“Relax Cat” Cedar Park, 2017
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“Rainbow” Cedar Park, 2017
Wordless Wednesday
“Relax Cat” Cedar Park, 2017
“Rainbow” Cedar Park, 2017
Category: Food
“Relax Cat” Cedar Park, 2017
“Rainbow” Cedar Park, 2017
Classic Curry Combo
“Curry Rice Combo” Cedar Park, 2017
こんばんは。Please enjoy these photos of some classic Japanese curry. 🍛 In our house, we like the combination of curry rice and macaroni salad. We find that these two dishes complement each other perfectly.
“Cute Mac” Cedar Park, 2017
Besides Japanese-style curry, I love Indian curries, Thai curries, and Jamaican curry. In fact, I don’t think I’ve met a curry that I didn’t like! 😜
“Serving Curry” Cedar Park, 2017
I hope you had a nice Tuesday.
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Back on Schedule
“Salmon Dinner” Cedar Park, 2017
こんばんは。It’s the first day of Spring! Did yours start off right?
Today Mariko returned from vacation and she made a wonderful dinner of salmon, tamagoyaki, miso soup, carrots, and asparagus. It was delicious, and so much better than the bachelor food we’ve been eating since she was away.
It’s good to be back to our normal schedule! 😝
I hope you had a nice Monday!
おやすみなさい！
– B 
Old Camera
“X-700” Cedar Park, 2017
こんばんは。
Friday, and the weather was nice. It actually hit 82° F this afternoon! ☀
Ramen Lunch
A bunch of us went out to lunch today to say goodbye to a co-worker who is leaving the company. We ate at a nearby ramen shop called “Kanji Ramen”. 🍜 The food was ok. I’d say, though, that it was below par for a ramen restaurant, although better than a dressed up instant. I got the tonkotsu and the broth was nothing special, the portion was a bit small, and the pork was skimpy and over cooked. However, the restaurant is only a few minutes away from the office, there’s no wait, service is fast and friendly, and parking is easy. 🙂 If you want ramen in Austin, there are better places, but for convenience, Kanji Ramen is a viable option.
X-700
Tonight’s photo is of my Minolta X-700 film camera. 📷 This was (is?) my dad’s camera, but I borrowed it in ’88 for a photography class and kept it ever since! I’ve run a lot of film through it, got it CLA’d when I lived in Japan, and it has never let me down (apart from dead batteries). These days, I shoot 100% digital due to convenience, but I do love the old film cameras. Mostly just to look at. I can’t be bothered to get film developed anymore. 😏 Consequently I have been selling most of my old lenses, but I’ll always keep the Minolta!
I hope you had a nice day!
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New Kitchen Gadget
“New Gadget” Cedar Park, 2017
こんばんは。How’s it going?
Today is my “WAH” or “work-at-home” day, and that means I get to sleep in an extra 10 minutes! Woohoo! I get that extra time because I can delay my shower until later in the morning. 😄 Also, I could probably stay in my pajamas until that time, since when I drop off Koa at school, I don’t need to get out of the car. But I’m not that lazy!
New pasta attachment
Tonight, Mariko got to use her newest kitchen gadget which she received as a birthday gift: a pasta-making attachment for the Kitchen-Aid mixer. It’s a nice little gadget, with a dial so you can adjust the thickness of the pasta. But just looking at it in action, I get an unsettling feeling that I would get my finger stuck in it and I’d end up with a crushed finger. 😱
Thankfully, Mariko was the one making the pasta tonight, which turned out to be delicious ravioli. I think they turned out great and everything was gobbled up in no time. 🍴
Mariko uses the Kitchen-Aid mixer quite a bit for baking, and I also use it occasionally to make hamburger using our meat-grinder attachment. It’s such a versatile kitchen appliance, I’d recommend getting one if you are into cooking at all. Plus it looks so cool!
I hope you had a nice Wednesday.
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