02/02/2017 (evening) I ate a curry soup with chopped potatoes, shredded onions, a white sausage and cumin and turmeric. A hot and health dish.
Now it's snowing now. This is good for appetite.
Tomorrow I will try to cook turmeric rice.
I found several vacant spice conteners in the kitchen. It would be suitable to put other spices in. I want to buy cardamon, wholespice and coliander.
We have nutmeg, cinamon, red peppers, clove already in the kitchen. We have lots of potatoes. So I will try various types of curry, cominating some of them.
I feel hot after taking the curry soup. Cumin and turmetic have some effect to make the body temperature upward.
I found a bowl that I had bought in NAGASAKI. The style is ARITA-YAKI, and its design is grape motif with blue and white. I bought it at US$12 in a shop of specialite.
There are many shops of ARITA-YAKI there. I visited as many as possible. My objective is just a rice bowl.
I was unsatisfied with the bowl used prefiously. Many of rice bowls's design in Japan is sexist oriented. I wanted to have one small bowl with manish or neutral design. I don't like childish design eather. Small but manish. This combination is difficult to find.
There are big bowls with good design. However, my stomach isn't so big. I need a tiny one. Thus, I visited one by one, seeking my ideal bowl.
I calculated US$10 as a price. However, it was difficult to find with that value. Most of the shops costed more than US$20.
And, many of them are sold at a pair of Big one and smaller one. It is called "MEOTO-CHAWAN" or "married couple's pair of bowls" in Japanese.
"I'm not a married. Big one is not necessary. However, no good design for small bowls.", I was wondring.
Then, I found the bowl. The bowl is a bit bigger than normal bowl for female and a bit smaller than normal male one. The design is just I imagined as a bowl of ARITA-YAKI. I asked the shopkeeper of the price. US$12, he replied. A bit expensive at US$2 more than I planned. I hesitated to buy it. "Another shop has similar one with under US$10?" I was in doubt.
The shopkeeper said to me to take it in the hand. I was surprised a bit at the weight. It was so light. He said, "This is the character of this bowl, using the newly invented material. Lighter than usual one." The bowl is thinner than usual, half transparent, if you notice. A beautiful sophisticated design. The blue of outside design reflects it colour and looks a bit bluish. And inside there is a design arround the hedge. And the bottom, to avoid finger slipping, the brown is gritty coated with another material. Thus I decided to buy it.It deserves extra US$2. A bit different from the size and the price, however, I was satisfied with the shopping.
I made a trip to NAGASAKI to participate in the meeting on cultural intercourse with other ountries in 15 and 16 centuries. I also had been interested the report that there were many Portuguese merchants in Mexico in this era.
On the way, I found lots of potteries arroud and decided to visit the town to buy my own bowl with good design.
After my 4 months of custody, I couldn't find it in the bowl shelf in our house. However, I encountered with it the plate storage under the gas table. I was relieved. At least, it was saved from the danger of YUKARI the broken robot.
Well made, lots of intentions of the artisan and beautiful design. Not manish, exactly. Neutral, sexually.
I hate DoDoMerdic design. There are full of DoDoMerdic "KAWAII" designs all arround. I want to escape from the intrusion of these terrible feminine designs.
Interesting to say, YUKARI loves DoDoMerdica WAKAII country style design. We call it cheap rustic style. She is an urbanist, disliking genuine nature, however loves artificial nature, contradictorily, like other DoDoMerdas.
Now it's snowing now. This is good for appetite.
Tomorrow I will try to cook turmeric rice.
I found several vacant spice conteners in the kitchen. It would be suitable to put other spices in. I want to buy cardamon, wholespice and coliander.
We have nutmeg, cinamon, red peppers, clove already in the kitchen. We have lots of potatoes. So I will try various types of curry, cominating some of them.
I feel hot after taking the curry soup. Cumin and turmetic have some effect to make the body temperature upward.
I found a bowl that I had bought in NAGASAKI. The style is ARITA-YAKI, and its design is grape motif with blue and white. I bought it at US$12 in a shop of specialite.
There are many shops of ARITA-YAKI there. I visited as many as possible. My objective is just a rice bowl.
I was unsatisfied with the bowl used prefiously. Many of rice bowls's design in Japan is sexist oriented. I wanted to have one small bowl with manish or neutral design. I don't like childish design eather. Small but manish. This combination is difficult to find.
There are big bowls with good design. However, my stomach isn't so big. I need a tiny one. Thus, I visited one by one, seeking my ideal bowl.
I calculated US$10 as a price. However, it was difficult to find with that value. Most of the shops costed more than US$20.
And, many of them are sold at a pair of Big one and smaller one. It is called "MEOTO-CHAWAN" or "married couple's pair of bowls" in Japanese.
"I'm not a married. Big one is not necessary. However, no good design for small bowls.", I was wondring.
Then, I found the bowl. The bowl is a bit bigger than normal bowl for female and a bit smaller than normal male one. The design is just I imagined as a bowl of ARITA-YAKI. I asked the shopkeeper of the price. US$12, he replied. A bit expensive at US$2 more than I planned. I hesitated to buy it. "Another shop has similar one with under US$10?" I was in doubt.
The shopkeeper said to me to take it in the hand. I was surprised a bit at the weight. It was so light. He said, "This is the character of this bowl, using the newly invented material. Lighter than usual one." The bowl is thinner than usual, half transparent, if you notice. A beautiful sophisticated design. The blue of outside design reflects it colour and looks a bit bluish. And inside there is a design arround the hedge. And the bottom, to avoid finger slipping, the brown is gritty coated with another material. Thus I decided to buy it.It deserves extra US$2. A bit different from the size and the price, however, I was satisfied with the shopping.
I made a trip to NAGASAKI to participate in the meeting on cultural intercourse with other ountries in 15 and 16 centuries. I also had been interested the report that there were many Portuguese merchants in Mexico in this era.
On the way, I found lots of potteries arroud and decided to visit the town to buy my own bowl with good design.
After my 4 months of custody, I couldn't find it in the bowl shelf in our house. However, I encountered with it the plate storage under the gas table. I was relieved. At least, it was saved from the danger of YUKARI the broken robot.
Well made, lots of intentions of the artisan and beautiful design. Not manish, exactly. Neutral, sexually.
I hate DoDoMerdic design. There are full of DoDoMerdic "KAWAII" designs all arround. I want to escape from the intrusion of these terrible feminine designs.
Interesting to say, YUKARI loves DoDoMerdica WAKAII country style design. We call it cheap rustic style. She is an urbanist, disliking genuine nature, however loves artificial nature, contradictorily, like other DoDoMerdas.