Here is my favorite Kappa-Ebisen!
Gen's reach is getting longer day by day. I may be witnessing Darwinian theory of evolution!?January 19, 2009
Favorite snack
Gen's reach is getting longer day by day. I may be witnessing Darwinian theory of evolution!?
January 3, 2009
New Year Party
We had a big New Year "Potluck" Party with some of our best friends.
We had KFC's juicy chicken and potatoes, kid's favorites, hand-made chesnut cake, bamboo shoot rice, some appetizer, tomato pasta and Japanese miso stew in a big pot.
We enjoyed drinking, eating and chatting, while kids were playing nicely. One of our friends is from Kenya, so we enjoyed listening to a "real" Kenyan life in the countryside, surrounded by "real" wild animals. It was so exciting.
After we finished eating and enjoying our tea break with coffee and cake, Hanna, just as the same age as our son Gen, started to fall into a half-doze in my husband's arms. She was just so sweet. That told us it was time to say good-bye.
We had KFC's juicy chicken and potatoes, kid's favorites, hand-made chesnut cake, bamboo shoot rice, some appetizer, tomato pasta and Japanese miso stew in a big pot.
We enjoyed drinking, eating and chatting, while kids were playing nicely. One of our friends is from Kenya, so we enjoyed listening to a "real" Kenyan life in the countryside, surrounded by "real" wild animals. It was so exciting.
After we finished eating and enjoying our tea break with coffee and cake, Hanna, just as the same age as our son Gen, started to fall into a half-doze in my husband's arms. She was just so sweet. That told us it was time to say good-bye.
Anyways, It was a great kick-start of the year 2009.
January 1, 2009
New Year 2009
New Year's Day is one of the most important days for us.
Very eary in the morning, my husband put a New Year's wreath on the entrance door. I heard from my grandmother that the New Year's wreath shows the God that all the family members of this house are ready to welcome you. The God is believed to celebrate the New Year's Day with us and give us a lot of blessings.
New Year's morning goes with "osechi" and "ozoni," both are New Year's feast. I cook all the "osechi" dishes every year. I used to cook with my mother and sisters. It took "millions" of hours (of course, not :) to complete osechi, but it was fun chatting and cooking together. Recently, more and more people stop cooking or just buy alreay-cooked osechi, but I do not want to lose this custom of cooking home-made osechi, however long it may take.
[part of osechi]
from the yellow one to the right: datemaki, tazunakamaboko, kurikinton, tadukuri, namasu, kazunoko, tatakigobo, kobu, and the black beans in the center, gomame
After having New Year's feast, we paid a visit to a near-by shrine, and picked a paper fortune. We asked the Shinto priest to purify our car, too.
After getting home, we enjoyed reading New Year Greeting Cards, which are just like Christmas cards for my English friends.
We had a very slow, but so peaceful New Year's Day.
I hope the Year 2009 will be filled with a lot of discoveries and happiness.
Very eary in the morning, my husband put a New Year's wreath on the entrance door. I heard from my grandmother that the New Year's wreath shows the God that all the family members of this house are ready to welcome you. The God is believed to celebrate the New Year's Day with us and give us a lot of blessings.
New Year's morning goes with "osechi" and "ozoni," both are New Year's feast. I cook all the "osechi" dishes every year. I used to cook with my mother and sisters. It took "millions" of hours (of course, not :) to complete osechi, but it was fun chatting and cooking together. Recently, more and more people stop cooking or just buy alreay-cooked osechi, but I do not want to lose this custom of cooking home-made osechi, however long it may take.
[part of osechi]
from the yellow one to the right: datemaki, tazunakamaboko, kurikinton, tadukuri, namasu, kazunoko, tatakigobo, kobu, and the black beans in the center, gomame
After having New Year's feast, we paid a visit to a near-by shrine, and picked a paper fortune. We asked the Shinto priest to purify our car, too.
After getting home, we enjoyed reading New Year Greeting Cards, which are just like Christmas cards for my English friends.
We had a very slow, but so peaceful New Year's Day.
I hope the Year 2009 will be filled with a lot of discoveries and happiness.
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