Pork Ginger served with lettuce.
They say in Japan, the wife holds the power because she holds the wallet. This is true, but what truly makes her powerful is her power to make (or not make) your lunch bento! So, if you want to yield more power at home learn some bento recipes from me! (Of course, holding the wallet will help a lot too!)
Ginger Pork is one good (and very quick to prepare)dish for Bento (lunch box). It can be Donburi, if you put it on top of rice! For this meal however, we had it at home so I can’t show you (yet) how to arrange it for bento. Basically, bento meals must be quick to make (depending on how early you get up in the morning). Continue reading →
Posted in: Asawa's Recipes, Food.
Tagged: ginger · pork · recipe
Choppy Mitoma (Click for larger photo)
I have been to Mitoma once, during Autumn and saw some decent waves and a LOT of (though more on the small choppy category) and a LOT of surfers. It is on the eastern part of Fukuoka, passed Island City. I did not have chance to return since then until one winter day in December. I checked out the forecast and saw a 6 foot swell heading towards Mitoma so I decided to go catch the train going there and check it out (and perhaps brave it out there with a wetsuit if things seemed tempting enough.) It was blown out and empty (I guess I forgot to check the wind in the forecast) so I just enjoyed the view of the eerily empty beach and returned to the highway to walkfurther north east to check out a spot I read about in a map, Shingu. It was a train station (of the same name) away from Mitoma but I decided to walk there instead.
A-Frame Shingu: Its hard to tell from the photo the size of the waves without juxta-positioning it, but those were about shoulder to head high waves. The dark thing where the waves crash is a breaker that spits out nice sets.
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Posted in: Day Trips, Surf.
Tagged: beach · mitoma · shingu · Surf
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Dried Tofu (高野豆腐、凍り豆腐 Koya-dofu/ Koori-dofu) is very healthy and nutritious. There are many ways of cooking this. Today, I made Agedashi-dofu (fried tofu with dashi sauce) using this dried tofu. It is easy but delicious tofu recipe! It is also good as a side dish for beer or sake! Continue reading →
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Tagged: agedashi · recipe · tofu
Tsutomu Yamaguchu (1916-2010)
On 4 January 2009, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, one of the few people to have experienced the Atomic bomb both in Hiroshima and Nagasaki died of stomach cancer.
August 6, 1945 was his last day of work in Hiroshima and was he was about to board the tram heading to his hometown when the first atomic bomb detonated 3 kilometers away from where he was. The fallout severely burned the left side of the top half of his body, destroyed his eardrums and blinded him temporarily. He spent the night recuperating in an air raid shelter before returning the next day to his hometown, Nagasaki. As he was telling the tales of the horrors he had seen in Hiroshima, another atomic bomb was dropped in Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. We was also 3 kilometers away from the epicenter. Continue reading →
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Tagged: hiroshima · nagasaki · tsutomu · yamaguchi
