Counrties festival

Scandinavian festival 
スカンジナビアのフェスティバル

I was looking at website where I usually looking for the event in the morning.
It looked interesting. There were people from Denmark, Sweden, Noway, Finland and Iceland at festival to introducing own countries. Also there was a Viking.
いつもの様に朝、インターネットでイベントを調べていると、面白そうなフェスティバルを見つけた。
スカンジナビアフェスティバル。フェスティバルには、デンマーク、スウェーデン、ノルウェー、フィンランドとアイスランドの人達が自分達の国について紹介をしていた。後バイキングまでいた。


Bottom of the photos are from Viking area.
下の写真はバイキングの所で撮った物。 

Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and IcelandTh

Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland,

Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland,

Tools for Viking.
バイキングの道具。
















Meals for Viking.
バイキングが食べている物の一部。
















When Viking went to sea travel around Europe, they used this.
バイキングがヨーロッパを航海した時の地図。

 

Compass for the trip, especially works well on the ship.
旅のコンパス。特に船の上では役に立ったらしい…


I found some things at the stalls...
屋台で見つけた色々な物…

 

















Children traditional clothes from Iceland.
アイスランドの子どもの伝統的な服。




















I do not know which country's people, but cute, isn't it?
I bought two dolls from this stall.
どこの国か分からないけど、可愛いお人形たちでしょ?
2つこのお店でお人形買ったよ。 


At the music stage, there were singing, dancing and playing instruments.
音楽のステージでは歌や踊り、演奏が行われていた。 

I really liked this group.
I was listening beginning from the end...
Lovely music. It was very relaxing.
お気に入りのグループ。
初めから最後まで聞きいってしまった。
とっても良い演奏で、癒やされた… 

I was bit hungry, so I tried this Denmark pancake.
It was yummy.
Actually it may possible to cook when I go back to Japan, because we use similar pan for making Takoyaki.
少しおなかもすいたので、おやつの時間…デンマークのパンケーキを食べた。
おいしかった。
日本に帰ったら、同じような物作れるかも。たこ焼きの鉄板が、このパンケーキの鉄板と似ていたし。

EKKA

EKKA time.
エカの時期。


I was waiting for a while.
EKKA has many things to watch, experience and learn.
Farm animals, food, flowers, art, craft and so on...
毎年1度約1週間のイベントがある。ブリスベンにいる時は、毎年行くのを楽しみにしている。
エカは色々と見たり、体験したり、勉強になる事ばかり。
農場の動物、食べ物、お花、アート、クラフト等々。
 
















Leather craft.
It was nice to see how to make leather things.
革職人。
作業を見ながら、職人風情を感じる… 














  
Learning about part of the beef in English...
Always wonder about the part of the meat when I go to grocery shopping. It was good to learn.
牛肉の部位のお勉強。
いつも買い物に行くとどこの部分のお肉なのか疑問に思っていた。これで、どこの部分のお肉を買っているのか分かるね。
















Sheep at zoo area.
we could touch various kind of animals.
ふれあい動物園。
色々な動物達が見たり、触ったり出来る場所。 


There were some competitions around the EKKA.
Craft, cooking, farming, etc...
エカでは色々な品評会が行われている。
下の写真はごく一部…















Hand made teddy bear.
One of the teddy bear I liked.
Fishing teddy.
手作りのテディーベア。
その中でのお気に入り。
魚釣りをするテディーベア。















Cake competition.
I still can not believe these are cakes.
ケーキの品評会。
今でも信じられないけど、これもケーキで出来ているの… 

 













Honey competition.
Honey art.
はちみつの品評会。
はちみつアート。 

Fruits and vegetable competition.
Many big fruits and vegetables.
Some were heavier than me.
フルーツと野菜の品評会。
沢山の大きなフルーツと野菜。
中には私の体重よりも重い物も…
 














Vegetable a fruits art by farmers.
This was one of art competition.
Very nice artwork.
農家の人達が作った、野菜と果物のアート。
これも、品評会の一部。
素敵なアートワーク。


I moved to LEGO area.
This area is also worthwhile to see.

レゴのエリアに移動。
ここも見る価値のある所。


 













This is also made by LEGO.
Can you believe it?
これもレゴで出来ている。
信じられる?  
 
