Wednesday, March 15, 2006

new bag

After two (brrr) freezing days of rain and flurries, the sun is back! (yeah!!) I spent most of the morning between several loads of laundry and making a new bag.

I ran into a few problems and the bag didn't come out as the book pictured. (Guess I'll have to try it again!) But, I think it will serve its purpose. When we moved to Japan 5 years ago, I hadn't sewed since home economics class in intermediate school, still, I had Satoshi buy me a sewing machine.

Besides food, another thing I love is BAGS, so I figured instead of buying them, I would try to make them. Since then, I have made my own tote bags which I use when grocery shopping. At the grocery stores, they give you extra points on your point card for using your own bag not using their plastic bags.

And we often take these totes with us on our trips or when galavanting around Osaka, they fold up nicely and come in handy especially when we need another bag to bring home our souvenirs or purchases.

In a couple of days, it will be St. Patrick's Day. At home, my mom usually cooks fresh corned beef with cabbage, carrots and potatoes. Since I couldn't find fresh corned beef in our markets, I decided to use canned corned beef and made another dish which we have in Hawaii....Corned beef and cabbage.

There are two ways that my family has this dish. One is with salt and pepper. The other is with shoyu (soy sauce) and sugar (we say shoyu-sugar or satojyoyu). I decided to make it the shoyu-sugar way.

Ingredients
1 can corned beef
1 onion
1 cabbage

1T sugar
1T shoyu

Cut cabbage into bite sized pieces, slice onions
Cook in a non-stick pan
After cabbage and onions slightly wilt, add corned beef
When everything is mixed and heated, add the shoyu and sugar.

An easy dish for busy people!
Enjoy! and Happy St. Patty's Day!

13 comments:

bourgogne said...

your post today looks like you have hawaii on your mind! very cute bag.

Anonymous said...

Great looking bag!!! Well done Kat
I am like you, I don;t count the number of bags I own now ;-)

K and S said...

Hi Bourgogne,

I do...will be going to Hawaii next week!

Hi Bea,

I'm glad no one has meme'd me about how many bags I have (hee hee)

Thanks for your nice comments you two!

Kat & Satoshi

Anonymous said...

The bag looks lovely to me, Kat!

Perfect for spring ... !

K and S said...

Thank you, Ivonne!

Kat & Satoshi

Anonymous said...

Gorgeous bag, for both Hawaii and spring!! :D

K and S said...

thank you for your kind comment TM!

Kat & Satoshi

bourgogne said...

omg i wish i could go with you! i hope you have a wonderful time (just in case i forget to say that before you leave) :)

i bet it's so nice right now in hawaii (as i shiver here with our 34 degrees today :() will you blog from there? i hope you can do some hawaiian food posts. will you go to eggs n things? do they still have the wisteria cafe? can you tell? i miss hawaii!

K and S said...

Hi Bourgogne,

Thanks! Will try to post from Hawaii. Although my parents only have dial-up, so it may be hard to...Anywho, Wisteria cafe closed down last year (I think it was) Hope to share with you some of Hawaii.

BTW, if you want a cool Hawaii blog to check out, check out "ono kine grindz".

Take care.

Kat & Satoshi

Anonymous said...

Hi Kat,

I'm glad you'll be coming home next week. Sorry to let you know that the forecast is rain. We have been having rain for three weeks now. Kauai was flooded. 6 people are still missing. Some homes were washed away. A dam broke now we're all paranoid about the dams here. First it was boulders, now its dams. Your bag is really cute. I wish I had time to sew. I have so many projects...so little time. Maybe I'll get to see you while you're here.

Susette

K and S said...

Hi Susette,

I saw on the Honolulu Advertiser's website about the flooding in Kauai and your area. It is so terrible.

I hope we can get together too while I'm in Hawaii.

Take care.

Kat & Satoshi

bourgogne said...

looks fun. thanks for the link. of course, i've been trying to shave down my feeds in my rss reader but that seems to be impossible. :)

K and S said...

Hi Bourgogne,

I know, I know...but the blog world is definitely endless. :)

Kat & Satoshi