Now you are seeing all of my photos on my blog have gone saying 404 errors.
I was shocked so much when I found this situation and I apology for your inconvenience.
I use an application called "blogpress" on my iPad when I write comments on my blog and I found all photos which had been uploaded through the app have gone.
Now I seek help sending mail to blogpress and if you have the same problem with me and any solution, I would like you to share it with me.
Jan 4, 2011
Jan 3, 2011
The first harvest of 2011
Before my family visit my father in law for the new year greeting I went to my garden and harvested a cabbage, daikon radish, komatunas and Chinese cabbage. I brought all of them to him as the new year present.
The cabbage is smaller than I thought but in a beautiful shape since I saw less bugs attack against the cabbages than my Chinese cabbages. I have other 8 cabbages to be harvested in a few weeks so I hope they will become bigger. That is the first cabbage I've harvested so I feel it auspicious to harvest it during the new year holidays!
-- iPadから送信
The cabbage is smaller than I thought but in a beautiful shape since I saw less bugs attack against the cabbages than my Chinese cabbages. I have other 8 cabbages to be harvested in a few weeks so I hope they will become bigger. That is the first cabbage I've harvested so I feel it auspicious to harvest it during the new year holidays!
-- iPadから送信
Jan 1, 2011
Osechi - New year feasts in lacquered boxes
Many Japanese prepare Osechi-dishes, which contain various kinds of dishes in lacquered boxes which are designed for the Osechi. My wife cooked 2 boxes of Osechi and Zoni, which is a miso soup with baked mochi and vegetables.
Osechi consists of dishes which is shown below which have auspicious meanings and we celebrate the new year's day by eating the dishes.
from above left
1 chestnut boiled with syrup. The golden color of the chestnut is associated with economic fortune.
2 black soy beans, which represents wish for health.
3 bamboo-shoots boiled with broth. Growth of bamboo-shoots upward to the sky is associated with well growth in many fields like business.
4 carrots boiled with bamboo shoots in broth. Red color of carrots is seen as auspicious color.
5 boiled arrowheads. The sprouts coming out of them is associated with growth.
6 vinegar-pickled renkons or lotus roots. Renkons have many holes which you can "see through" the other side, which literarily means seeing or predict what will happen in the future.
7 sardines cooked in say sauce. In ancient days in Japan sardine was used as a fertilizer for rice so the fish are associated with a good harvest.
8 giant butterburs boiled in say sauce and broth. Butterburs in Japanese is homonym of wealth or good fortune in Japanese.
While preparing miso soup for zoni we baked mochis with an oven toaster.
Mochi get sticky and bigger when cooked so we sometimes have a trouble in picking them up if mochis combine with others as you see in a photo shown below.
It's interesting to know that different kinds of zoni soup are preferred in different districts in Japan. In Osaka white miso soup is preferred, which is sweet and mild taste while in Tokyo fish broth.
-- iPad
Osechi consists of dishes which is shown below which have auspicious meanings and we celebrate the new year's day by eating the dishes.
from above left
1 chestnut boiled with syrup. The golden color of the chestnut is associated with economic fortune.
2 black soy beans, which represents wish for health.
3 bamboo-shoots boiled with broth. Growth of bamboo-shoots upward to the sky is associated with well growth in many fields like business.
4 carrots boiled with bamboo shoots in broth. Red color of carrots is seen as auspicious color.
5 boiled arrowheads. The sprouts coming out of them is associated with growth.
6 vinegar-pickled renkons or lotus roots. Renkons have many holes which you can "see through" the other side, which literarily means seeing or predict what will happen in the future.
7 sardines cooked in say sauce. In ancient days in Japan sardine was used as a fertilizer for rice so the fish are associated with a good harvest.
8 giant butterburs boiled in say sauce and broth. Butterburs in Japanese is homonym of wealth or good fortune in Japanese.
While preparing miso soup for zoni we baked mochis with an oven toaster.
Mochi get sticky and bigger when cooked so we sometimes have a trouble in picking them up if mochis combine with others as you see in a photo shown below.
It's interesting to know that different kinds of zoni soup are preferred in different districts in Japan. In Osaka white miso soup is preferred, which is sweet and mild taste while in Tokyo fish broth.
-- iPad
謹賀新年 - Happy new year
Happy new year, everyone! I hope the year of 2011 will be great to all of you.
I would like to start the first blog of this year by introducing how our family spending the new year holidays in Japan.
The first photos shows "Shimekazari" or a new year day's ornament to be displayed on an entrance door.
Mochi or a rice cake is one of important foods for new year holidays. We enjoy not only eating Mochi but also displaying it for celebration of a happy new year. The second photo shows " Kagami-Mochi " , one of important ornaments for the new year's day. But that mochi looks odd doesn't it? Do you think that is real?
The answer is that is a NOT real Mochi but a plastic-molded Mochi!
We used to display real mochi during new years holidays but easily get moldy so one of Mochi manufacture invented that plastic mochi and that contains smaller vacuum-packed mochis which we can deal with.
