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 …

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. …

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, …

Making cloth mask using handkerchief

I got a bit feeling tired of the virus for over months. It looked like decreasing, however, we'd better watch everyday and be careful to prevent re-inflation, for more months, at least. Anyway, I and wife have stayed home long. When we went out for shopping once in a week, some of things still have …

Making Banh Xeo at home

Well, the request of staying home have been kept until the next month at least. Comparing to other countries, our government did not force us, but we stayed at home as possible. Instead of getting stress by the situation, we should focus on other things in house, for example, cleaning parts of house day by …

Unused tripod turned into a small table

Nowadays we didn't use camera, which means ordinary camera for just taking photo, due to improvement of camera feature in smartphone. Because of it, we have a tripod left long time in a corner of room. I thought of some ideas to use, or trash it recently. The tripod was not wasted, however, selling or …

Making apple jam accidentally

One day, when I got back home, my wife told me that she actually bought many apples because a bunch of apples was sold in good price at near mall. It sounded good. We like fruits and especially apple is good as dessert or a dish of brunch, too. I put them into an bowl …

Setting a tablet for working

As I told few weeks ago, I got a tablet at the end of last year. But, I had left it on my desk long time with few setup because I was in busy business and took my laptop anytime, to develop, and connect servers which I was asked to investigate something wrong through VPN, …