カテゴリー: Asian Food

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.

I took my mother to a dermatologist today.

We left home at 10a.m. and went to see a dermatologist. My mother has a skin problem on her both ankles to lower knee. She had already finished using medicine of the last time. So I took her to there because she cannot go there herself. When she bought new medicine at pharmacy, it was almost noon. We went to Rahmen restaurant to have a lunch. I ate a “Hot Miso Rahmen” as shown in the photo.

I won’t write a long post tonight, because I am going to write a music score using “Sibelius” from now. I need to learn how to use that software.

Made Slices of Radish hang to Dry them

Only several radishes were still left on the ground in my field. I pulled all of them in the morning today. I chose two of six radishes, pared them off, cut in six slices, and hung those slices from the ceiling. I was not sure which was better to dry them outside or inside, but this time I hang them inside house, at the place where the air-conditioner’s warm air blows.

In the afternoon, my elder sister came to my house. She, the only sibling of mine, comes once a month to see my(her) mother. But she stays at my house only two to three hours only. Today, she came at two, left at four in the afternoon. So, no lunch together, not much conversation, she just brought some fruits and music CD. My mother always complains, saying “Why she comes? What she is going to do when coming here?”.

I guess that my sister wants to show that she is also taking a care of my mother. When it comes to taking care of old parents, how each sibling shares the care tends to be a cause of conflict between siblings. Since I am single, just living in my deceased father’s house. She is eighty-six years old, still can wash and clean, but no longer cooks herself. So, I cook all the meals for my mother (and me). I take much care of my mother more than my sister, but I don’t have any bad feeling about my sister. Coming here once a month, I think that is the best she can do. And spending 19,600JPY (approx.125USD) for high-speed trains to come here is not that cheap.

When my sister came, I was out. I went to a DIY shop to buy fertilizer for field and soils for pot. I recently bought a fertilizer of phosphorus and potassium. That one was okay, but I also needed another fertilizer having three ingredients of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium (N, P, K) balanced. And I bought two packages of soil for using in a pot; one was soil in which water can go through easily, the other was acidic soil for blueberries.

A day without rain is precious in late autumn in Niigata, northern JAPAN.

Memory of a Korean Restaurant in Niigata, where I often visited in 2018.

Today, I spent most of hours to do a DIY thing. I was making three wooden frames with plastic screens on them. I was thinking to put those things on the bay window. I have recently shown on this blog with citrus seedlings at bay window. I was thinking that that bay window was making heating ineffective in winter. If I could have finished the “Insulation Screens” on bay window, I would upload the photo of them. But I couldn’t finish making them today. I am not going to show them today.

Other than that, I don’t have anything to write in tonight’s post. I just want to upload photos of seven years ago.

A Korean Restaurant in Niigata, JAPAN.
It was probably in November 27, 2018

Does it look tasty?