This year's view point was big ship.
There were many bits and pieces.
It was fun to see and find something interesting.
今年の見どころは豪華客船。
細部にまでこだわる作品。
じっくり見ていると、色々な物が見えてくる…















Titanic
タイタニック















A lady was going to fall from the ship.
女の人が船から落ちそうになっている…

Part of the ship...
It is huge, isn't it?
You can not see from this photo, but there were many things in the window.
船の一部分...
大きいでしょう。
この写真からは見えないけど、1つひとつの窓からも、船内の様子が見れる。 


From the evening time, there were many event at the arena.
夕方からはアリーナで色々な催しが行われた。
 














Wood chop competition.
きこりの競争。
 
 













Huge car...
Sound of this car was also really noisy. However it was good to see.
There were so many actions with this car.
Jump and standing by back of wheels.
大きな車。
勿論車のエンジン音ときたらとてつもなく大きい。でも、良い経験が出来た。
この車は、色々な事をしたの。
普通車を土台にしての大ジャンプ。　そして、スタンディングアクション。（後輪のみでの走行。）


There were so many things apart from this.
Music (Ricki Lee concert), Iron man action, farmers action show (riding horse withother animals show).
Finale was Fireworks with music, laser and fountain show.
I can not say how beautiful was the finale. I have never seen Western fireworks show like that before.
それ以外にも色々なショーが行われた。
リッキー・リーのコンサート、アイアンマンショー、牧場の動物ショー（馬に乗った人が、農場の動物達を操り大きなトラックの上に牛を乗せて見たり、芝生スキーをしたり、等々…）。
そして、EKKAのフィナーレを飾る、花火。 
上手く言葉では言えない位綺麗だった。
オーストラリアで花火は何度も見ているけど、一番綺麗だったかも。花火と共に、音楽とレーザー光線、そして噴水のショー。

Australia day. オーストラリアの日

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie. Oi, oi, oi.
オージー、オージー、オージー。オイ、オイ、オイ。




After back from the Coolangatta, I had party at friend's house.
Yes, this day was special day which is called Australia day.
クーランガッタから帰ったこの日の夕方から、友達の家でパーティーがあった。
そう、この日はオーストラリア・デーと言ってみんなでオーストラリアをお祝いする。

Lamb burger.　ラムバーガー

It was really yummy burger. My friend cooked for us and made myself into a burger.
I had very nice time. Thank you for inviting me my friend.
とても美味しい、ラムのハンバーガーだった。友達が料理して、自分達でオリジナルのハンバーガーを作る。
とっても楽しい日だった。パーティーに招待してくれてありがとう。

Cooking time!!

Spaghetti meat sauce

The other day, I was thinking to make something for spaghetti.
I decided to make meat sauce which I can use other meals.

Meat sauce spaghetti

Meat Sauce

Ingredients

Minced beef about 400g
1 Carrot
1 Onion
2 piece of Celery with leaves
1 tin of Tomato
Few tomato sauce (As you like)
Salt, pepper and olive oil


Recipe

1. Cut carrot, onion and celery into tiny dice.
2. Stir fry the onion in the pan until turn to golden brown. Adding bit of salt, pepper and olive oil.
3. Put mince in the pan and stir fry until most of the meat turn to brown.
4. Then put carrot and celery into the pan and stir fry.
5. When all the vegetables are getting soft, pour tin of tomato and stir.
6. Add salt, pepper and tomato sauce to adjust the taste.
7. Stir until soup has gone to half the amount.

If you have red wine, add 1 cup makes more deeper taste.

Cooking time!!

Sweets treatment...

The other day I went to farmer's market with my mum.
We found nice apple for cooking.

I was thinking what to make after that and I came up with one recipe...


Apple crepe cake.


Crepe cake on apple jelly.
(Apple compote and custard are between crepes)

I made this from scratch.
This cake is made by seven layered crepe.
Apple jelly is no artificial colour. This colour is from the apple's skins.
Custard is also handmade.
Natural sweets... Be healthy...

This time no recipe is available... sorry for inconvenience...

Enjoying life...

