One day trip

Drive...

Today I went day trip with my parents. My mum drove for me and dad.
I took lots of photos. I chose some of good one for here.
We went to Tanigumi village.

First of all we went to Kegon-ji (Kegon temple).



This photos are statue of 'A' (Left) and 'Un' (Right).

We walked inside the sanctuary.



This is call 'Tourou'. (Lantern)

After left Kegon temple we walked through temple town.



I found one statue.. Looks cute.
This is a raccoon dog. The size is almost same as my height.



Those things has fire extinguishers inside. It was first time to see like this. Usually inside the red or white box.

Next we went to Yokokura-ji (Yokokura temple).



It looks like castllated wall, but it is wall of temple.



This is inside of the temple.
It's called Sanjyu no tou (Three story of pagoda).

After we left Yokokura temple, we drove off to Oogaki.

We had really nice sweets called 'Mizu manjyu'.

It's made of root of 'Kuzu'. In English 'Kudzu'.

It was really great time...

Sky...

Sunset



When I was looking a sky, I noticed beautiful cloud.
I felt I should take a photo. It looks like autumn sky...
In the day time still hot, but in the morning and night getting cooler.
Autumn is near here...

Salad.

Salad for dinner

I made a coleslaw salad for dinner.

Of course it's not only this.. but I just made this one. My mum made different things.

I forgot to put pinch of salt for rubbing some vegies which dry out. But actually it was ok. Compare to rubbing salt, this time is much more crispy.

Failure teaches success.

I'm not sure this is the correct idiom.

Happy Birthday!!

My brother's birthday... 06/09/09



It was my brother's birthday.
My mum made many special food for my brother, but didn't take any photo...
Also made a cake for my brother.
This is the cake. It's different from Australian birthday cake.

Happy birthday my brother!! :-D

Cooking Time!!

Dinner time!!



I made some Japanese dishes last night.
Tofu salad, boiled punmkin (Nimono in Japanese), miso soup, rice. There was a chicken's dish, but that one was made by my mum.

Today's recipe is Nimono with pumpkin (Boiled pumpkin). It's in top left of the photo.

~Ingredients~
- 1 Pumpkin (small size) - 4 table spoon of Mirin (Sweet cooking sake)
- 1 Onion - 2 table spoon of Soy sauce
- 1 Carrot - 1 pinch of sugar and salt
- 1 tea soopm of fish stock
- Water (1/3 from the bottm of the pot to top of the vegies)

~Recipe~
1. Cut the vegetable. Slice the onion into 1cm. Cut the pumpkin and carrot into the bite size.
2. Heated up a pot and put a little bit of oil into the pot.
3. Put the vegetables into the pot and stir fried.
4. Put the every seasoning into the pot.
5. Pour the water and stir the little while.
6. Put the lid inside of the pot. (If you don't have it, use aluminum foil)
7. Turn down the heat to very small and boiled for 15 minutes. If the carrot or pumpkin is still hard, boil until become softer.
8. Finally serve in bowl.

You can change or add vegetable.
eg) Potatoes, eggplants, beans...
Also you can put meat (Chicken, beef or pork). It depends your choice.

Enjoy your meal!!