Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Pokemon Airplane

Hello, again!

I just want to have quick posting about Pokemon Airplane from ANA.

Found Airplane with Pokemon!!! OMG!!!
It looked so cute!

If you like Pokemon, this will be the one you would take!

Pokemon x ANA!!!



Christmas Dinner (from cooking school)

Hello. How are you doing?

I am so sorry that I did not update any posting for a month...

I know I should update my story more often... So Sorry...

Anyway, did you have wonderful happy Christmas???
I really hoped that you had a great Christmas holidays!!!

New Year is coming soon... Do you have any plan for New Year?
For me, I will spend time with my family for New Year!!! I will cook some Japanese New Year dishes for my family dinner. Will start cooking from Dec 31, and continue to Jan 1.

Oh, I need to tell you that I decide to go to cooking school. Went there already 3 times!!!
I learned 3 different dishes from school. It was really fun and enjoying to learn new recipes!!!

Today, I will tell you about Christmas Dinner dishes which I learned from school.

Ok........

First lesson I went to was Christmas Dinner dishes.
It is Christmas dinner plates. Yes, there is Chicken for sure.....but it is Japanese taste.
It was not like regular Christmas roasted Chicken. It was good, but thinking how I can describe about Japanese taste of roasted Chicken...

anyway, and also there is Toast with Pastrami, Corn soup, Potatoes Salad(look like Christmas Tree Style), and Leaf Pie with Strawberries and custard.

It was not too hard, and Leaf Pie was so good. But it was easy to make! Wow!!!

I took pics, but not really good quality, so it will be hard to see clearly...Sorry.

will post other dish tomorrow!!!

Hope it will look good...... so sorry about picture quality...

Anyway, it is too late to say this word, but I wanna tell you that....
Happy Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!






Sunday, November 28, 2010

Sweet Potato Cake

Hello. Today, I decided to make Sweet Potato Cake. My mom went to shopping and found sweet potatoes. I was thinking that I wanted to cook something...something...
My mom and I was discussing what I should make to use Sweet Potatoes, and I decided to make the cake! It was very simple Sweet Potato Cake.

Ingredients;
Sweet Potatoes, Butter, Sugar, Milk, Vanilla Extra, Eggs

Just Bake 20 minutes

It was good, but I want to try to make it again.
I want to make Sweet Potato Cake in different way next time.

Anyway, will continue to cook every week...
What should I cook next week??? Oh, I have some ideas!!! I cannot tell you right now what I will plan to cook, but we will see next week on my blog!

Thanks!!!

Oh, I forgot to tell you...
Happy Thanksgiving!!! Hope you had wonderful Thanksgiving holidays!!!





Sunday, November 14, 2010

Soup

Today, I decided to make soup because I got sick and needed to stay home even though I needed to work during weekend...

Anyway, so decided to make some warm soup!!! And, I was thinking what kinds of soup I should make... I was thinking and thinking... and finally decided to make Pumpkin Soup!!!

I could not go outside for shopping, so called my mom and ordered to buy Pumpkin, Sweet Potato, and fresh cream.

It is Pumpkin soup with Sweet Potato. Umm... It sounds good. Wait! Maybe it is Pumpkin and Sweet Potato soup. Anyway, you can decide the name, but it is soup!

I did not use any sugar but it was so sweet!!! I think it tastes good!!! However, I used fresh cream, and it was little heavy... I should use milk instead of using fresh cream...
Oh, I forgot to mention that also made Pumpkin chips.

I will try to make it again!!!

Do you want to try to taste my soup!?

Bon Appetit(?)




Tuesday, November 2, 2010

My Dog is .......

OMG!!! My mom took picture of our dog, Shin Chan.

Shin Chan is our dog's nickname, and he is really old. He turned 15 years old in last September. My mom and Shin Chan have same Birthday! It is so interesting... it is same Birthday!

OK. Back to the story...

I went back to home after work, and mom showed me one picture.

OMG!!! It is sooooooo cute!!!

Are you ready to see the picture??? Are you sure???

OK. Ok...

Here is the picture mom took it............







He looks so smart!!! He is look like University teacher or ... Old man who like to read...
Ahaha... What do you think???

I really like this picture... so would like to share with you!!!

Thank you!!!

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Happy Halloween!!!

Everyone, Happy Happy Halloween!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, I wanted to go to Halloween Party, but I did not have chance to go to any party in this time, so I decided to bake Halloween Cookies!!!

