Quick and easy Goya Champloo

Goya Champloo, a dish of Okinawa. I have some plants in my small balcony every year. Some of those are our standards, for example, Okawakame vine, basil, and Goya vine. Goya vine is famous as a vegetable of Okinawa. It have bitterness but a lot of nutrients, and give power to us in summer. And …

Gary Gygax and the Birth of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS by Michael Witwer

Gary Gygax and the Birth of DUNGEON & DRAGONS in Japanese print. Actually, I'm a game player of TRPG since I was in junior highschool, however, now I reached at over fourty years old, then friends who played with me, are grown, have family, or went far for business. Then I never played for years. …

A handmade alcohol stove for small fire stand

A handmade alcohol stove made of small can. As you may know, I posted about an alcohol stove I made. After that, I made some stoves just for fun. I sometimes took it for riding bicycle and made hot water to eat instant noodle. That was much fun. Though I never did such things for …

Sweet orange peel from Japanese one

Orange peel made from Japanese one called Ponkan. This year, I happened to cook peel with sugar rather than usual. For example, big Chinese citron, we call Ban-Pei-Yu turned into something like jelly because it's actually a kind of pomelo and has fat inside peel. After that, I made orange peel from Japanese orange, Amanatsu. …

Watching eclipse without looking directly

Last week, I heard and read an topic many times; eclipse would come on last weekend! Actually I and wife like this kind of astronomic events. We wanted to see the eclipse, however, such events often happen in bad weather, or we cannot see correctly due to location where we live. So we heard without …

Nishi Aburayama Chuo Park

From the lookout of Nishi Aburayama Chuo Park. One day, I found my wife got nervous in the evening, and expected what made her...so I asked her to go out for refreshing a while. She accepted, then gave a question "Where can we go?" well, well, we still did want to go into crowd due …

Driving to an airport with packed meals

Last month, we hold a party to celebrate my father's birthday, mother prepared many dishes in her house and we had fun time. At the end of the party, when we said good-bye and would leave, mother asked us to take some of leftovers. Of course we accepted that. She put meals into a big …

Making Pho from rice papers

I have a bunch of rice papers in my food stock for long time. Actually that's a memory of previous company I belonged. A Vietnamese coworker showed me foods uses rice paper. Then I like that and thought of trying by myself, however, did not find any good cooking with those. Now it will be …

Little small workplace with outdoor furniture

Outdoor table and chair were set at a corner of room. A movement for over two months, "Stay home" have ended in Japan, and we are trying new days with the virus. Actually, re-infection caused at another city in same prefecture. So we cannot forget and have to be aware of behavior outside. As possible, …

Stanley Classic Bottle arrived

Due to COVIC-19 disaster, we have been lost opportunities to take airplane for months. Now our government lifted the state of emergency, however, i guess everybody avoid it as possible, for weeks at least. By the way, I have some mileage on an airplane company. The company announced that they expanded expiration of mileage considering …