Our Adventures in Japan

Thursday night's dinner...started off with making "furikake", a topping for rice. This was daikon greens and jakko (dried sm...

The other week I picked this bell pepper, it was still really small but it looked like it may have been diseased (I could be wrong), so I t...

Friday night, Satoshi had a party with his university baseball team as well as other university baseball teams. Every year it is quite a l...

There was something neat that we found in Kanazawa...utsuwa chazuke. Utsuwa means bowl/dish and chazuke is cooked rice with green tea poured...

Last Thursday, I met up with my friend Kazumi and she took me up to Nose (pronounced no-say). This area has a lot of farms, I think there is...

Well, the weather has turned wintry overnight. I think the temperature dropped 5 degrees yesterday. The blustery winds didn't help eit...

Today is Umi no hi (Ocean Day). It is a national holiday and Satoshi has the day off. It has been raining with lightning and VERY LOUD thund...