-- iPadから送信
Dec 30, 2010
Spending the last day of 2010 quietly.
Many people not only in Japan but in the world seem to have a fun in spending the last day of the year holding parties, drinking, watching movies through a night. But I usually spend the day quietly reflecting what happened in the year without watching year-end special TV programs.
But I will do some exercises avoiding weight gain because new year's feasts are waiting in new year holiday when my family and relatives will gather.
And I went to my garden today and I harvested more vegetables for my parents.
The biggest thing to me in 2010 is launching my blog on my vegetable garden. Starting the blog in June, I could know many gardeners from many countries exchanging ideas and showing my achieves through the blog.
I am very happy that my blog has gathered over 3000 accesses for about 6 months since starting my blog.
I am thinking of what I want to do in 2011 and have put the on a list
No.1: Changing layout of my planting beds for more planting space
No.2: Planting new kinds of vegetables like celeries, corianders and herbs.
What do you want to do the next year? When it comes to gardening, I will try new vegetables and cook them into delicious dishes!
Lastly, I would like to express my application for all followers and bloggers who read my blog and sent warm messages! Do-mo Arigato!
-- from iPod touch
But I will do some exercises avoiding weight gain because new year's feasts are waiting in new year holiday when my family and relatives will gather.
And I went to my garden today and I harvested more vegetables for my parents.
The biggest thing to me in 2010 is launching my blog on my vegetable garden. Starting the blog in June, I could know many gardeners from many countries exchanging ideas and showing my achieves through the blog.
I am very happy that my blog has gathered over 3000 accesses for about 6 months since starting my blog.
I am thinking of what I want to do in 2011 and have put the on a list
No.1: Changing layout of my planting beds for more planting space
No.2: Planting new kinds of vegetables like celeries, corianders and herbs.
What do you want to do the next year? When it comes to gardening, I will try new vegetables and cook them into delicious dishes!
Lastly, I would like to express my application for all followers and bloggers who read my blog and sent warm messages! Do-mo Arigato!
-- from iPod touch
Dec 26, 2010
Today's dinner
Today's dinner is hamburger steaks, which is my most favorite dish among all dishes made by my wife. I know westerners like to dip them with tomato ketchup or demiglace sauce but many Japanese including me like to use ponzu sauce ( say sauce with citrus juice ) and grated daikons.
I grated the daikon radish which I harvested and mixed it with ponzu sauce.
The sauce is so refreshing that it goes well with many oily dishes like beef steaks or grilled fish and we make the sauce whenever we eat those kinds of dishes. If you can get ponzu sauce around you, I recommend you make the sauce.
My wife made salt-pickled turnips. The recipe is just slicing turnips, soaking them with saltwater for 1 hour. If dried konbu ( dried kelps ) is available, i recommend you add it to the soaking water since delicious broth come out of the kelp.
-- from iPod touch
I grated the daikon radish which I harvested and mixed it with ponzu sauce.
The sauce is so refreshing that it goes well with many oily dishes like beef steaks or grilled fish and we make the sauce whenever we eat those kinds of dishes. If you can get ponzu sauce around you, I recommend you make the sauce.
My wife made salt-pickled turnips. The recipe is just slicing turnips, soaking them with saltwater for 1 hour. If dried konbu ( dried kelps ) is available, i recommend you add it to the soaking water since delicious broth come out of the kelp.
-- from iPod touch
Fast growth and slow growth
My komatunas in a vinyl tunnel has grown so fast that all of them can be harvested after about 30 days since setting the tunnel. In the past few days freezing cold weather continued so I was concerned if my vegetables would be frostbitten but the tunnel seem to work not only as a air warmer but as a protection against frost.
Today's harvest is just only komatunas shown above. Other vegetables like daikon radishes, Chinese cabbages but those will be consumed during new year holidays so those are preserved in my garden.
My onions are growing slowly but steadily as we can see a bulb coming out on the surface on the soil. I expect they can be harvested next spring. They are the first vegetables in my garden which will spend a cold winter till the harvest. Today I added fertilizer to give nutrition to glow onions during a winter.
How are you spending this Christmas holidays? In Japan the Christmas is not a national holiday so we have to work during the Christmas but from 30th.Dec we will have a new year holidays. I will spend the holidays eating, drinking, watching movies and caring my vegetables.
Today's harvest is just only komatunas shown above. Other vegetables like daikon radishes, Chinese cabbages but those will be consumed during new year holidays so those are preserved in my garden.
My onions are growing slowly but steadily as we can see a bulb coming out on the surface on the soil. I expect they can be harvested next spring. They are the first vegetables in my garden which will spend a cold winter till the harvest. Today I added fertilizer to give nutrition to glow onions during a winter.
How are you spending this Christmas holidays? In Japan the Christmas is not a national holiday so we have to work during the Christmas but from 30th.Dec we will have a new year holidays. I will spend the holidays eating, drinking, watching movies and caring my vegetables.
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