タグ: Niigata

Shiso Seeds Marinated in Soy Sauce, Good to be Served on Top of Rice.

They are almost a kind of weeds in my garden, but “Shiso” is growing many places. They are now having seeds.

And people around here like marinated shiso seeds with soy sauce very much. I decided making it this time. I gathered seeds from green and purple Shiso, and got the amount of one bowl of metal colander.

I removed seeds from the stem by my finger, one by one.

I got 132 grams of seeds. Of course, the weight of container is deducted.

I put salt on them. I tried putting salt of 10 percent of Seed’s weight.

Next day, I washed the seeds and marinated with soy sauce.

Putting them on top of Rice, and I ate it. I felt it was like a taste of autumn season.

Now the Season of Persimmon, Got to Get Rid of Bitterness with Strong Alcohol.

This year too, I have got some persimmon fruits on the tree of a bitter persimmon “Koyo”.

I poured strong alcohol onto a small dish. And put the upper part of persimmon into it about ten seconds.

Then I put three persimmons into a plastic bag. I hope I will be able to eat them in several days. The strong alcohol I used was made from Gāoliang (高粱). I guess its smell will remain until I eat those persimmons.

Oh, by the way, now it’s the time for me to work a lot on my garden before the winter comes. So probably I will not be able to write a post of “Japanese Learning” for a while.

 I went to another Town to buy Garlic Bulbs in order to Plant them in my Garden.

I am thinking about planting garlic bulbs this autumn. Although I tried buying them in the nearest DIY shop, the shop told me they had already been sold out. So today, I went to another DIY shop in the town a little far from my village.

The green board says the elderlies and disabled have priority to use the elevator.

The blue board says the height of the ground is 1.5 meter (approx.5ft) above sea level.

This says “Walk pushing your bicycle.”

The blue part reads “upskirting and molestation are criminal acts”. And the yellow one reads “Is your behind okay?”, which probably means “Is there anyone suspicious in your back?”.

It didn’t seem there is anyone who was cleaning around.

It reads “If you run up or down the escalator, it may cause a sudden stop. Please don’t run.”

As you can imagine from these photos, there are a lot of cautions, warnings, directions, and so on in the public spaces in Japan.

Made Jam of Apple “Jonathan” that I got in my Garden

Since Jonathan is a sour apple, if I got them early, it could have been too sour. Therefore, I have just kept them hanging on the tree. Then some of them fell onto the ground, and some were eaten by worms and insects. I picked up them yesterday, and made them jam today. I used not cane sugar but beet sugar this time.

In reality, there is a lot of insects’ excrement. I got rid of them carefully.

I grated the apple. Thinking about the amount of sugar I had, I just stop grating when I got 1 kilogram of grated apple.

The pan was a little big, but anyway, I boiled 1kg(=1000g) of apple with 800g of beet sugar.

I got six bottles and more of apple jam. When I harvest fig in October, then I will make fig jam. I hope that I won’t need to buy any jam from the supermarket until spring, by pasting these my handmade jam on toast in breakfast.