yesterday

Yesterday we went to buy a new computer.

The one we have was getting really slow.

I think we had it for at least 10 years.

Anyway, there was haggling…as tiring as when you buy a car.

Which meant lunch was late, which meant Kat was hangry.

This cheese saba (mackerel) burger from Rakyo saved the day.

14057

Have been going to Omori whenever we need coffee beans...yesterday, I went on one of those walks...

Passed by these two who were waiting for their mom or dad to come out of the bank..

The skies were overcast and gloomy.

This type of day bothers my eyes and I usually get a migraine afterwards...

Before going to buy our coffee beans, I went to check out Jugoya Seika.

They make karinto and have been in business since 1926!

3 bags of your choice for 1000 yen (tax included)

I purchased their sweet potato, peanut and black sugar.

They are all on the "harder" side but everything was delicious and not overly sweet.

They have a couple more varieties to try, so we'll be back.

Toyoshima Bakery...which has been in business since 1939.

I tried their croquette sandwich and cheeseburger.

Love their prices.

We'll be back.

14057...it was nice to be out but wish it hadn't been overcast.

Jugoya Seika

3-4-16 Omorikita

Ota, Tokyo

Phone: 0339761.5153

Hours: 10:00-18:00

*call before going, closed days are not consistent

Toyoshima Bakery

1-35-5 Omorikita

Ota, Tokyo

Phone: 03.3761.1471

Closed Saturdays & Sundays

Hours: 6:30-18:30

and then there was...

I told you about Wordle...well, my friend Sheri told me about Quordle.

You do 4 wordle type puzzles at once! you only have 9 tries to get all 4 puzzles...

What letters you use for 1 puzzle might help you solve the others...krazy!

And then my IG friend Teri, told me about the Japanese version of Wordle.

You have 80 characters to guess from to make a daily 5 character hiragana word....even krazier.

BUT, you have unlimited guesses.

This is how I'm keeping busy, I guess....
 

valentine’s

Happy Valentine’s!

We had sleet last night other areas had snow.

Melted some chocolate on our pancakes this morning. (Satoshi's is the one above)

Hope you have a sweet day.

this and that

Enlarge the photo so you can see his foot "waving"....I can't remember if the engine was on to keep him warm while he was sleeping...
 

Reconnected with honey toast...

I made this for our snack on Tuesday...toasted the bread and caramelized some apples then topped it with vanilla ice cream.

It was the first time Satoshi had this and he enjoyed it.

Love the look of this old skool barber shop in our neighborhood.

Yesterday we had sleet, rain and some snow.

We prepared so we didn’t need to go out.

I think Mother Nature was telling everyone to “stay at home”

This week, Tokyo’s daily case numbers ranged from 12,211 and 21,122.

Today is a national holiday, but we plan to stay in, we’ll need to stock up on food tomorrow because there is snow forecast for Monday.

Have a safe weekend.

another year

Monday marked another krazy year around the sun, but am thankful just to be able to celebrate it.

My host-mom in Kobe sent me these cookies from Freundlieb (thank you!)

I miss this cafe! actually miss just being able to hang out anywhere…

Host-sister, T, sent me French chocolates and biscuits (cookies)...thank you!

I went to Jiyugaoka to order something for my host-mom's birthday which is coming up next week.

Before coming home, I stopped in at Comme'N, a bakery that I've been wanting to check out.

He trained under the chef at Ça Marche, a favorite bakery of mine in Kobe.

Then opened a small bakery in Takasaki, Gunma.

In 2019, his team won the Mondial du Pain contest in France and in 2020 he opened Comme'N, near Jiyugaoka.

We tried the cream cheese cranberry raisin, proscuitto camembert (and butter), hot dog and cake brioche.

Everything was delicious.

The cream cheese cranberry raisin had a huge piece of cream cheese in the middle...yum!

The hot dog had cheese and some sauerkraut. The sausage was herby..so good!

The proscuitto camembert surprised me...I toasted it before eating and realized there was lots of butter in it when I bit into it and it started dripping profusely...love!

I couldn’t let the melted butter go to waste and used the cake brioche to mop it up…

The cake brioche was light almost fluffy and I loved the caramelized walnuts on top.

They have x-ray cash registers, so when the tray of baked goods is placed on the scanner, the prices and names of the items pop up on the register screen (so there are no mistakes!)

What was also nice is they messaged me and thanked me for posting on Instagram.

Love their business cards, it looks like those tags that they use on bread bags...I'll be back whenever I'm nearby.

Yamato Nadeshiko from Satoshi, a delicate carnation with a slightly spicy fragrance.

Dinner was meyer lemon chicken...I sprinkled some lemon garlic seasoning then cooked the chicken in a pan with some olive oil.

When the chicken was almost cooked through, I added slices of meyer lemon to caramelize in the pan...delicious!

Thanks for today.

Comme'N

7-18-5 Okusawa

Setagaya, Tokyo

Phone: 03.6432.1061

Closed Tuesdays & Wednesdays

Hours: 7:00-18:00

p.s. Over the weekend, I found these huge meyer lemons at the market that were grown in Mie Prefecture...2 were 198 yen (plus tax)....and have been using them in cooking or as a condiment.

hiroshi

Hiroshi is made by Mishima, the same company that makes Yukari (the red shiso mix) and is short for Hiroshima-na, a green veggie similar to chinese cabbage grown in Hiroshima.

I recently stumbled upon this mix at the 100 yen store.

Just mix a teaspoon with 1 chawan bowl of rice and let the steam of your rice reconstitute the greens.

I made musubi for our breakfast with bubu arare, sesame seeds and this hiroshi.

Delicious.

I would buy this again.