What I ate yesterday

Every year I go to a medical check-up, and I am always told that I have the Dyslipidemia (or Hyperlididemia), one of the nutritional and metabolic disease. 

 

I am not a nutritional expert, and I don't know much about it.  But I cooked something which might be helpful to my health.

 

I took some of the pictures then, so I would like to share what I ate yesterday.

 

 A cup of soymilk

(Isoflavone is said to be helpful to people in my age)

 

I took a cup of rice with Natto. 

I sliced an apple for breakfast.

For lunch, I took some pumkins.   (Microwave - 3 minutes.)

This is the pan which I use for more than 18 years. 

I can attach a sieve in the upper level; I put some water in the lower one.   

Steamed sweet potatoes

I boiled Shimeji mushrooms and sliced onions.

 

a package of vegetables
(soy sprout, sliced carrots, cabbages, leeks, green peppers)

 

A bin of a ponzu dressing (juice pressed from citrus)

Compared with soy sauce, this contains less salt.

 

 

 Upper in the left: young soybeans in the pod

I think I should have eaten more protein yesterday.

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I had a fever of more than 38 degrees for four days until yesterday, so I tried to drink much of water.
I had 2 petbottles of sweetened tea in the refrigerator, so I drank all of them yesterday.
The sweetened taste made me easy to drink.

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Ms. D's Suggested recipe for Lemon Tea.
(Approx. 5 or 6 servings of lemon tea)

1. Prepare one cup of water (200ml)
2. Prepare 4 tea bags
3. Boil the water
4. If it is boied, turn off the fire
5. Put the tea bags
6. Stay about 3 min.
7. Take off the tea bags
8. Add a half cup of sugar
9. Add 1,000 ml of water
10. Put fresh lemon juice (half of a fresh lemon)
11. Stir it.  Add some ice cubes if you want to.

Just add more sugar if you want it to be sweeter

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Ms. D's Suggested recipe for Lemon Juice

1. Prepare one cup of water (200ml)
2. Prepare 2 pieces of lemons, and squeeze them.
3. Boil the water
4. Put sugar and stir until sugar is totally dissolved.
5. Make sure that the sugar is well mixed.
6. Let the syrup(sugar and water) cool then add to the lemon juice
7. Stir it. 

Nada Fighting Festival (Oct. 15)

 

Please enjoy watching the fightings by youtube site <--- please click!

The site is only 1 minute and half long, and this (one minute long).

 

I found one English explanation website which sounds interesting.

 

 

 

 

 

Nada Fighting Festival Parade (Oct.14)

Men and our portable shrine came to our street for the parade.

 

 

Our festivals

A big typhoon approached All across Japan yesterday and we had a terrible weather in western Japan yesterday.  I went out to grocery store which was located in front of our house.  The only 50-meter walk, I had my umbrella broken due to strong wind.  I was fortunate because I didn't get hurt. 

My husband who teaches science in a local high school watched TV weather forecasts all the time yesterday.  It made me restless, and I preferred to stay another room during the weekend.

Last Saturday, Oct. 12, we walked about 15 minutes to see a small festival that night.  I took some photos.   Here are some.  It's called Okuyama Hachiman Festival.

                                                       Picture No.1 -   Okuyama Portable Shrine

 Picture No. 2

 

Picture No.3 -This festival is a small one.  Less visitors allow us to see everything.

 

Picture No.4

 

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Local expert musicians play Japanese traditional instruments, a drum and a flute.

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We are having another festivals for today and tomorrow.  It's called Nada Fighting Festival.  I have some pictures which I took from our veranda a few years ago.   

Men carrying a portable shrine are coming to the street. 

They are coming around 10:30 a.m. October 14 every year.

You can see the blue color stuff.  It represents they belong to our team.  We used to have seven villages in our area.  Each village has different color, that means seven colors.

In our festival, each village has fights by crashing portable shrines on October 15.

That is tomorrow, and I would like you to visit the site <--- please click here!>  to see more details. 

Almost every year, one person was carrying the shrine would get hurt by between the portable shrines during the fight. 

I visit Matsubara Hachiman Shrine every year to see the fight.  It is only 5 minutes by bike from our house. 

It is a very famous festival in western part of Japan.  I see many people there and actually it is the most busiest season in our town.

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This year, I am curious to see Oshio Shishimai, another festival, too.  I have never been there.  The pictures were borrowed from some public tourist association. It is held in the place where two train station away from our nearest station.