前回の晩ご飯作りは、
かぼちゃスープを失敗（食べられない状態）し、
時間通りに晩ご飯を用意出来なくて、
かなりへこんだ

その失敗を意識して、
今回の晩ご飯を特別頑張ったわけではないけど、
いつもと違うカレーにしようという事で、
カレー４種類にナンをつけました





ナンでかっ

もちろん手作り
ホームベーカリーがないから、１５分くらい捏ねたよ
カレーは左から（分かりにくいけど）、
チリパウダーのきいた豆カレー、ピリ辛チキンカレー、
なすカレー、甘口のかぼちゃカレー

自分で言うのもなんやけど、
ナンはふっかふかで、
それぞれ違うカレーの味に大満足
ナンはCOOKPADのレシピを見て作りました

思い返せば、ナンを始めて知ったのは小学校の給食
普段出てくるコッペパンとかなんも包装されてないのに、
ナンの時だけは丁寧に一枚一枚真空で包装されてたの覚えてるわ
コッペパンの時は１人２個もらえるのに、
ナンは一人一枚で１学期に１回ぐらいのペースでしか出てこなかったから、
本当に貴重なメニューやったなぁ

あれから８年。
今では好きな時に好きなだけナンを自分の手で作れる
成長したねぇ　笑

今回の晩ご飯作りは大成功で終わってよかった
またここで失敗してたら、もう晩ご飯作る気力無くなってたよ

The previous dinner,
I made a non-edible pumpkin soup,
and couldn't finish all the menus I was planning,
in time so I really felt down about it.

I didn't make today's dinner,
being deliberate about the mistakes I made before,
but I made it special.
4 different taste of curry and nan bread.

Of course the nan bread is handmade.
I don't have a home bakery machine at our home so I had to knead it for 15 minutes.
From the left, the curry tastes,
Chili flavored bean curry, spicy chicken curry,
Eggplant curry and a mild taste pumpkin curry.

Saying this for myself is a little pompous,
but the nan bread was really soft,
and the curry all had individual tastes that were very satisfying.
The recipe for the nan bread is from COOKPAD.

Recalling my memories,
my first time I got to know the nan bread,
was from the lunch menu in elementary school.
I remember that the bread roll (standard menu) had no packaging,
but the nan was carefully vacuum packaged.
Compared to 2 bread rolls distributed per student,
nan breads' were only distributed 1 per student.
And since nan breads' only came once each semester,
it was a very precious menu.

8 years has passed by,
and now I can make nan breads' any time as much as I want.
Yes, I've grown up.

It was great that I've been able to make success in making today's dinner,
cause if not ,
my spirit of making dinner would have gone weaker than ever before.

昨日は本当に朝からいい天気やったなぁ

うちは春休みやから毎日日曜日なもんやけど、
一家はまだ仕事があったり、学校があったりで、
今日の家の中はゆったり日曜日の雰囲気

朝ご飯作ったけど、
みそ汁をいつもより一回り大きい鍋で作ってしまって、
大量のうす〜いみそ汁になってしまった

その後はいい天気にも関わらず、
家の中で適当に時間過ごしてた

親が犬の散歩に行ってきて、気持ちよかったとの感想を聞いて、
自分も外に行きたい気分になって、春休みに入って４回目のランニングに行ってきた

もっと長く走ってみようと思って１時間を目標に出発したが、
走り続けるって大変やね
結局５０分だけ自分のペースで走った
でもよく考えたら９kmぐらい走ってた

帰って基礎栄養学の教科書でも読もうと思ったものの、
そのまま机の上で爆睡
晩ご飯になってしまった

今は体力がなくて、
走るとその後の一日は活動出来なくなるけど、
10kmを定期的に走って、
体力がつけば、走るのも結構楽しくなりそうな予感

今度は地元のちょっと遠い公園まで走る予定
ちょうど往復１０kmぐらいやし。
今日みたいに同じコースをぐるぐる回るのはほんまに飽きる。

これからは目的地を決めて新鮮な気持ちで走ろう

Yesterday was a spring like weather and it was so nice.
Since I'm in spring break, it doesn't really matter wether it's a sunday or not,
but other than me, all my family members still have school or work so yesterday was,
a sunday like atmosphere.