Honestly, I like Halloween events!!! because I can wear costume!!! It is fun event. Especially for children!!! Trick or Treat!!! Get Candies, Cookies, and Chocolates!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I did not bake cookies for a long time......so I forgot my recipes... OMG! However, I made it!!!

I made Halloween Cookies!!! I am ready for Trick or Treat!!! Who wants to eat Halloween Cookies? If you want to eat them, you know what you need to say!?

"Trick or Treat"

Hope you have Happy Halloween!!!






This picture was from Halloween Party in 2009... I was Bunny!!! Ahaha...
...OMG!!!

Saturday, October 23, 2010

cooking!!!

Hello!!! It will be cooking story!!!

Well, i did not cook for a long time because my mom's cooking is best for me!!! However, I realized that I should cook and learn more recipes from my mom. I know I should re-start to cook again!!!

So, I decided to cook some dishes on last sunday. I was thinking what I should cook...
Well, I cooked Pumpkin Salad as usual because my mom likes it and stew with tomatoes, eggplants, onions, green peppers, mushrooms, bacons, baked chickens and with some herbs...I think...

It was like tomato source with some vegetables, so it would be good with Pasta.

Well, it was fun to cook! I should cook again soon!!!

Thank you!!!


Monday, October 11, 2010

CupCake!!!

Today, I baked CupCake!!! You know I got CupCake mix from Amy&Ricky as my B-day gift. So........I decided to bake it!!!

I did not bake and cook for a long time now because of my mom! She is a best chef for me, so she always cooks for me. And, I cannot cook because I am busy for eating meals she cooks.

I know I should cook more........BUT my mom's cooking is BEST!!!

Anyway, I baked them with Halloween Cup! I went to shopping with my friend today, and found Halloween designed cup for cupcake. So, I decided to use them.

Oh, I also went to my favorite pie shop. It was so delicious!!! It was so YUMMY!!! You know what I am talking about!!! It is my favorite PIE Shop!!!

Oh, Sorry...back to CupCake story...
I baked them, but....... I am not sure the taste is similar to the real cupcake you can buy at the shop or not....... I hope CupCake taste is good... Just Hope so...

Anyway, I really enjoyed to bake CupCake! Thank you, Amy & Ricky!!!

You know what!!! I should re-start cooking again!!! I love cooking!!!



Common Fig Pie Cake


Grapes Pie Cake


CupCake!


CupCake!!


And, CupCake!!!

Do you think you want to try to eat them???

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Birthday!

Hello. I know I told you that I will update my blog, but I am so sorry little bit late to update my blog. I am sorry about my late update!

Well, my birthday was October 4th, and I got many birthday message from my friends!

Thank you very much who sent to me a Birthday message!!! I really appreciate your sweet heart message. Thank you.

Some of my friends took me to Birthday dinner. Thank you!!! I had great birthday in this year!!!
Thank you very much.

I would like to share some birthday gifts from my friends! Thank you!!!

I do not know how I should say, but I am so happy that my friends remember my birthday and celebrate together for my b-day! Thank you very much. I am so happy to see you and being my friends!!! Thank you very much.

I love you so much!!! Thank you!!!

Love Hiromi :>



Thank you, Rumi!!!


CupCake!!!


Thank you very much, Ricky & Amy!!! Love it!!!


I did not post all gifts' pics, but Thank you very much for everyone who celebrate my B-day!!!
Love you all!!! Thank you very much. I feel like I touched your sweet heart! Thank you!!!

Monday, September 27, 2010

Long time.....

Hello. How are you doing, everyone? I know you are thinking where did you go or what did you do for a long time... I feel so sorry because I did not update my blog for a long time........................

I am so sorry. I do not want to say any excuse... I know I should update my blog more often... That is true. I should constantly post new story on my blog. YES, I should.

So, will do it!!! From this week, I will try to update my blog more often. Should make more time and share my stories with you.

Well, will update my blog for sure!!! Will change myself!!!

OK. Will post new story soon for SURE!!!

See you soon and soon!!!

Sunday, August 8, 2010

FireWorks!!!

Hello. I am so sorry...I did not post new story for a long time... I know I should post new story more often...So Sorry.

Today, I would like to share story about Summer Events!!! There are many events for summer in Japan. Most famous event is Fireworks. I remember that when I was in U.S., I went to see fireworks on July 4th. In Japan, we can do fireworks anytime you want. In only summer time, there are big Fireworks festivals.

Last Sat, I went to one of big Fireworks close to my parent house. It is called Edogawa Fireworks Festival. There are TOO many people ...OMG it made me sick because of population who came to the Fireworks... I had no idea that how many people were there, but TOO many.

