home again

Satoshi came home safely and brought home several omiyage (souvenirs) for me--one was Furaibo, a fried chicken that is dipped in a sauce which is quite famous in Nagoya, chocolate chip cookies from Saipan and the biggest omiyage--his dirty laundry. You should have seen him, wheel in his suitcase and say, "I brought a big omiyage home for you"...I quickly said, "I don't want it"...

Later, we had a bit of a scare...as I was cooking dinner, I had put some veggies to roast in the oven, at the same time, the rice was cooking...all of a sudden the oven clicked off. Oh no! don't tell me we need to buy a new oven (although inside I was kind of hoping we needed to).

We pulled the plug, put it back in, checked the manual...it was looking like we needed a new one (yeah!). Then, I opened the refrig, hmmm, the light was off, but the sink and stove areas were still lit. I went to look at the breaker box and sure enough, the refrig breaker was off. I asked Satoshi to click it back on and the oven worked, the refrig light went on. But the rice was cooked half way...I had to take out the rice cooker manual to see what we could do, it turned out we had to re-cook the rice.

Even though the rice turned out a bit dry, it was still edible and at least we won't have to buy a new oven (although I still want a new one...)

Have a great weekend!