Oyster Ramen (recipe)

Here's the recipe.

- Please prepare the following.

One pack of oyster (5 or 6 pieces), half bundle of spinach, approx. 10-centimeters of long onion and one ramen pack.

1. Wash the oysters with water, and wipe them with kitchen towel to dry.  Cut spinach in 4-5 centimeters long.  Cut the long onion into small pieces.

2. Start boiling the water (approx.) 400 ml in a pot.  When the water boils, add the ramen.  Mix sometimes so that it becomes loose.   After boiling 3 to 4 minutes, the ramen is ready.

3. Prepare another pan, and put the pan on the stove.   Turn on the heat.  After it becomes warm, add some olive oil.

4. Add the long onion and spinach, and mix.  After that, add the towel dried oysters.  Fry for 3 to 4 minutes when you see the oysters become big and warmed up, it is time to remove the pan from the stove.  

5.  First, prepare the ramen bowl.  Then, put the cooked ramen noodles in a bowl and add the hot spinach and oysters. 

Oyster is full of zinc, spinach contains Vitamin A, C, E, and long onion helps to warm up our body.

Enjoy the hot ramen!

A Mejiro is eating Japanese persimmons.

You will find one bird, a mejiro or Japanese White-eye in the center.  

 

If you click on the picture, the enlarged one will be shown.

 

Mozu

the pond

A male Jobitaki

Ooban or Black coot

Dec. 5

I bought one pack of kimichi this morning.

I went to buy another 10 packages of sandbags to a home center, I also bought Vioras.

The Year-End Gift

I expected to receive a package weighting 10 kgs of rice bran yesterday, but it was not delivered.

Instead I received a year end gift from my sister who has been living in Saitama Prefecture where we were born.  Saitama is located in the north from Tokyo.  

 

 

I opened the corrugated carton box, and I was very surprised!!  

The message says, "Year End gift from Kayoko Ohnishi," which was my name as the sender.
There was a mistake!  The gift company clerk should have written my sister's name, Cxxxxx, Yxxxxx.  Maybe he or she was very busy, that is why he or she made a mistake.

  

 

I opened the wrapping to see what was the present.

I found that there was assorted cute kitchen detergents.  The German detergent made from Aloe.  

 

I appreciated my sister for coming up with such a nice present.  I am not familiar with these bottles.

I have to think about what I will send to my sister in return.  I would like to send her something from western part of Japan.

I saw a president of a local herbal company in Himeji when I went to Mrs. Venetia Stanley Smith's lecture last Sunday.  I have been to his stores in Himeji for many times.   He also has his own online store, so I checked it yesterday.  Unfortunately their assorted products which he had started selling on Dec. 1st  was already sold out.

We have another popular cookie manufacturer in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture.  Maybe I would like to visit their online site to order some sweets to my sister.

Most of our momiji leaves fell yesterday.

The plum tree in our garden.

 

Our ma

I went to walk in my neigborhood this morning. 

Himeji Castle and Koko-en Park, Hyogo Prefecture (Nov. 30)

Pictures will be uploaded later.

Suma Rikyu Park, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture (Nov. 23)