It started from 0715pm and ended at 0830pm. I was there little late because I met with my friends around 0710pm, and we needed to walk to place we could see the Fireworks. It was no way to use transportation because of too crowded, so my friends and I walked to the place for the Fireworks. Fortunately, my brother's friends already reserved the some places which we could see the Fireworks in just front. It was quite far from station, but it was worth it.

OMG!!! We were in front of FireWorks. The sound of Fireworks was so loud, and it got on my inside. I could feel sound of Fireworks, and that remained me of YES, I was sitting in Just front of Fireworks. Just imagine that you are sitting right in front of the huge IMAX screen and watching 3D action movie...... I am not sure this is good example or not, but like that...

There were huge and beautiful Fireworks right in front of my face...It was so pretty!!!

I was enjoying the Fireworks festival. However, after finishing the Firework, we needed to go back to Station again...Most of people who saw the Fireworks went to same way, so when we got to station, It was packed with bunch of people... OMG.

Well, it made me so tired, but it was worth it!!! I love Fireworks!!!






Thursday, July 8, 2010

My Sleeping Buddy!

Hello. Today, I would like to introduce my sleep buddy. Well, actually this buddy is my mom's, but I am using her right now. My buddy does not have name yet, so please pick cute name for her!

She is always sleeping next to me in the same bed, and she is SO CUTE!!!

NOW, I will introduce my sleeping buddy.....................................

She is......................................................................................................




Ahaha!!! Don't you think she is cute??? She is sleeping with me every night!
Please give me some ideas for her name. Now I am calling her "Usa Chan". It means Rabbit, but it is saying cute way. What name will be best for her?

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Tanabata

Today, 7/7 is Japanese Start Festival!, and also related to Chinese star festival.

It celebrates the meeting of Orihime (Vega) and Hikoboshi (Altair). According to legend, the Milky Way, a river made from stars that crosses the sky, separates these lovers, and they are allowed to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the lunisolar calendar.

In present-day Japan, people generally celebrate this day by writing wishes, sometimes in the form of poetry, on tanzaku (短冊 tanzaku), small pieces of paper, and hanging them on bamboo, sometimes with other decorations. The bamboo and decorations are often set afloat on a river or burned after the festival, around midnight or on the next day. This resembles the custom of floating paper ships and candles on rivers during Obon. Many areas in Japan have their own Tanabata customs, which are mostly related to local Obon traditions. (from wikipedia)

I did not have chance to write my wish on Tanzaku in this year... I am wishing into my heart...instead of writing.


What will you wish for Star Festival?




I just pick one picture from last summer that I was wearing Yukata, which is summer Kimono. Star Festival is like summer festival, so I just pick summer image picture.

Thank you!!!

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Pocky Package!

HiHiHi again !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow, I am writing too much(???) about new stories??? Ahaha. I am so sorry about that. You may think what's happened to Hiromi!!!
Well, I just wanted to post new stories for my blog today.

I want to share one marketing story with you. Now, I am working Marketing company, and during I was reading Marketing magazine, I found cute package for Pocky.

Do you know Pocky? It is Japanese snack, and there are many flavor(?) for pocky.
Here is links for this item.
http://www.glico.co.jp/en/index.htm
http://www.glico.co.jp/pretz/tsuretette/index.htm

I do not know why, but I think this is so cute package for snack, and it is interesting idea for ad.
What do you think about this idea for packege?

I just like it, so found some special package for pocky and took pictures.

...CUTE...




Crab!!!

Hello again and again!!!

I forgot to post My daddy's Birthday dinner...We had a Daddy's B-day Party at home last month. My daddy's Birthday is June 2, and we had family dinner on middle of June because of our schedule.

My mom and I cooked together, and our main dish was CRAB!!!

My brother ordered big crabs for the party. It was easy to get crabs because he has a friend who work at fish market.

It was so huge size of crabs and it was so delicious!!! It was really sweet and tasty! We also had many other dishes and cake for dessert. I did not take too much pictures, so I could not explain too much...Sorry.

Well, we had a really great time with family, and hope my daddy had a great Birthday dinner with us.

I will just show some pictures of crab!!!


My brother made like this!!!

So, now do you feel like want to eat Crab for 4th of July meal?

Gift from Amy & Ricky!!!

Hello, again... I have many stories I would like to share with you recently, but I could not post them because I am soooooooo busy for work. So now I have time to write and post new stories.

