A sunset and a praying mantis ...
Cobweb after the rain.
Friday, September 01, 2006
Gold!
Wow, look I'm rich! I have a gold coffee filter :)
1. Coffee tastes much better made with a gold filter. If you use a paper filter, the coffee oil is soaked up by the filter and doesn't remain in the coffee. In addition, I don't know how the paper filters are made. Bleached ones have chemicals in the paper and even brown ones have been made somehow in a factory. I worry about the manufacturing process of paper filters.
Actually, the filter is gold mesh and it was a little expensive at 5,000yen. So why did I buy it? Two reasons:
1. Coffee tastes much better made with a gold filter. If you use a paper filter, the coffee oil is soaked up by the filter and doesn't remain in the coffee. In addition, I don't know how the paper filters are made. Bleached ones have chemicals in the paper and even brown ones have been made somehow in a factory. I worry about the manufacturing process of paper filters.2. I can keep the gold filter forever! This means that in about 2 years I will break even on my purchase. (I calculated that buying paper filters for 2 years = 5,000yen). And how many trees can I save? :)
Fabulous food
Lately I've been trying to make most of our food, rather than buy it. That means I don't buy any pre-prepared food from supermarkets etc. Sometimes cooking is troublesome, but here are some of my efforts:
Healthy Croquettes
I don't like fried food so much, so these are a special treat. Inside is SUPER healthy - mashed pumpkin and kibi (millet). First I simmered the millet in vegetable stock then mashed it with the pumpkin. If you don't know what millet is, it is very small seeds that look like bird food! You can buy it at health food shops or some vegetable stores.
Healthy Croquettes
I don't like fried food so much, so these are a special treat. Inside is SUPER healthy - mashed pumpkin and kibi (millet). First I simmered the millet in vegetable stock then mashed it with the pumpkin. If you don't know what millet is, it is very small seeds that look like bird food! You can buy it at health food shops or some vegetable stores.
Chinese Dumplings
I used 'gyoza' wrappings from the supermarket but made my own filling. I minced a chicken breast fillet with nira, negi onions, carrot, garlic and a red chilli pepper. Very healthy! The ones in the half moon shape were lightly fried in a little olive oil, and the star shaped ones were boiled in chicken soup.
Scones
I often make scones rather than eating bread from a bakery. These ones are flavored with yuzu citron jam.
Monday, August 28, 2006
Silent again
Sorry, once again I didn't post for a few weeks ...
No reason in particular - I was just being lazy! This summer vacation I decided to do as little work on the computer as possible. I wanted to have a true break in the holidays, so I just watched TV (high school baseball), read books, cleaned the house, did gardening, went shopping, etc.
But it was surprising how fast one week of 'doing nothing' flew by so quickly! And because of my laziness two weeks ago, last week I had to catch up on some paperwork :(
No reason in particular - I was just being lazy! This summer vacation I decided to do as little work on the computer as possible. I wanted to have a true break in the holidays, so I just watched TV (high school baseball), read books, cleaned the house, did gardening, went shopping, etc.
But it was surprising how fast one week of 'doing nothing' flew by so quickly! And because of my laziness two weeks ago, last week I had to catch up on some paperwork :(
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