Recipe collection vol.4 ( Fried chickens with minced green perilla )

 Some of green perilla (green shiso/紫蘇） have grown so I tried to use some leaves of them for a dish for today's dinner. Perilla's leaves may remind you of some recipes like sushi rolled in the leaves or condiment for salad dressings because of its good aroma.

 I also wanted to make the use of the aroma so I tried to mix minced perilla's leaves with seasoning for fried chicken.




Fried chickens with minced perilla's leaves (for 4 people)
Ingredients:
・ Chopped chicken (300grams/11oz)・ 6 green perilla's leaves・ A spoon of salt, say-sauce, sake or white-wine・ Grated garlic and ginger

Method
1 Mince all perilla's leaves.

2 Pour say-sauce, salt, sake, grated garlic and ginger and minced perilla's leaves into chopped chickens and mix them up.


3 Coat the chopped chickens with fry butter and fry them deeply.



4 Serve them on a plate and let's dig in!



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My tomatoes with disease (Bacterial Wilt Disease)

I found today my tomatoes which were planted in a plastic planter seemed to have some problem.
As the photos show, most of the leaves have become shabby and vigorless.

I believe my tomatoes have been infected with Bacterial Wilt Disease.

I'm very shocked when I found the fact but I know what I have to do for avoiding further infection.
I immediately removed the plastic planter out of my garden. Many young tomato fruits were on the trees but I had to throw them way......






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Summer vegetable's fruits

A bunch of tomatoes.
It seems to take a few weeks to be harvested...

My green beans (Phaseolus vulgaris l) 
We harvested some of them and grilled  with say sauce.

Now it's the best time when my mature egg-plants is harvested!
We saw many flowers and small fruits on the trees so we can enjoy them
for nest a few months!

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Growth of my black chili

I know some bloggers are waiting for the update on my black chili's growth.
It's been hot and sunny days with no rain shower in the past few days and the weather seems to boost the growth of my vegetables including my black chili.


About 15 flowers are found in the trees with other many buds.


Some fruits are so perfectly formed that we can see what they are at a glance.


I thought the color of the chili was black and it was introduced as "black chili" but I found the actual color was not black but very deep purple when I looked at them closer. Should I call them "Purple chili"?



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Harvesting all of my potatoes

As I said in my previous blog, we are in the mid of a rainy season starting from the mid of May and have less opportunity to harvest my potatoes. But I found it was cloudy in the morning and rainfall was not forecasted so I saw it the last chance to dig out all of my potatoes.

Digging out potatoes for short time requires more manpower. I could get help of my wife and daughter today. Thanks to their help, we could managed to finish harvesting all of them despite scattered shower, fortunately not heavy.


I had some extra seed potatoes after seeding in my garden so I planted them in a plastic planter.


That sounded experimental to me and I wondered if they could grow in the tiny space but we got 10 potatoes! That is a discovery which shows a potato can be grown in a planter.


All of harvested potatoes are dried and preserved in a balcony of my house.



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Harvesting in a rainy day

 I had a plan to harvest all of my potatoes today but seasonal rain (梅雨/Tsuyu) didn't allow me to do that and I had to wrap up today's work in my garden with harvesting just 5 cucumbers.
 I get worried about my potatoes in soil because if they are left in soil with a lot of water, they can be easily rotten or infected with disease.


 I believe the best way to enjoy taste of fresh vegetables is eating sliced or cut ones with simple seasoning like "cucumber-sticks" with mayonnaise. Now I'm drinking highball and the cucumber-sticks go well with sparkling alcohol....





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Harvesting potatoes.

Today I and my wife harvested potatoes in my garden while the weather was good in our place. Digging potatoes in soil is like a treasure hunting and we were excited with searching for big ones.


Although we had to suspend today's harvesting due to scattered rain, about 20 potatoes were dug out and some of them are as big as my fist. Those potatoes were found under only a few potato trees so we can expect more and bigger potatoes can be harvested this weekend from the rest of 15 potato trees. I can imagine my kids will be also excited digging them out!


-- from iPad