Pasta with Genovese Sauce

Easy and super yummy lunch. :-)~

Grind it by Jucer

 

Genovese sauce

I am gona make basil paste.
Olive oil. Parmesan Cheeze, Garlic, Fresh Basil and walnuts.
According to recepies for Genovese sauce, pine nuts are used instead of walnuts.
But since pine nuts is very expensive in Japan, I used walnut. instead.

Today's Lunch

Freshly harvested Basil from a yard of our office.
Can u see the green small spider is on the leaf?
Cute! 

Persimmon

Here it is.
Very sweet and jucy.

:-)~

Letter from autumn "Persimmon" (Kaki)

We got a persimmon from one of graduates of Ainou high school which is locating in a same lot of our office.
He got this from his old classmate.
These are very beautiful and tasty but can't sell to markets since it has scars or the size is out of standard.

Today it was really autumn fine day with clear light blue sky in high place.

This is the package

:-) 

Huge Senbei! (Japanese rice cracker fravored with Soya sauce)

I got this from my friend.
This huge Senbei is made in the shape of "Tora-san's face" very famous japanese movie charactor.
She was very carefull in a train to come back here not to break this.
But unfortunately its broken into 2 big pieces.
It would be fun to eat this with my friends searving hot green tea and nice chat.
Thanks Hiroko for bringing me the happy time.

Yes!!! my first Karekare in Japan!

And.... Karekare!
I cooked it with Knorr Karekare mix that Lany brought me when she came to Japan.
For all of my friends this was the first experience to taste it.
The real one is cooked with ox tail, but since its not available in super market around here, I used chicken instead.
Everyone like it.
Next time I will cook Mongo Soup with the mongo beans brought by Jun.
Also late comer brought two dishes, Pasta with basil and garlic and beans noodle salad with chinese sauce. :-)~ 

Pot luck party

We often have pot luck party with girls living around here.
Bringing one dish with one person can make our dinner real rich one with women's talk.
Today's menu in the end (No one knows what will be on the table untill we see each other)
was gingar rice, tofu salad, beans soup, potato onion stew with tuna,,,, and there are some more... 

Full bloom!!

This is how Kangkong flower looks like with its full bloom.
Really elegant and cute.
According to Jun, they are just growing in swamps or canals in rural areas of the Pilippines. Thinking of it, its amaging that they can have this tiny beautiful flower out of these muddy dirty (I guess swamps in the Phil most likely dirty) grounds.
It must give a lot of comfort to people living around there.
Another 5 buds are now waiting to be bloomed.
And now, roots are growing out of its stem.
Amagingly strong vegetable!

It bloomed

Kangkung flower bloomed.
It is tiny elegant flower.
Very cute.
This is taken day before yesterday.
After 2 days, now the second flower is about to bloom. 

This is what we ordered

I was gona take pix before we start to eat
But I fotgot about it and started to eat right after the food was brought......
at this moment, I finished one small "Kurumafu (kind of gluten) vegetalian piza" and one big bite of "Koya Dofu (frozed and dried Tofu) fried rice" 

My friend wating for food to come

 

Upstairs

This is inside the restaurant.
Cool isn't it???
Very few people, that's because we went there late after lunch.
What we wanted to eat was lunch plate, but it was alredy finished.

Tsuki no Niwa (Moon Garden)

Today, I and my friend went to a natural food restaurant "Tsuki no Niwa" (Moon Garden in English).
This place is very familier with my friends around here.
but this is my first time to come.