Recipe: Honey bread

This is one of my favorite recipe.
You can have sweat and soft bread with this.

Honey Bread
-bread flour 7oz (200g)
-all purpose flour  1.7oz (50g)
-honey 1.4oz (40g)
-sugar 0.7oz (20g)
-salt 1teaspoon (2-3g)
-butter 0.7oz (20g)
-yeast 1teaspoon (5-6g)
-milk 6oz (170cc)

If you have a bread machine, set it "light" or "sweet bread". Other than that, it gets burned.
With my bread machine, it takes 2 hours and 40min to have a bread like this.

 It is really soft.

I had it for lunch today with some salad.

 The dressing for salad was mixture of mayo, soysauce, rice vinegar, and home grown parsley.

It was really good together!

Strange weather

Because of these days of strange heat, strawberries start to bloom again.
I guess strawberries misunderstand that summer is coming back!

 Not only one flower but even three flowers are bloomed!!!!

Perhaps I can have strawberries in a week or two!?

Apple Pie

I had some apples which got a little old and doesn't look crunchy any more.

What can I make with those apple?

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Yes! An apple pie!!!

I've never made one before, so I search the recipe on internet.

Thanks to the internet, you can find all sorts of recipe from anywhere in the world as long as you have internet connection.

Anyways,  it was good... even though I forgot to put some cinnamon...

And thinking that this is my first attempt to make an apple pie, it doesn't look that bad... I think...

What can you make when you have spare time?

Instead of staying in front of my compurter to kill my time, I decided to do something creative 15-20min. a day.
And let's see what I can achieve several days, weeks or months later.

Here are what I made today.

I spent 20-30min. to make four of them.
I used some extra fablic that I can't use for anything for making these.
I don't know how to call these things in English. In Japanese we call it "yo-yo".
Perhaps the shape is similar to yo-yo!?

I will make some more and put them together to make a cushion cover ro something.
Let's see how long it will take till I can see the finishing project.

Recipe: Prosciutto and Arugola Sandwich

"Prosciutto and Arugola Sandwich" is the easiest and tastiest sandwich.

Here is the recipe.

What you need is,

French Bread

Mayo

Prosciutto

Arugola

That's it.

I always make french bread with my breadmaker.

And here is the recipe.

French Bread

Bread flour 7 oz = 200g

All Purpose flour 2.8 oz = 80g

Salt 0.1 oz (a little less than 1 teaspoon) = 3g

Butter 0.18 oz = 5g

Dry yeast 0.21 oz = 6g

Water 7oz = 200cc

Select the "French bread" course.

If you don't have a breadmaker and if you don't wanna spend your time and energy to make a bread by your self, then get some french bread or baguette from the bakery.

After you get french bread, all you need to do is 4 steps.

1. Put some mayo on the one side of each bread.

2. Put some proscuitto hams.

3. Put some arugola on them (I used homegrown arugola)

4. Put the other bread on top.

Because I am using old type breadmaker and I can't remove the propeller which is for mixing the flour, the bread has a vertical hole.
The new design machine allows you to take the propeller out in order to make square bread perfectly.

As you see, it is very simple. Even I don't count this as a real recipe. However it tastes really good!
Please try it when you get a chance.

Time for Harvest

♪"You like tomato and I like tomahto"♪

That's a phrase from the song called "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off".

In Japanese, we pronounce "tomato" as "tomahto" indeed.

Anyways, it's harvesttime for my tomatoes.

I planted it in March. That means it takes 6 months to have some fruits.

Just two of those tomatoes are ready to be picked... Hmmm... It's not that much....What should I cook with these?

Oh, Dear! It's a Deer!

As usual, I was watering my plants yesterday morning.

And I found that something unusual is in our backyard....

What is that?

Seeing it closer.....

It's a Deer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've never thought that I would see the deer in our backyard and had a chance to take photos of it.

He/she was eating something.

I am glad that I didn't plant any vegetable in our backyard.

If I did, deers could be my enemy even though they are really cute.

Please visit us some another time, my dear deer!

Season for boots

Summer is over.
In some how, I could survive my crazy summer schedule! Hooley!
I need to wake up 6:30 am and start my work from 8:30 am, Mon-Sat in 8 weeks of July and August.
Before I started, I thought there is no way I could survive this work schedule since I've never woke up before 8 am.
But as a result, I made it!
No being late or absent. Perfect attendance!

Now fall is coming around the corner.
That means good season for boots is coming.
In Japan, we can find so called "Boots Keeper".
Like this, http://www.koncent.jp/?pid=10705017
Those are for keeping boots standing and eliminate odor.

I was looking for those kind of product here in U.S. but I couldn't find similar one.
Maybe they are called in different name, that's why I couldn't find...
And bunch of news papers are used for the substitute for that.
However, taking out and putting back those newspapers into the boots are troublesome for me each time.

So I come up with the idea that I should make my version of "Boots Keeper".
Here is my version of it.

To keep the boots stand, a plastic bottle is in the cover which is made of vintage fablic and ribbon.
To eliminate odor, charcoal is inside of the plastic bottle.

A different size of plastic bottle is used for each pair of boots to fit it's width and hight.
I color coordinate ribbons to remind me of the size of it.

How neat!

Good-bye to newspapers!