this and that

This room with huge windows, is part of a condo, I actually saw someone walking around in there!

Must be warm in the winter and oven-ish in the summer
 

Parking skills

Tokyo People: tofu maker

Tokyo furry people: keeping warm

cute mail box

Not sure what was in the round wooden container, but thought it looked neat on the back of the moped

We tried Okita Seimai's sekihan, delicious!

The beef stew from Frou Frou surprised me, look at those big chunks of meat!

This time instead of mashed potato there was just a slice of potato in there.

The stew went nicely with the wine that V gave us...thank you!

chikin mu, love saying it....is the tiny white cubes of pickled daikon that they sell at k-sozai 298 yen (tax included)

The yangnyeom chicken on this day was not as good as before…boo

when you don't read the recipe correctly...prepare to fail....that is what happened when I tried to make these oyaki from the imoya kinjiro pamphlet…dunno that I would try it again though, was kinda p.i.t.a.

cano's

Been trying to try Cano's sweets, but every time I go past they aren't open or they have already sold out.

This past Saturday, we were lucky to go past while they were open and had items to try!
 

Salted Caramel Custard : this was delicious, the salted caramel was a little on the bitter side and balanced out the sweet custard…360 yen (tax included)

Chocolate Terrine : this was dense, rich and chocolatey…490 yen (tax included)

Nama Chocolate Chiffon Cake : the chocolate chiffon was light and  was filled with chocolate whipped cream and some ganache at the bottom…650 yen (tax included)

I'm glad we got to try these and look forward to trying some of their other items in the future.

we shared everything...Plated for our dessert the other night

Cano's 

6-6-8 Ikegami

Ota, Tokyo

Open: Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Saturdays

Hours: 12:00-17:00 (earlier if they sell out)

back to hebikubo shrine

This past Saturday, we went back to Hebikubo Shrine after Satoshi's dental appointment.

The line was long but not as krazy long as the week before.
 

Apparently there were a lot of snakes in this area before so the area was called Hebimura (snake village)

The area to wash your hands was decorated with all sorts of chrysanthemums

Floral display at the main temple

Snakes to "pet"…touch different parts of the snake’s body to take different sicknesses away on your body and to also protect different areas of your body from sickness

Near the waterfall, points if you can see the snake like rock.

Close up of it..looked real!

Satoshi usually cannot look at snakes, not even the ones on tv or in magazines!

We were glad that the line wasn't too krazy when we went and hope the Year of the Snake will be a good one.

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Went to Nihonbashi on Thursday.

I wanted to check out the new biscuit shop that Alain Ducasse opened 

In Europe, cookies are known as biscuits. I think in French they are called sables

I purchased the Tablette Biscuit, Graines & chocolat.

The biscuit is chocolate, like a shortbread and has different seeds in it (flax, pumpkin, sunflower) and is covered with 75% chocolate on one side, a little dry and not sweet, love this

They were so nice to wrap up some samples of their other biscuits...Pur Beurre (pure butter), Palet Fin Noisette (hazelnut covered with chocolate) and Biscuit Sarasin (buckwheat)...the two without chocolate are savory, all would be nice with wine.

I also went next door to the chocolate shop and purchased the 75% Mendiant Pistaches Sablees (chopped pistachios)

The pistachios are not chopped, so delicious!

Bummed that the chocolat staff that offered me a sample didn’t wrap it up for me like the biscuit staff did…(I didn’t want to take off my mask to taste the sample.)

And then I walked about 5 minutes to Bakery Bank.

I purchased their curry pan, this was wonderful! Still crispy even after bringing it home!

It was filled to the gills with curry, a little spicy, chunks of meat, even a little crunch from some fukujinzuke, would get this one again.

I also tried their cinnamon roll! this was delicious too.

A little different from most cinnamon rolls, this was flaky and cinnamon-y!

For dinner, I also purchased  their pate sandwich, so I could have it with some wine.

It was cloudy all day and the wind was super fahreezing, but I was glad to be out and about.

this and that

Remember the bacon cheese bagel I put into the freezer?

Well, I think I figured out why the filling was skimpy

It's because the filling seemed to be all on one side of the bagel especially for this bacon cheese bagel, so depending on how I cut the other one, I probably took the side that didn't have much filling.

Leftover demi glace sauce from Frou Frou is good on scrambled eggs.

Tokyo People: drinking coffee outside the convenience store

It was Seijin no hi (Coming of Age) and a holiday for us on Monday.

It was nice to see the "girls" dressed in kimono.

This year black and white kimono were trending, I enjoyed seeing the more vibrant (festive) colored kimono 

For our anniversary I bought these oeuf purin (egg custard)

Oeuf in French means egg

It comes in this egg carton and the custard are in egg shells! so cute!

I bought the plain and strawberry, both were delicious!

Since our anniversary was on a weekday and Satoshi had German class, I bought some chirashi for our dinner from Sacana Bacca

Satoshi's chirashi was larger.

Flowers from Satoshi, ranunculus & carnation

The pink house that was demolished last year, a new one was built in its place, I like their huge windows.

The temperature went up to March temps for a day and then Mother Nature slammed us back to fahreezing.

The weather dude says that summer is gonna be longer...like starting from April?! until November...if that's true, I'm so sad!

Hope you have a safe weekend.

oxymoron

Tried Oxymoron's Ethnic Soboro Curry the other night.

We tried Oxymoron when we were in Osaka, their main shop is in Kamakura and they also have one in Tokyo.

And we've tried their caponata , spice cereal and caramel custard recipes from their recipe books.

The Tokyo department store they are located in is renovating, so they are only selling takeout these days.

The fish sauce and the greens are chinese parsley, shiso, green onion and mizuna made this fragrant

Just heat up the rice and soboro (minced meat) and sprinkle the greens, squeeze the lemon and enjoy!

Would get this again, and look forward to eating at the restaurant when the renovations are over.

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Grateful for all the adventures, looking forward to the new ones. 

Appreciate you always putting up with me.

Love you