I made yesterday's breakfast, but I chose the bigger pan to cook the usual amount of miso soup ,
and made an abundant amount of soup.
It's tasted so thin.

Though it was a beautiful weather,
I stayed inside the house for the morning,
doing nothing much.

My parents coming back from Lucas's walk,
they told me that it was very enjoyable going out in that weather,
and hearing that, I felt like going out too.

So I went out to go running for my fourth time entering spring break.
I tried running longer than before so I set my goal to running constantly for an hour,
but I didn't know that running constantly would be so hard.

Eventually I ran for 50 min. on my own pace.
I guess I ran 9km in length.

After I got home I opened my basic nutrition text book and tried studying,
but in a few minutes, I was on my desk sleeping.
It was dinner at the time I woke up.

At this point, I don't have much endurance,
but if I run 10km more often I think and gain more power,
I think running will become more enjoyable.

Next time I run,
I'm thinking of going to a local park that's about 10km going and coming back.
It's really boring when you run the same course round & round like I did yesterday.

From now on I'm going to make a goal and run.

あげる人誰もおらんのは寂しいけど、
久しぶりにお菓子作りする良い機会やし、
クッキー作った！



見た目結構いい感じ

この生地ライ麦粉と薄力粉を３：２の割合で混ぜて作ってんけど、
ライ麦粉（全粒粉）って薄力粉に比べて６倍も食物繊維の量が多いねん
かなり腹持ちが良い

なるべく健康なクッキーにしようと思って、
参考にしたレシピの砂糖の量20g減らしたら、クッキー全然甘味なかった
ジャムと挟んだらちょうどいい感じ
赤いのがイチゴジャム、白っぽいのが桃ジャム
おいしかったけど、
結構口の中の水分持ってかれる

バターも50g減らしてみたけど、
特に支障はなかった。

味をもう少し改善して、
来年の今頃、あげる人がおったらええのにね

It's sad that I don't have anyone to give this too,
but since it's valentine day, I made a cookie!

I really like how it looks.

This dough is made from rye flour and wheat flour.
60% rye, 40% wheat.
I chose using rye flour because rye has 6 times more dietary fiber than wheat flour.
It comes pretty heavy to your stomach.

I was thinking of making a healthy cooky as possible,
so I also lessened 20g of sugar from the recipe that I referred to.
The cookie turned out to have no sweet taste.
But it's just perfect when you sandwich the jam between the cookies.
The red one is strawberry jam and the white-ish one is peach jam.
Over all it tastes good, but the cookie takes away all the moisture from your mouth.

Lessening 50g of butter had no obstacle's to go over.

I wish I could give this cookie to someone on next year's today,
making more improvement with the taste.

GAME CENTER!
一昨日はお母さんと妹の三人で気分転換にお出かけ
カルフールでちょっと買い物するつもりで色んな店を見たりしてたが、
妹の「ちょっとゲームセンターに寄ろう」という提案でゲームセンターで少し遊ぶ事に。
自分はゲームセンターに行く事にあんまり乗り気じゃなかった（フリ）けど、
ゲームセンターに入ったらUFOキャッチャーに囲まれて、
テンションが急上昇

でもUFOキャッチャーは得意じゃないから、
お菓子が取れる機械を選んだ

流れてくるあめ玉とか色んなお菓子を、
シャベルですくい上げて、そのお菓子をスライドする台の上に貯めて、
大きいお菓子と共に下に落とすという具合の機械。

しかし、ゲームをする側の心理をうまく利用した機械で、
のめり込んでしまった

「もうちょっとでお菓子が落ちる」
「あと１ポイントで上の大きいお菓子がもらえる」
「この１ポイントがなかなかもらえなくても、こんなにいいとこまでポイント貯めて、次来るお客さ　んにちゃっかり大きいお菓子もって帰られたら悔しい」
という気持ちに駆られて総額１８００円ぐらい使ってしまった

それで取れたのがこんだけ



元とれてねぇ〜

ゲームセンターにいく事を提案した妹より、
乗り気じゃないフリをしていた自分の方がよっぽどムキになってやってた
何か自分でも危ない感じがしてるのは自覚してる

うちは絶対にパチンコとか賭け事に関することには関わってはいけないタイプや

The day before yesterday,
I went out to Carrefour with my mom and sister just for a change of pace.
We didn't have any specific plans going there,
but I was thinking it would finish buying some stuff we need or want.

