yesterday

Usually, when I wake up, I go to the other room to check on the sunrise, which I can see from the window that faces Haneda Airport....this is how it looked yesterday.

And then from the kitchen, I looked out the window that faces Mount Fuji and caught a glimpse of a rainbow.

Excited to see part of a rainbow, especially early in the morning, I put on my slippers and went out onto the lanai.

And saw this instead...

It was my first time to see a rainbow in Japan so close and so arced!

Amazing yeah?!

pi-chee

Recently learned of this combo called pi-chee (peachy).

In Japanese, bell pepper is called piman (pee-mahn)...chee comes from cheese.

The bell peppers here are teeny.

Cut the bell pepper in half lengthwise and clean.

Fill with cheese then wrap with a thin slice of pork belly.

The way pork belly is sold, actually meat in general, is that everything is put into styrofoam trays so a lot of times you can't tell how long the piece of meat is, or how many pieces there are..which is why the pork belly I bought for this was too short...boo!

Salt and pepper to taste.

Cook for 4 minutes on low in a non-stick pan and flip over and cook for another 4 minutes.

Not really a recipe, yeah?!

NOTES: If possible, try to make sure there are no holes when wrapping the pork or your pi-cheese's cheese will leak out into the pan like mine did.

Also, when eating, be careful as everything inside the bell pepper is super hot!

I'm glad I tried this, it was easy and delicious.

I'll make this again.
 

new month new things

 Autumn is here...

The mornings and evenings are cooler, and no humidity...

Fragrance of kinmokusei is in the air.

Yesterday was the Harvest Moon.

The weather dude had mentioned we might not be able to see it because of clouds, but

I saw it as the sun set, it was pinkish and as the moon went to bed the next morning, just before making Satoshi's bento.

Yesterday, I found a butternut squash at the market...teeny, yeah?!

Actually I'm glad it was small, my oven isn't that big...

Roasted and sprinkled with furikake & everything but the bagel seasoning because I couldn't decide which to season the squash with...ha!

Tokyo is now allowed to participate in the "Go To Campaign", be prepared to see Japan's numbers go up...

One of the things the experts in Japan are telling us to do is that when eating out (whether inside or outside), is to eat, put your mask back on, then talk...the experts feel this is what a lot of people are not doing so, so they may be contracting the virus this way.

Acrylic partitions and plastic sheets are all the rage here too...between tables, diners, around cashiers...

Since that is no fun, we will continue to take out instead of eat out...

Hope you are staying safe and keeping zen.

Have a good weekend.

kakumei burger

Kakumei Burger opened sometime late last year.

I finally got around to trying them.

I ordered their avocado cheeseburger.

This comes with fries or obanzai.

Obanzai are little veggie side dishes.

The fries were okay after the walk home, next time I'm going to try their obanzai instead.
 

The burger was juicy (no fillers) with lots of cheese and avocado.

There are other items on their menu I want to try, I'll be back.

Kakumei Burger

7-10-10 Kamata

Ota, Tokyo

Phone: 080.7134.7875

Closed Tuesdays

Hours: 11:00-15:00 (lunch), 18:00-22:00 (dinner)

vote

Excited to receive my absentee ballot yesterday!

Will vote and try to send it out sometime this week because I am not sure if the postal service is still wonky or not.

I hope my ballot gets to Hawaii on time.

A friend on IG (Instagram) mentioned that many overseas ballots were being thrown away...hoping this isn't true.

Vote people...
 

shine muscat & queen nina

In the past we've tried Shine Muscat grapes (green).

Recently we got to try Queen Nina (red-pink).

Queen Nina's outer flesh is quite tough, so it needs to be peeled.

Shine Muscat's outer flesh is tender and the whole thing can be eaten.

Both do not have seeds and are super sweet.

I'm glad we got to try both.

we're 15

Who would have thought this blog would turn 15?!

This year has been, well...

Still, we are thankful for our health, a roof over our heads, enough to eat and that Satoshi still has a job.

We haven't been exploring, nor eating out (well, just that one time back in June).

Instead we have been taking out or cooking at home.

If you are still reading our little blog, I thank YOU.

I appreciate you being a part of our adventures.

Hopefully next year will be a better one for everyone.