Let's cooking!
Lots of delicious Japanese food this weekend. On Friday night, I finally satisfied my insane craving for oden. I had to satisfy it by myself, since my husband thinks oden is just alien body parts in broth and should not be eaten. He had some miso mackerel with rice, as I recall.
On Saturday, after eating leftover rice in the form of onigiri (by the way, now that we have a rice cooker, I shall be making these more often), we crawled out of the apartment and went shopping. We had a cart, so we could buy the gigantic bag of rice instead of tiny bags I can carry by myself. We got some groceries at Sakura-ya and some fish, which then were used to create awesome ishikari nabe (miso-based salmon nabe they eat in Hokkaido). I don't really know what it was with the Japanese food marathon, other than the fact that I absolutely love Japanese food (well, most of it, anyway) and could eat it every day.
I also played some Dragon Age, finally making it to dwarf town. I finished reading Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindquist. The movie was pretty close to the book. Both are really, really good. I meditated. I read some Buddhist books. Also, as part of my Japanese study, I decided to watch some Japanese dramas. I watched three episodes of Densha Otoko (Train-man), which is a few years old, but is pretty funny. I can't claim I understood everything, but hey, I had fun.
Oh, and NYC Insight Meditation people are opening a sitting group literally a block away from my house next Monday. Now I really have no excuse not to sit.
On Saturday, after eating leftover rice in the form of onigiri (by the way, now that we have a rice cooker, I shall be making these more often), we crawled out of the apartment and went shopping. We had a cart, so we could buy the gigantic bag of rice instead of tiny bags I can carry by myself. We got some groceries at Sakura-ya and some fish, which then were used to create awesome ishikari nabe (miso-based salmon nabe they eat in Hokkaido). I don't really know what it was with the Japanese food marathon, other than the fact that I absolutely love Japanese food (well, most of it, anyway) and could eat it every day.
I also played some Dragon Age, finally making it to dwarf town. I finished reading Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindquist. The movie was pretty close to the book. Both are really, really good. I meditated. I read some Buddhist books. Also, as part of my Japanese study, I decided to watch some Japanese dramas. I watched three episodes of Densha Otoko (Train-man), which is a few years old, but is pretty funny. I can't claim I understood everything, but hey, I had fun.
Oh, and NYC Insight Meditation people are opening a sitting group literally a block away from my house next Monday. Now I really have no excuse not to sit.