Our Adventures in Japan

Saturday after Satoshi's German class we flew to Tokyo. Up above the clouds the weather was pretty wonderful, sunny and blue skies. ...

We just got back from a mini-travel weekend...here's a preview of how our weekend went (sort of)... Will sort through photos and write...

It's that time of year for Hanashobu (Iris). I walked through Suigetsu Park on Friday and despite it being very overcast, there were m...

Way back, I wrote about keeping cool using glass dishes... here . Well, I took out our Ryukyu glasses for summer (Ryukyu is another name f...

The other day, our area started rainy season. We were actually lucky because on the same day, the people in Shikoku also started their rai...

I recently tried a new recipe by Smitten Kitchen . I didn't roast the garbanzos, in fact I left these out. I just made the dressing ...

Tried cooking quinoa (keen-wah) for the first time recently. It takes awhile, I think longer than it does to cook couscous. I served thi...