-Harvest moon-

Today is called 'Jyugoya' or 'Chusyu no meigetsu'. We do 'Otsukimi' for our tradition.
Jyugoya is full moon night. Chusyu no Meigetsu is mid-autumn moon or harvest moon. Otsukimi is looking at moon.
This time we look at harvest moon to feel the autumn. We decorate 'Otsukimi dango' (Rice dumplings) and 'Susuki' (Pampas grass) on day of the harvest moon.

The weather forecast said 'We might not see moon, due to the rain from this evening.'. Also at that time, there were some clouds around the moon. Moon was hid before and after I took this photo. I was a lucky to take a photo.

Otsukimi dango with moon...

I made some Otsukimi dango after came back from the work.

That was easy. Just put rice flour with some water then made into small ball. After that boil them. No adding sugar or any other ingrediens.

It's easy and healthy sweet. We usually put dips such as 'Kinako' (Soy beans powder), 'Mitarashi' (Sweet soy sauce) and 'Anko' (Red beans paste).

Respect-for-senior-citizens-day

-Apple Jam-

Respect-for-senior-citizens-day is called 'Keirou no hi'.
On that day grandchild/children visit their grandparents to do nice thing on that day.

I normally give a present them.
This time I gave to my grandma Apple Jam. I made it yesterday.


-Handmade Label-
Ringo jam (Apple jam)


-Appearance-


-Ingredients-
Apple, lemon juice (1 tbs) and sugar.

-Recipe-
1. Peering the apple and take out the core.
2. Slice the apple and put it in the pan. Pour the sugar and lemon juice and wait few mins.
3. The heat it up. First high heat then low heat. Keep stirring (Do not burnt) until easy to break down.
4. Squish as much as you like. (All, half or even you can feel the apple)
5. Put it in a jar which sterile (put in the boiling water) then put a lid on and turn over little while.

This time I put sugar about 20% from after peering apple's weight.
Sugar amount depends on the variety of the apple. If it sour need to put more sugar. Also if you like sweet one, you need to put more.

You can just throw apple skin and core out, but I made into shervet before throw them.
The skin and core put in boiling water with sugar and boil until the skin colour is came out in the hot water.
Take out the skin and core then pour the juice into the containe. When it is cooled down put in the freezer.

Extra photo (23/09/10)


-Crystal Apple-

Recipes

Gyouza (Dumpling)

I made some Gyouza (Dumpling) from scratch.


I made some rolled doughs.


This is boiled Gyouza.


This is baked Gyouza.

~Gyouza dough~

-Ingredients- (For 40 pieces)
150g Flour
150g Bread flour
150ml Water
Some potato starch

-Recipe-
1. Put the flour and the bread flour into the bowl.
2. Pour the water into the bowl little by little and mix.
3. Keading the dough until smooth the surface.
4. Let rest the dough about 30 mins to an hour. (Longer is better)
5. Cut into small pieces then rolled into round.
6. Put potato starch rolled dough. It makes not put it together when you cook.

~Gyouza~

-Ingredients-
150g minced pork
4 or 5 pieces Chinese cabbage (Minced, rubbing salt and drain)
1/3 bunch of Syungiku/garland chrysanthemum
2 Spring onion (Minced)
2 Shitake mushroom (Minced)
1/3 head of Shimeji mushroom (Minced)
Small piece of ginger (Minced)
1 pinch of salt and sugar
2 table spoon of soy sauce and cooking sake
1 table spoon of Sesame oil

-Recipe-
1. Put all the ingredients into the bowl and mix well.
2. Put on the mixture middle of the one piece of Gyoza dough and wrap. When you wrap need to press the edges for sealing.

You can make maked or boiled from avobe recipes.
Boiled Gyouza: Just put Gyouza into bolind water until Gyouza is floating.
Baked Gyouza: Put Gyouza on the pan which already heated up. Then pour about one cup of water and lid on the pun. Bake it until it becomes golden brown.

Normally put Ponzu (Soy sauce with lemon and vinegar) a little. For baked Gyouza, if you like spicy one, put Ra-yu (chili sesame oil) into the Ponzu.

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!!

Dinner!!

~Dinner~

Yesterday I made some foods.

This is one of my dinner which call "salad noodle".

I wanted to eat many vegetable,so I put many things in this dish.

It was really good taste.