Wild salmon, parcely, red onion and white wine baked in parchement paper.
天然サーモン、パセリ、赤玉葱と白ワインをパーチメントペーパーで包み焼き。
We really like this place and it reminds us the time we started dating. At that time, the wisterias were also full bloomed. ここは私達のお気に入りの場所。デートし始めた時に来た所なので、その頃を思い出します。あの時は藤の花も満開でした。
Well, they were not bloomed yet today. We need to come back later!今日はまだ咲いてないですね。又、近いうちに見に来なくっちゃ。
Hakone Garden
http://www.hakone.com/
My dearest grandma has departed to the next place. I am her first grand child and we were very close so I had a tough time to say goodbye to her. I used to spend a lot of Saturday nights with her when I was a little. She was very sweet and let me do ANYTHING I wanted including tasting her coffee (I was not allowed to drink coffee till I was 13) so I was looking forward Saturdays staying with her and grandpa.The meat was almost 4 lb!! This was the last corned beef at the store and I didn't have any other choices. お肉が2キロ近くもあったのです。お店で最後のひとつだったため、選択の余地がなかった。
It came out pretty good so don't mind having this for a few days. We can make corned beef sandwich with this!!! でもおいしくできたので、2,3日続けて食べてもいいな。コーンビーフサンドイッチにしてもいいし!!!

Rachel and I have been friends for long time. We used to work at the same company and even went to business trip to Japan together. We went through some hard time at work together and I am so glad to see that she looks very happy now. Rachelとは長いつきあいで、以前、同じ会社で働いていました。日本出張に一緒に行ったこともあるんです。その職場ではいろいろつらいこともありましたが、今、Rachelが(私も)とてもハッピーにしているのを見れてとてもうれしい。
We had...
Gambari: Marinated eggplant topped with grilled prawns in a traditional tomato coriander sauce..
M'shakaleh :Layers of mushrooms, grilled eggplant, cauliflower, tomatoes, and rice, served with a yogurt-tomato sauce.
M'Sakhan :Boneless chicken and carmalized onions, seasoned with almonds, sumac spice,wrapped and baked in a Tanour crust, served with saffaron-yogurt sauce.
and cooktail drinks and pita bread+sauce. We really liked this place!
Dish Dash
190 S Murphy Ave
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
(408) 774-1889
www.dishdash.net
This is a pillow case that I got in Paris last year. I couldn't find another one because it was on sale. It is useless as a pillow case for 2 people in the house hold but I liked this Sakura:Cherry blossom print too much so got it anyway. It had been in my closet for 10 months but I finally made use of it!! これは去年パリで買った枕カバー。セール品だったので最後の一枚で同じものが見つけられなかった。二人の家族でひとつの枕カバーでは役に立たないけれど、桜の模様がとても気にいったので、取り合えず買いました。それから10ヶ月の間たんすの中で眠っていたけど、ついに役に立つ日が来ました。

click pic to enlarge. 写真をクリックすると拡大します。
Hina matsuri dinner. From left top, vinegrated daikon and carrot, spinach sesame cream, Chirashi sushi, fruit jello, warm tofu in dashi + soy sauce. Hina matsuri meal usually has clam clear soup but I forgot to buy clams so no soup tonight. It is very hard to make perfect sushi rice. The ingredients of it are only steamed rice, rice vinegar, sugar, and salt but the balance of those are critical. I gave my tonight's sushi rice 60 points (out of 100) because the rice was a little too soft and needed more vinegar.
ひな祭りのお夕飯。左上より大根とにんじんの酢の物、ほうれん草の練りゴマソース、ちらし寿司、フルーツゼリー、温かいお豆腐にだしとお醤油をかけたもの。はまぐりを買い忘れたのでお決まりのはまぐりのお吸い物がない。それにしても完璧な寿司飯を作るのは難しい。お酢とお砂糖とお塩とちょっとのだしだけなのにこのバランスが微妙です。今夜の寿司飯は60点かなあ。ご飯がやわらかすぎたのとお酢が足りなかった。
10:30AM
Went to Pottery barn Kid's to get birthday present for Steven's friend's baby.
Pottery barn Kid's へStevenの友人の赤ちゃんの誕生日プレゼントを買いに行く。
2PM
Went to Green Apple to see used books and CDs. I got Towa tei's CD. It was only $8.50! I am listening right now and I like it a lot.
Green Appleへ古本、古CDを見に。Towa teiのこのCDをたったの$8.50で手に入れました。今、聞いているけれどかなりいい。
3PM
Visited our friends with the cup cakes and chatted for a few hours. Were also searching restaurants in San Francisco. So many restaurants we would like to go.
カップケーキを持ってお友達宅へ。数時間そこでおしゃべり。サンフランシスコのレストランのレビューをみんなでみたりしてたのだけど、行きたい所がたくさんあるなあ。
6PM
Saw another friend in San Francisco and went to an Italian restaurant, Vivande. Their home made pasta were great. Not cooked too much and good texture of the noodle. These are the dishes I had for dinner. Steamed clam with White wine. (I thought it came with pasta but I was wrong so ordered pasta and had them together.) Prosciutto and parmesan reggiano with a madeila marinated fig. Loved the prosciutto...not too salty and soft, not stringy. The dessert was their famous bread pudding on custard cream sauce. Of course it was great.
別のサンフランシスコの友人に会い、Vivandeというイタリアンレストランへ。自家製パスタがお得意のこのお店、ゆですぎず、麵のシコシコ感もありおいしかった。これは私がオーダーしたもの。あさりの白ワイン蒸し。(パスタと一緒だと勘違いしたので、パスタを追加注文しました。)プロシュートとパルメジャーノレッジャーノ。マデイラ酒漬けのいちじくと。デザートはパンプディングのカスタードクリームソース。お店のお得意デザートのようで、とてもおいしかった。
Vivande
2125 Fillmore St
San Francisco, CA 94115
415-346-4430
8PM
Walking around the Filmore street area. A lot of stores/restaurants are come and go.
Filmore通りの界隈を歩く。たくさんのお店やレストランが来てはいってしまう。回転の速い通り。
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Meat day and Fish day at home this week. 今週のお肉の日とお魚の日。
We got a HUGE tender loin so I followed this video, Good Eats episode about how to cut and cook tender loin. Our favourite chef Alton Brown was right. This steak with cream brandy sauce was out of world! (Mushroom is my addition.) ビーフテンダーロインの巨大なかたまりが手に入ったので、このGoodEatsというテレビの料理番組のビデオを見て、お肉の切り落とし方、料理の仕方を忠実に守りながら作りました。私達のお気に入りシェフ、Alton Brownは正しかった。クリームソースのとんでもなくおいしいステーキができあがり。椎茸は私の追加です。