My sister suggested going to the arcade when we passed near by.
I was a little reluctant (under pretense??) of going to the arcade,
but surrounded by all the games and UFO catcher,
I was getting high.

I knew that I'm not good at UFO catchers,
so I chose a machine that can get snacks.

You just scoop the snacks (mostly candies) that comes flowing with a shovel,
and put it on a platform that slides back and forth.
As the snacks pile up, it would push the bigger sized snacks down the pocket.

This machine knows how it should make the people stay playing with this thing.
I was completely in to it.

"The candy's about to drop!"
"Another point and I could get the biggest snack!"
"Man it's hard to get that one point, but if i give up here and the next person comes and
takes away that big snack it would be distasteful"

From that kind of feeling, I used like 1800 yen!
You can see how much I was able to get from the upper picture.
That shows how foolish I was.

Though my sister's the one who suggested going to the arcade,
I was the one who was most obstinate.

Now I know that I'm a type of person who shouldn't go out to play pachinko or gambilng.

Sorry I couldn't write the article on the same day!

It's been a while since I cooked last.
Since winter break.

Realizing that I still had some cassava starch and some Shiratamako (glutinous rice flour milled in water), I thought of challenging again on making a Pondegejo (a kind of bread. I made it once on 9/3/2008. Check the blog!!).
So that would be the staple food.
It didn't take long for me to come up with making a pumpkin soup and soy milk pudding,
but the main dish was hard to decide.

I always use chicken for the main dish and it's getting so monotonous!
Even though I want to try cooking new food,
I can't deny that my favorite "meat" is chicken.
And again.
I decided to use chicken to make a hamburger steak.
How would my range of cooking get more various when I don't challenge on different food materials.

After buying what I need,
I started cooking from 5 p.m.

Firstly, I made the dessert. The soy milk carmel pudding!
Found the recipe on the magazine I'm reading right now.
I was afraid about the soy milk's own taste,
but it turned out to be better than I thought.
Well me and my parent's did.
My sister couldn't accept the taste of the soy milk.

The upper picture (on the japanese blog article) is the pudding.

Completed with the pudding,
following comes the Pondegejo!
When I made this before the dough was so bumpy because of the Shiratamako,
not blending in with the water, oil , flour, sugar and cassava strach.
Also, it tasted so salty.
This time I was especially careful on those points,
and the taste and texture was much more better than the previous time.
But compared to the picture I saw on the recipe,
my Pondegejo isn't as smooth as the picture's.
It's o.k right after it's baked but as it gets cool, it becomes wrinkled.
Improved but still have some more to do.

At the time I finished my Pondegejo, it was already 7 p.m.
I was planning to finish cooking all the food by 7:30 and still only finished the pudding and the wrinkly bread!
Dinner won't be ready until I finish cooking all the menu, so I started making the pumpkin soup from that point.

The soup was the worst thing I've ever made in my life!
It wasn't something you could eat!
Can't call it "food".
I can think of some reasons why I failed, but the biggest factor is that I mixed tomato with the pumpkin. At first, I thought it would match, but after my mom saw what I done to the soup, she told me that it would not go together.
When I tasted the soup it was shocking!
I tried to cover the taste using multiple flavoring but no hope of recovery.
I shouldn't have challenged such advanced cooking.

The chicken hamburger steak for the main dish was o.k!
I was thinking of searing the steak, sandwiched with potato's.
I thought that I should keep the potato's in the water for a while before I cook it,
but my mom told me that if i wanted the potato to stick with the meat, I shouldn't.
Too late when she told me that.
The starch in the potato dissolved into the water.

So the potato became an simple garnish to go with the chicken hamburger steak.
If this mistake hadn't occurred I was supposed to make it go with an asparagus saute.
No chance for the asparagus to be on the plate.

That day's dinner was the worst meal that I've ever made in my life!
I can say that especially for the pumpkin soup!
I should keep off from cooking particular food