My best friends/Family, Amy & Ricky, came to Japan from June22-29. We had many things to do, but limited time... Hope they had a great time in Japan.

I will have some stories during Amy & Ricky were in Japan, but today I would like to share the gift they gave us.

You know I have my favorite Honey from San Francisco, and I think... I posted about the honey tea story before... I bet....Anyway, my mom and I love the honey from the farmer's market in SF.

The gift they gave us was tool for honey. OMG! It is so cute. It is called" Mini honey pot & dipper". And also they gave us a honey!!!

Thank you very much, Amy & Ricky. We are already using it.

I think it is so cute and useful tool for honey!!! Thank you!!!

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

My Favorite Japanese Sake

First, I need to say...Happy 4th of July!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hope you have a great 4th of July!!!
Sorry the date on post is June 30 because I was started to write this story, but I am posting this story now, which is 4th of July. Sorry about this date issue.

Have you tried to drink Japanese sake? I think most of you have experience to drink Sake, but have you had experience to drink sake, which taste like white wine?

OMG!!! Last week, I finally opened the sake which I wanted to open for along time. I went to Sendai(which is North part of Japan) in last April of this year, and got special sake from special sake factory.

I could not open the sake because I wanted to have this sake with special people, like family. I finally got a chance to open because my best friends, Amy and Ricky were in Japan and came to my parent house for dinner. So, we had a big family dinner and decided to open it!!!

I was waiting to open the sake for a long time, and finally could taste it... :)

Taste was........................OMG................. best of the best!!! It was like white wine!!!

I love it so much. I could not stop drinking... my mom said she also loved it.
It is really smooth to drink and taste like high quality white wine!!!
It is called "extra". It is amazing taste. I just want to say "Love It!"for this sake.

I will try to get this sake hope in this year and if not next year...

Anyway, I definitely try to have this sake soon!!! because this is my favorite sake ever!!!

I want to celebrate 4th of July with this sake!!!


Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Sorry...

Hi. I am so sorry that I told you that will post about Mt. Takao. However, I am so busy for work now... So sorry. I will update my blog soon. I just need little time to become slow down...
I am sometimes a workaholic, so am working too much...Sorry.

Will post many stories soon.

Thank you very much to follow my blog.

Love, Hiromi

Monday, June 7, 2010

Monkey!!!

Last Saturday, I went to Mt. Takao with my family and my friends.

I would like to share some stories about Mt. Takao.

Today I would like to share some pictures. I bet you already know what kinds of story I want to share with you.

Story is ....... about......... MONKEY!!!

In Mt. Takao, there is Monkey Park! There are not too many, but around 30 or 40 moneys are living there.

When I was there, I saw small and tiny baby monkey. It looked like few weeks from the birth.
It was so cute!!!

I took some pictures of Baby Monkey!!!

I will talk about more story of Mt. Takao tomorrow. But, today I would like to share baby monkey picture.






Don't you think Money baby is CUTE??? OMG!!!

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Rumi's B-day!

Today... yesterday(June 7)was my friend, Rumi's B-day!!! Happy Birthday, Rumi!!!

We decided to celebrate B-day eve together.

B-day Plan 1:Movie

She said she wants to watch Movie. Movie is of course Sex and the City2!!!
SAC is one of our favorite drama. Specially she used to live in NY City!!! I watch all episodes and movie 1, so we decided to go to watch SAC2 for her B-day!!!

I thought Movie 2 was better than first one... well that was my opinion...

B-day Plan 2:Dinner

I was not sure where I should go in Shinjuku Tokyo, so she said that she went to one of Vegetable restaurant near Shinjuku Station, so we went there. I thought it was quit interesting. Not too bad, not so good. But, you can eat a lot of vegetables!!! So, I like it.

Rumi, I will take you Pie shop in Gina, so we can celebrate one more time for your B-day!!!
I am so sorry to prepare for your B-day cake...So I decided to take her pie shop which I already posted this pie store before.

B-day Plan 3:Present

I found nice and cute party bag. I also fall in love with the bag, so decided to buy 2 bags. One is for Rumi. One is for me. I pick white one, and black one for me. I want to match the image with Sex and the City, so it is shiny and gorgeous. We decide to hang out together with both white and black bag, and go to party, like Sex and the City!

So, this is the story about Rumi's B-day eve plan!

I hope that she liked it. Hope...

I took some pics from the restaurant. What do you think about the food?



Broad Bean Tempura


Bagna cĂ uda


Pumpkin Gratin


Blueberry Cheese Cake


Pudding with some fruits