masa cooking done!
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she made chirashi sushi, grilled salmon, tempura and clam soup.
masa cooking
masa cooking
Originally uploaded by renfield.
Masa came over to show off her favorite pans and cook a bunch of supposedly complicated dishes, like tempura and grilled fish, qute easily.
chocolate oliver biscuits!
chocolate oliver biscuits!
Originally uploaded by renfield.
As I have blogged before, when I was a wee thing, if the timing was right my dad would go to the UK around the holiday season and and was therefore able to swing by Harrods and pick up some Chocolate Oliver Biscuits. These delightful childhood treats of mine have been out of production for a couple of decades, but now! Huntley & Palmers has revived this cookie.
Getting them shipped to Japan turned out to be non-trivial however. H&P, being a right and proper British operation had no way to process yen payments, let alone take orders from over teh internets.
Thus I was saved by the Angel Phillippa. I sent her a USD check, she wave'd her magic wand, and FedEx delivered two cases of tins to my Tokyo apartment. Thank you Phillippa!
The tins are now brown not red, and the cookies are a bit smaller, however the chocolate to biscuit ratio has increased significantly so net net it's a win.
Tonchan of course loved them.
I brought the first open tin to zazen practice and shared with everyone. One tin down, and now sadly only nineteen left...
tetsuya
Another great Japanese word. Written with the characters "to pierce, penetrate" and "night", it means to pull an all-nighter.
We had a new CB issue and made dinner reserves for 9:30. Pushed them back to 10. Then 10:30. Switched restaurants since the Oak Door closes the kitchen at 10:30, so made reserves at 11:30 at Cicada. Then pushed it back to 12. Then 12:30.
In the mean time everyone was starving so I went down to the Am/Pm and loaded up on Pringles, bagwiches, and onigiri just to keep us alive for the next few hours.
Finally left the office and got over to Cicada before 1, cracked open some wine and ordered a bunch of appetizers.
Got home at 3am and was useless in the morning which didn't really help P and Tonchan, since Tonchan's been launching bodily fluids out both ends all week. She's got her baby wisdom teeth coming in, which is not so pleasant, and she's picking up all the lovely virii at school, so she's been throwing up at night and having lovely diarrhea. Understandably not eating much and kinda grumpy, but no fever and loves walking around holding P's hand.
We had a new CB issue and made dinner reserves for 9:30. Pushed them back to 10. Then 10:30. Switched restaurants since the Oak Door closes the kitchen at 10:30, so made reserves at 11:30 at Cicada. Then pushed it back to 12. Then 12:30.
In the mean time everyone was starving so I went down to the Am/Pm and loaded up on Pringles, bagwiches, and onigiri just to keep us alive for the next few hours.
Finally left the office and got over to Cicada before 1, cracked open some wine and ordered a bunch of appetizers.
Got home at 3am and was useless in the morning which didn't really help P and Tonchan, since Tonchan's been launching bodily fluids out both ends all week. She's got her baby wisdom teeth coming in, which is not so pleasant, and she's picking up all the lovely virii at school, so she's been throwing up at night and having lovely diarrhea. Understandably not eating much and kinda grumpy, but no fever and loves walking around holding P's hand.
back atcha
Afternoon sessions at the dojo are getting more and more crowded! There were seven of us today (me still the only guy, besides Inoue-sensei), some of regulars and a couple of newbies. Actually with three people on each bag, doing two minute rounds, it's a good pace: two minutes on, 4 minutes off to get water, shadow with the mirror, etc.
Last ten minutes Sensei got inspired and decided it was time for some back work. We did slow lifts -- lying on your stomach lift your left leg and your right arm, turning your head and upper body to the right as much as you can, slowly lifting, holding, and lowering -- for a full five minutes. Then immediately did 250 superman bounces (still lying on your stomach lift both legs and arms and "bounce" rapidly 250 times.)
I suspect next time we'll be doing some similar torture for abs...
Last ten minutes Sensei got inspired and decided it was time for some back work. We did slow lifts -- lying on your stomach lift your left leg and your right arm, turning your head and upper body to the right as much as you can, slowly lifting, holding, and lowering -- for a full five minutes. Then immediately did 250 superman bounces (still lying on your stomach lift both legs and arms and "bounce" rapidly 250 times.)
I suspect next time we'll be doing some similar torture for abs...
instructing instructors
First things first: what the hell's up with these gale force winds? Think about how strong wind has to blow in order for it to screw up bullet train and commuter train schedules. Totally sucks. Plenty sunny and warm if it weren't for the wind.
So anyway I battled the wind and headed to Akiba to teach the instructors' seminar. Good turnout; over 30 instructors. We spent 3 hours going over all kinds of bits and bobs, what to look out for when teaching, basics, cause and effect, core muscle movements, distance and timing, etc. Slow is smooth and smooth is fast, look where to cut, cut where you look, yadda yadda yadda.
Was absolutely famished when done so headed home quick.
Tonchan had thrown up a bit; reckon either she's still sick and/or she had too much pork and sausage yesterday. But she was in a great mood and wanted to walk everywhere holding my hand. I took her into the spare room and put the freshly washed comforter cover on the comforter, spread it on the bed...and she puked on it. Ah, moments like this I just love being a dad!
So I took the freshly washed-and-puked-on cover off the comforter and threw it in the wash with the rest of her vomit victims.
Kids are good for building patience.
So anyway I battled the wind and headed to Akiba to teach the instructors' seminar. Good turnout; over 30 instructors. We spent 3 hours going over all kinds of bits and bobs, what to look out for when teaching, basics, cause and effect, core muscle movements, distance and timing, etc. Slow is smooth and smooth is fast, look where to cut, cut where you look, yadda yadda yadda.
Was absolutely famished when done so headed home quick.
Tonchan had thrown up a bit; reckon either she's still sick and/or she had too much pork and sausage yesterday. But she was in a great mood and wanted to walk everywhere holding my hand. I took her into the spare room and put the freshly washed comforter cover on the comforter, spread it on the bed...and she puked on it. Ah, moments like this I just love being a dad!
So I took the freshly washed-and-puked-on cover off the comforter and threw it in the wash with the rest of her vomit victims.
Kids are good for building patience.
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