I changed the template

I changed the color of my blog into more autumn like one.
No reason for the change I just wanted to kill my time.
I have many docs to read through tonight but I just don't feel like to do.
So I was looking for something to do...
Btw, it's soooooo cold here now. It's like living in a ref.
I am freezing in a Kotatsu table heater in my room.
I don't know if I can survive cold winter here. I wana fly back to warm tropical Philippines.
How are you my dear people there?
Seeing people in asiadhrra office having birthday party through webcom I have been missing the place, people, shopping in Lobinson, riding on jeeps, tricycles, our house, having good dinner with Lan and Jet and everything in the Philippines.
Miss you all.....

Kiji Nabe (Pheasant Nabe)

This is Nabe.
The soup is made of Fish soup as the base, Soysaurce, Sweet alcohol (Mirin), Sake, little Salt and Kimchi. Also we put ginger coz the bird's meat was a bit smelly.
And veges like chinese cabbage, carrot, green onion, Tofu and Kiji (Pheasant). Mashroom is also good to put.

We decided to eat outside.
The menu is "Nabe"
Typical Japanese food in winter season. 

Today's Lunch... I feel a bit sorry to this pity bird...

A guy brought this wild bird (Kiji/Pheasant) to us today. This bird hit front window of his car when he was driving. He was happy with this unexpected gift from the sky.

Funky Mohican Caterpillar!

Today, I was helping my friend taking beans' pods out of it's branches. And found this funky strange looking caterpillar. According to my friend who are specialist of insects this has poison. and it would give you itch once you touch it. 

Trick or Treat!

Students here visited my house to get some sweets. Trick or Treat! 

Don't steal my chinesae cabbage!!

And today, I found another caterpillae again eating my vege.....
See, now it's sooo lacy. :-( 

Last night, I found two caterpillars inside a chinese cabbage.
Since I bought it 2 days ago, they have been eating it!!!! It would be nothing if I found them late.

If you were a Japanese.....

If you were a Japanese, when you see this picture, your mouth will be filled with saliva.
This is Japanese traditional pickles "Umeboshi" made of plum. Tastes super sour and salty so that when japanese see this pickles saliva automatically coming out. It's a logic of Pablov's dog. :D
and this is 30years old Umeboshi!!!!!! almost same age as me!

He is the one who made the tasty potatoes!

He have been making sweet potatoes for around 60 years. (now he is 78 years old and still farmimng) The variety that he is holding was so tasty. tasted like chesnuts. Also I liked him very much and had goodo time chatting and having tea with him. 

Doesn't this look yammy? 

It's done! 

We cooked it at once to tell him how it tastes. Old lady working here for long time cooked with also very old pan.
She put a little amount of water with potatoes, and after a while, she put the pan upside down! I haven't seen this way of cooking. 

Autumn visited us.

Today, an old farmer who are mainly making sweet potatoes visited us with his potatoes. According to a old staff, he visits our office only one day a year in autumn season without notice and with a lot of potatoes that he just harvested. It's like a annual letter from Autumn.

Ninja Victor Dog.

On the way back, we doropped by a instrument shop.
In front of the shop, there was a "Victor Dog" wearing like Ninja.
This town is famous for Ninja. In the old days. it was a town where many real Ninja existed.
I can see the Victor Dogs sometimes in front of old local record shops, but this was my first time to see them wearing like Ninja! I liked it! :-D Btw, why does he look so sad......
(Victor Dog is a image charactor of Japanese record company "Victor". The dog is getting to be a kind of antique nowadays.)

There were also pottery exhbition going on. Although I found some potteries that i really liked, It was out of my reach. 

Having coffee with Maruchan. She is a good adviser for my work especially when I am lost.

I found a nice cozy cafe

Can you imagine the smell of fresh wood? it's all around.

Next dish after the grasshopper is something universally tasty :-)

Here it is!

I cooked white source pampkin doria.
Fry onion and mushroom with butter and put white source and already boiled sliced Pumpkin.
Put cooked rice in a plate and pour the source on it.
Lastly put much cheese on top and grill it with oven!

Grasshoppers for eating!!!!!!!!

This was sent to our boss from his mother.
This is rural food in Japan. I hadn't eaten this before untill this time. Taste was.... Ok.
If I can completely forget that this is grasshoppers, I probably say "taste good!"

Do you know this???

This is cloth made sanitary napkins for women. I and my friends had an exhibition when Ainou organic agriculture high school locating inside the same lot where I am working and living in had it's school fes. I have been using this for more than 3 years. When I knew about this 3 years ago, it was a kind of "Shock!!!". I hadn't thought of alternatives of chemical paper napkins. And I couldn't believe that these cloth one works enough. But in fact, it's really comforrtable and touches are soft, warm and nice. Also no chemical wastes and very safe for our body.

Don't you think these are cute? compare to 3 years ago, It's getting to be diversified, functional and cute. Now cloth napkin is getting popular in Japan little by little. But still minor, so people passing by were very much surprised and curious. I usually buy them through internet. May be you also can find them through internet.

In the end of the day, we had a party in my house.
It was curry party. we cooked two kinds of curry. BUt not only curry because some people bring some dishes with them. 

Persimmon Tea Making 3

It was much tastier than we expected.
It's containing a lot of Vitamin C.
It is such a rich life if we can make things we need in dairy life by ourselves and share it with others.

Persimmon Tea Making 2

Steam leaves 2-3 minutes,
chop,
and roast untill it gets completely dry.
(according to a book, it should be somewhat naturally dried up and then roasted with fire. since we wanted to taste right away, we skipped the process. )

Persimmon Tea Making!

Also we made harval tea out of this persimmon leaves