カテゴリー: Asian Food

I didn’t think I was so exhausted.

I got up at 5:30a.m. this morning. I had to attend my mother because she was going to move to another hospital today. Since the end of February, she had been hospitalized because of cerebral infarction. Now it is the time for her to move to the next hospitalization to get rehabilitation. I got on a train at 7:30 and a bus at 7:57. I quickly gathered her belongings in the hospital, and we left there at around 9 by a taxi modified for transporting sick people. All through the morning after we got to the new hospital, I got a lengthy explanation, did consultations, and signed on a lot of documents. I left the new hospital at 12:20 by the free shuttle bus of the hospital.

 Getting off a local train at my village, I went to a supermarket and bought packages of Sushi and fresh sardines. I took my late lunch at 1:30, eating Sushi. Then I just wanted to take a short nap on the bed to get rid of my fatigue. But it couldn’t be a short one. I found that it was already 6 p.m. when I awoke from the nap. I got out of my bed and I called to two uncles to let them know that my mother had moved to another hospital.

 Then, I started to cook sardines.

It was terrible that I couldn’t find a function to rotate an image 90, 180, or 270 degrees on the editor of wordpress. I had to rotate images on my computer and upload them again.

Now the year 2025 is going to end. Let me look back the year by photos

January: I was living in the residence for foreign teachers. This photo shows what I put on steamed rice. It’s “Furikake” in Japanese.

February: I had been in my house in Japan during winter break. It seems that there was a lot of snow fall at that time.

March: The spring semester had started at the time of this photo. There was still ice on the surface of the pond in the campus.

April: Some plum flowers were blooming in the campus.

May: Iris flowers around the pond

June: When I was in the campus, I cooked all the meals myself except lunches in weekend. This is a typical dish which I ate for weekend lunch.

July: Though the final examination had ended, I was still in the campus, cleaning the room, and packing my belongings into suitcases to come back to my country, Japan.

August: Summer in this year was quite heated. This photo was taken on the way to a mobile phone shop.

September: Rice were becoming yellow at the beginning of September. Some were already harvested, and some were still green.

October: Japan’s “Susuki” and “Tall goldenrod” from foreign country were competing each other.

November: Iide mountains of altitude of 2000 meters had got snow.

December: Snow has come to low altitude area of Niigata.

My relax time after supper with a small package of snack

I usually write a blog post after supper. Today I worked a lot for the trellis for apple tree. It has been almost completed. And I received the result of chest x-ray test by regular mail from the city hall. I got the test on November 17th. And today is December 29th. It takes many days when it comes to works by public offices. Fortunately, the result was “no-problem”. If it said a further examination was needed, my daily life would be changed completely with anxiety. Since many relatives on my father side died of cancer, I think it is a kind like ticking bomb.

And now I am writing a blog post. I have already eaten a small package of snack. I decide not eating two packages; one at a night.

ブルボンの「味ごのみ」です。お茶は昼間の残りです。

I should have planted more vegetables for winter

It seems they will run out before spring come.

Since I don’t use pesticide, insects or worms have eaten a lot of green part of the Chinese cabbage as shown in the photo.  I need to wash the leaves well and get rid of worms’ droppings completely when I cook this cabbage.

This part of fish contains a lot of bones. You need to be careful when you eat it.

Every time I buy, cook, and eat “Burikama” that is part just behind of gills of yellowtail, I always think the same thing; I will not buy it again but buy ordinary slices of body meat which doesn’t contain a lot of thick bones. Because Burikama contains a lot of bones, it is difficult and even dangerous for my mother to eat by picking up pieces of meat between bones.

Next time I buy yellowtail, I am going to cook “Buri-Daikon” which is a famous winter menu.

I went to an Indian/Nepali Restaurant in Furumachi, Niigata yesterday

The last time I visited there was seven years ago. Yesterday I went to Niigata and took a lunch in an Indian/Nepali Restaurant in Furumachi. I ate “A lunch set” that was curry, naan, salad, and plain lassi.

The curry was a little much. As I was eating, I came to think that dipping wouldn’t consume all of it. So, I used chop-sticks and ate a piece of Naan by submerging it entirely into curry. I thought, if you would eat two Naans, the amount of curry fit them. It was 1080JPY, but my stomach became quite full.