to express my thanks to those cooking/cuisine blogs that like my tiny little blog. But I don’t think I am a good cooking person. I just boil everything in hot water. That’s it.

For example, I put those pieces of carrot and purple beans into Miso-Soup, with tofu.

Of course I don’t boil tomato, most of the time. These tomato, green beans, and okra came from my garden.

It is rare for me to heat with oil in a pan. But I tried it yesterday. I think I should have put more green leaves because they were shrunk by the heat.

Cooking a supper takes more than one hour. Usually it is one hour and 20 minutes for me to cook. But I eat what I cooked within 15 minutes. Long cooking time but short eating time.