With friend...

Temple town and temple...

I met my friend. I haven't seen her long time.
It was really good day. Had lunch, shopping, walked around temple then had a drink.

We were walking in temple town. We found strange thing.. which is bottom...


What is this Gold coloured ball??
We tried to figure out what it is, but we couldn't find any information.


This is the temple. It is called 'Oosu kannon'.

It was a good weather to walk around. Actually bit warm.
We had lot of things to talk about. It was really nice to catch up my friend.

Things I like...

Multicultural dinner...

My mum sometime get busy for work and I don't work now, so I sometimes cook...
Tonight also made dinner for my family.


Meuniere of Flounder (Meuniere of Karei), saute of vegetable and soy beans, Mashed potato and burdock salad (Gobou salad).

I'm not sure the origin, but seems like French, Australian and Japanese dishes tonight...

Things I like...

HALLOWEEN!!

I did some cooking for Halloween with mum.


I baked a pumpkin bread. I used skin of pumpkin.

I made pumpkin soup too. Actually I made this, so I could make bread.

Special Halloween dinner.
Mum made Chicken Piccata and Pilaf. In the Pilaf used soup that before squash vegetable, took some soup from pumpkin soup.

My brother bought some Cream puff/Profiterole.

It was really nice Halloween dinner.
Many pumpkin food.. Bread, soup and pilaf.

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.

Went out.

~Morikoro park~

It was gorgeous day today (11th).
I went out with my mum. We went to Morikoro park. It used to be Expo (World Exposition).
The events were held this Saturday and Sunday (10th and 11th). There were many people and various kind of things. The park has nature and foreign culture displays.


They are baby ducks. They are so cute.


These are loggerhead turtle. It's kind of sea turtle.


These flowers are cosmos. There was cosmos garden.

I found an intersting building which still under construction. I don't know what they are making.

You can tell the weather from photo above. It was bit warm day.

I had really good time.

Strawberry

~Morning sweet~



The other day I picked two strawberries, but this morning I picked one more.
It's typhoon day, so I thought it might be gone, but there was... there were two. One of them are pink one. Maybe later I will pick.
Anyway I'm happy that strawberry was there. I tasted it. It was sweet. The aroma is really strong.

Australian wine...

~Australian Wine~



The other day went grocery shopping with my mum.
I sometimes check wine section. Near my shops there is wine section, but not many Australian wine. I found one reduced the price.

My opinion...
The colour: Yellowish
Looks : Bubbly

Smell: Muscat (As its name of label)

Taste: Bubbly, very sweet and little bit dry.

I guess it is dessert wine.
Taste is really good and nice aroma.

Plumpest...

~Jyuugoya (Full moon night)~

Today (03/10/2009) is Jyuugoya, so we are doing Otsukimi (Moon viewing). Otsukimi is traditional Japanese culture.
This is a day of viewing harvest moon. Usually pepole decorate Otsukimi dango (Round rice cake), Susuki (Japanese silver grass).



This is Otsukimi dango with some flowers. Actually special one. Nomally just rice cake, but this Otsukimi dango is my mum's made. Inside has sweet potapo's paste. One is normal sweet potato, the the other one is purple sweet potato.
On the back of the flower including Susuki, Black rice and Siso (Japanese basil).

This is havest moon. It was great night to looking up the sky.

I wish I have a good camera...

Thank God you're here...

Present from Australia...

~From Australia~





It's my present from Australia.
My friend of a friend's family gave it me. It was kind of surprise. I didn't expected get this. I really happy to get this present.

I met them few times. They are really nice and kind people.
I'm so glad to have such a gorgeous friends in Australia. I wish to meet them again as soon as possible.
I'm bit shy person. Especially someone who meet first time or few times, so at that time I couldn't talk much... Next time I meet them I want to talk more.

Thank you so much!! I really like your present.

I hope everything going well there...

Cute

~Strawberry~



It's tiny strawberries. About 1cm.
It was grown at my house.
I had one. It was sweet and good taste.

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!!

Mum's car

Today my mum bought a new car.

'Bye-bye...'



This is my mum's old car..


'Hello!!'




This is my mum's new car..

Cooking!!

-Cooking time-

I made hamburger steak for dinner yesterday.



On the dish.. there are hamburger steak, carrot glaze and pasta.
Actually I'm not sure what should I say in English for carrot glace, because glaze is French, but I couldn't find a word in English.
Carrot glaze is made with water and honey. Usually put sugar, but for health reason, I put honey.

Hamburger steak

Ingredients
For hamburger steak
-400g minced meat (Beef, pork or chiken. As you like.)
-1 onion (minced and stir fry)
-Bunch of Simeji mushrooms
-A handful of bread crumb
-1 egg
-About 50ml of milk
For sauce
Tomato sauce
Tonkatsu sauce (Explanation is bottom, second green colour.)

Recipe
1. Put the bowl into the every ingredients.
2. Mixed all the ingredients by hand until mixed well.
3. Heated the pan until really hot then pour the little bit of oil.
4. During the time make a meat into round.
* Point is try to air out, so have to throw hand to hand. Between hand need just 5cm. Otherwise the patty is goes somewhere else.
5. After heated the pan, the patty on the pan.
6. pour little bit of water into the pan.
7. Put the lid on the pan, then wait until the bottom is become brown.
8. Then flip over the patty and wait until become brown.
9. Serve the hamburger steak on the dish.
10. Pour the tomato sauce and tonkatsu sauce into the pan, the heated a little bit. (Don't wash the pan.)
**Tonkatsu sauce is Japanese special sauce for deep fried pork.(Colour is brown. If you know the Asian store, they should sell it. Just ask the staff Tonkatsu sauce or Japanese sauce for deep fried food.)
11. Pour the sauce onto the hamburger steak.
12. Enjoy your meal.

You can change a sauce. If you want to make Japanese hamburger steak, pour the soy sauce instead of tomato sauce and tonkatsu sauce. And grate the daikon (Japanese radish) into the sause or just put on the hamburger steak.

-Funny-

I found an interesting grape tomato.
I don't know what did it happen this and how did it grow.
It's so cute.

Title: 'Hello, I'm tomato boy'
Date: 08/08/09
Location: Home

Last photos in Australia

Great time in Australia

Those two photos are when I went to Paddington. It was gorgeous day to take photos and walk.


This is one of my favourite scene from top of the hill.


I don't know what is this flower, but it was so pretty. I liked it.

This is my favourite cake called 'Pavlova'.

Australian traditional cake. It was really yummy.


I really appriciated who I met people and who helped me alot.
This time was only seven months and my few dreams were not come true, but maybe next time...
Now I've already decided to go back again to study Childcare. It will take few years to dream comes true. I really want to achieve this my dream, so I have to be strong and work hard...
My farther aim is living in Australia longer or forever. I don't know how long does it take, but I really want to do, becasue it's my dream. If I hope strongly, it will come true. I really believe this. There are lots of obstructs or pains, but I'm not myself. There are many people who will help me. I am thankful for everyone.

Last trip...

-Sushine coast-


I went to see a friend in Sushine coast with my friend and had a great time.
We went to Montville in Hiterland.




My friend's house is close to beach.
We walked there with my friends's dogs and finding some shells.

-Best shot of the trip-

Title: Happy morning sun

Location: Sunshine coast (beach)

Sunshine coast has gorgeous sun and beach.

The beach is quiet just hear sound of wave.

It was morning, so there are some people and dogs, even though still calm.

I really like it. Next time in Australia I want to go again.

It's so peaceful.