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I’ve seen some Ochazuke arrange recipes online but I didn’t really try any of them yet. But I just found the Ochazuke recipe book is going to be released soon, and I think it might be interesting. Can you believe as many as 113 recipes are possible with Ochazuke from soup, appetizers, to main dish and dessert?

There are some flavors of Ochazuke. Plain one, salmon flavor (dried salon flakes), Ume (Umeboshi, or a pickled Japanese plum) flavor, wasabi flavor, Tarako (dried salted cod roe flakes) and etc.

The recipe book has 113 recipes from all those different flavors of Ochazuke and it covers Japanese, Chinese, Western cuisine as well as…dessert! I can’t think of making something sweet out of Ochazuke…(*o*)

Of course, you don’t always have to rely on this instant food but you can make Ochazuke by yourself. Ochazuke is also good when you don’t have an appetite. You can make cold Ochazuke in summer instead of adding hot water. It’s high time I could use up the Ochazuke that I haven’t used for a long time.

Ochazuke is a popular Japanese fast food as well as Onigiri (rice ball). Have you ever tried it?

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01:40 I’ve used the silicon wrap but I didn’t like it at all. It was not for me…I’m sorry I threw it away. (Oh that sounds I’m so eco-unfriendly!) There’s no room to keep things that I don’t use any more! I’ve been wondering if I really I want to buy a new Tamagoyaki pan for over 6 months, since the old one got damaged. Maybe it’s only when I find extra room in my kitchen.

03:50 I have only 1 cutting board (まな板 “manaita” in Japanese), 1 big frying pan (フライパン “furai pan” in Japanese), 3 pots (なべ “nabe” in Japanese) sized small, medium and large, 1 deep pot, 1 earthen pot (土鍋 “donabe”), 1 milk pan…I guess that’s all. :p

05:56 I know this. We can easily peel off the eggshell by letting the air out of the bottom of the egg. But I wouldn’t buy a special tool to do that. I usually crack the bottom of the egg slightly before boiling, and I never screw it up. (But don’t do it too strongly, as you’re going to break it.)

10:56 It’s true, however, that we can enjoy cooking more if we have variety of interesting tools. OK, I will love to use all these tools if cooking has become my hobby. :p Unfortunately it’s nothing but an everyday’s chore… -_-

12:32 I think I also feel familiar with the Indonesian woman’s comment, or the kiwi woman’s comment at 12:44.

13:10 It’s true, we cook various cuisine such as Italian, Chinese, Japanese, French-inspired cuisine, German, Russian, Korean, or whatever at every single home.

14:03 I also use oven! (You’ve noticed we pronounce it as “O-bun”. There are many English words we imported into Japanese but have different pronunciations.)

You may have wondered how my kitchen looks like… ^ ^
Here it is.

It’s about 2.5m long and it’s 80cm between the kitchen and the cabinet.

The bottles of water are there to keep Pi-chan out. I don’t want her to come into the kitchen while cooking.

I wish I could have a second small sink exclusive for Pi-chan’s sponge and dishes. The yellow dishes in a small basket are only for Pi-chan to use. I also wash and dry plastic plates, milk container, bottles, cans, pet-bottles, pet-bottle caps and etc., for recycle…so I need some space for those as well…

I have to place a coffee maker, a tea pot, a kettle, some mugs and etc. on the counter because I cannot find space for those. -_-

It’s about 65cm between the sink and the stove. Cooking would be much easier if I had more space here…

A cupboard and some storage. I pull the board when I’m cooking rice, because the rice cooker ejects steam upward.

A kitchen like this is average for a family of 3-4 people in the city. But it’s almost impossible to have 2 people cooking together in this kitchen. That’s why I carry minimum kitchen tools and I want to make it tidy all the time.

What do you think about the interesting kitchen tools in the video for example? Do you have anything that you wish to have? I guess I will have to organize the storage space more effectively before I think of buying something new. ^ ^;; But I will love to make use of the kitchen tools with which I can reduce my labor. ^ ^;; In that sense I don’t think I use kitchen tools for fun cooking, I’d use them to make cooking easier and less time-consuming. How about you?

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This kimono is categorized as “Ohshima” and it’s quite expensive, according to my grandma.

This kimono is “Shibori” and it’s also considered a good quality. But I didn’t like both colors. -_-

It’s Haori, or a half coat. I liked its modern pattern.

This Fukuro-Obi is so golden. I liked it, but then the kimono must be very good one too to be coordinated with it, according to my grandma. Hmm…I’m afraid I’m not confident enough to dress myself up with a good kimono…:(

I liked this one.

But unfortunately her taste is different from mine. I didn’t like most of the designs and colors she had. >_<

When my grandma was young, she was very good at needlework and especially Japanese embroidery called “Rozashi” which is like this. I’ve heard of it, but it was actually the very first time for me to see her Rozashi works. She did Rozashi embroidery on her kimono! It’s so amazing and I totally loved it! Nowadays it’s hardly possible to find people who can do Rozashi any longer in Japan. She had such an amazing skill! She was also a business owner and a single mother in 1940…

She could have shared with me so many things before she became too old. She is going to be 90 in 6 months, and she says “I don’t remember that any more” to almost all the kind of questions I ask to her today. I don’t think I can be good at needlework no matter how well she could have taught me, but I feel that it was too late…She is too old now. I regret that I didn’t even know that she put such a nice thing on her own kimono until today!

I’ve heard my father or relatives talking about her being good at making Rozashi but I didn’t even ask her to show me what she’d created until this time. Well, I didn’t even expect that I could encounter her works with kimono. I was more impressed by her works than kimono as a consequence. I also saw her hand-crocheted stoles, lap robes and a Haori (half coat made for kimono) which also looked so professional. I remember that she made many sweaters for me when I was a kid. But I didn’t even notice that her skills were so professional then.

The nice Rozashi Japanese embroideries will appear at some points. I fell in love with this kimono and some other ones with nice Rozashi embroideries.

The Rozashi Japanese embroideries that she also put on a Fukuro-Obi. *lovely* ^_^

Well, it was another kimono post from my grandmother’s collection, but I’m much more impressed with her Rozashi, or Japanese embroidery as you may notice. :p

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