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Ingredients for 2-3 people, as a side dish
sweet potato (1 large)　
cooking oil or sesame oil (3tbs)
sugar (3tbs)
vinegar (half tsp)　
soy sauce (1tbs, if you like)
black sesame seeds (adequate)

Peel off the skin of sweet potato, chop it coarsely, and put it into the water for about 10 minutes.

Throw oil, sugar, vinegar (and soy sauce if you like) into a frying pan.

Then drain the chopped sweet potato and place it on a frying pan.　

Place a lid on a frying pan and heat it over moderate heat.
When you hear some crackling noise that is getting louder, turn the heat to low and keep heating for 10-15 minutes.

See if sweet potato is fully heated.

Keep stir-frying until the sweet potato gets coated with sugar and the surface of it gets crispy. (Unnecessary oil remains in the frying pan.)

Serve it on a dish and sprinkle some black sesame seeds over it. It’s done!

Originally, Daigakuimo can be deep fried and mixed up with sauce that is made separately from sweet potato. But this recipe is what makes it easy. Hope you enjoy it!

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She’s too dependent. She always likes to be close to us. But we don’t feel it’s a good idea to let her sleep with us in the same bed, we only allow her to join for a nap in a couch. Then what happened? Every morning Pi-chan begs my husband to get out of his bed to sleep with her in a couch. My husband is too nice to her, he never minds that, no matter how sleepy he feels. -_- Pi-chan is spoiled…haha. I’d say NO to her if I want to sleep more in my own bed… :p

Now under the table, what is she doing there?

She’s staying there because I was working there. You see this is how she is. I could step on her without knowing… o_0
English-Spanish dictionary and a paper that shows Spanish keyboard layout are always around my computer. I listen to Spanish conversation audio and watch Spanish speaking drama everyday and write to some Spanish speaking friends frequently. There’s almost no day that I don’t hear or write Spanish nowadays. ^_^

What can she see from there? Seeing things from her angle, I’m shocked how some part of the floor is dusty…(x_x) *sorry, Pi-chan!*

To avoid the same mistake from last winter, we let her fur grow this winter. Her face has become bigger due to the grown fur. Sometimes she looks busa-kawaii (ugly kawaii). ^ ^;;

Hope you are doing well.
Kirin and Pi-chan

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There are several kind of sushi in Japan, and they are very regional. Here is a sample of Chirashizushi that we can easily make at home.

step 1: First off, here is a recipe for sushi rice. But before that, please wash rice (3 cups) and set it in a rice cooker with appropriate amount of water (less than normal for sushi rice) added. You need to wait 30-60 minutes with rice being soaked in water, before you start cooking it. You’d better start cooking rice and then get down to the followings. I’d also take time to reconstitute dried shiitake mushrooms (at step 4), so I’d do it first.

2: How to make sushi rice (3 cups of rice)
-vinegar (6tbs)
-sugar (5tbs)
-salt (1tsp)
　

3: Put the above ingredients into a heat-resistant container and microwave for 1-1.5 minutes and mix it well. (This is when your microwave oven has 500-600W, if it’s more powerful, under 1 minute maybe fine. Or you can make it warm in a pot, but do not make it boil!) Then wait for the rice to be cooked, and meanwhile you are going to cut vegetables.

Ingredients for 2-3 people
-egg (3)
-carrot (half)
-fried bean curd (1)
-dried shiitake mushroom (3)
-chikuwa (=fish sausage) (2)

***You can substitute more carrot or shiitake for fried bean curd or chikuwa, if you can’t find them in your area.)

4: Reconstitute dried shiitake mushrooms in 1 cup of water. Keep this soup, don’t throw it away! That’s the reason you have to use “dried” shiitake, not the fresh one.

5: Cut the shiitake mushrooms, carrot, fried bean curd, and chikuwa into small pieces.
The prepare the following ingredients.

-Shiitake soup, taken out of dried shiitake mushrooms (2/3 cup, which is about 120mm)
-soy sauce (2tbs)
-sugar (1tbs)
-mirin, or sweet cooking rice wine (1tbs)
-sake (1tbs)

6: Put all the ingredients above into a pot…

and keep simmering until you see no soup.

7: As for the 3 eggs, beat them, mix the following ingredients and make scrambled egg.
-sugar (2tbs)
-salt (2/3 tsp)
-dashi or water (2tbs)

8: The rice is cooked by this time. Put the “step 2″ ingredients into the cooked rice and mix well. Do it while the rice is still hot.

9: Then add the vegetables

and mix the whole thing well. It’s tasty if you add some while sesame seeds, but only if you like.

10: Place it on a dish and spread the scrambled egg. This time, Chika added radish sprouts to make it look more colorful, but you can also put thinly sliced laver or pickled ginger. To make it even more gorgeous, you can add boiled shrimp or sashimi on the top.

You can actually make various kind of sushi at home, if only you know how to make sushi rice. I hope to release another sushi post (probably pressed sushi) some of these days. Enjoy your chirashizushi!

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