SRDas

SRDas, 5 months ago to Japan

Got my small #sousvide unit with me (#Japan 110v is fine) - but finally after 3months using it now for tonight's #Dinner prep. #Steak (no not #Kobe ) Australian #beef this looked ok - salted + touch soy overnight, touch of peated whisky and blk pepper + hint of cumin then at my preferred 54.5 ⁰C [will let this go 1+ h]
No big pot here, so just using the rice cooker pot.
Should turn out ok... for one of many courses
#AptCooking #DasInKobe
#Food #Cooking

SRDas, 5 months ago to Japan

A fair bit of train(s) rides this morning - to get to #Yuasa in #Wakayama
Will grab lunch first and then some walk around. Original plan was to spend a couple of days - perhaps in Shirahama but the cold wasn't too helpful for the beach or camping so just a day trip
#Japan #Travel
#DasInYuasa

SRDas, 8 months ago to breakfast

Lazy late #Sunday #DasInKobe #Breakfast #AptCooking decadence!
I can't get over these yolks in #Japan (I really want to know what they put in the feed!).
Partner goes for 2 eggs on toast, I finish up some leftover smoked tuna takaki (via Costco) that I chopped & doctored with #kewpie & chili oil (lao gan ma), topped w aonori & sesame seeds.
😮 soda, sweet averse partner has fanta, as I decide to go with sake (I heard whispers that it goes well with seafood; it does!) - ok this is #brunch !

Two eggs fried on a round pan with liberal pepper on them
Two pieces of toast - one with a peppered fried egg on top and the other with chopped pieces of dark tuna a reddish mayonnaise and fleckd of green aonori and sesame seeds
A plastic cup of yellow fanta on ice and a small glass cup of sake.

SRDas, 6 months ago to random

#SilentSunday

SRDas, 4 months ago to mastodon

Wait - if you subscribe to a #hashtag and mute another and they are both in one post, what happens to that Schroedinger toot? Do you see it or not?

(Does it depend on the order of the hastags?)

#Mastodon

SRDas, 7 months ago to food

Post #Dinner Kerala ish style #Chicken #Curry #Cooking
A fair bit to take in for new/current coworkers office staff - but perhaps a bit for breakfast? Ah that ̶w̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ ̶b̶e̶ is something to wake up to !

SRDas, 1 year ago to food

Spur of yesterday's moment, decided to carpe today and weekend (thanks to good hotel deal) - to show my visiting in laws DC (they'd never been). We and kids were here in April 2016 last to see things.
Left this morning and first a stop for gas at Reston VA Costco and somewhat random pick nearby for Soul food turned out to be a real winner
Steak fries, fish, fried liver, and good sides particularly collards w smoked turkey
1/n
#Travel #DMV
#Food

Metal tray with crisp cornmeal crusted catfish, fries and corrnbread
Tray with a pile of fries smothered with brown shredded meat and bbq sauce with chopped chives on top and a white plastic fork
Tables with multiple trays of food

SRDas, 1 day ago to random

Americana

A short metal pole with a spiral top that can hold a drink - with a beer can in a cozy in it, stuck into the grass/lawn next to the driveway. A portion of a folding chair is visible next to the drink holder

SRDas, 8 months ago to Japan

A leftover egg yolk from a couple of days ago and partner + kids are putting on a masterclass in #AptCooking
This #Japan all purpose flour (via Gyomu; no idea of protein content; ingredients just wheat flour) behaves quite different from AP flour in the US. With a touch of salt & bit of chili powder, thin the batter down by feel till it just coats. The slices of kabocha squash (skin on!) then get fried - our camp pots/pans have not seen this much action!

1/2
#Food #Cooking #DasInKobe

A thin yellow beige batter with flecks of red in a white shallow bowl. A fork used to mix the batter is being pulled out of the batter
½" or thinner slices of yellow-orange skin on kabocha squash in a wide shallow bowl all coated with a thin smear of batter
Pieces of batter coated kabocha squash slices being lowered with a fork and some being fried in a small round black pan with no handles on a burner on a gas stovetop

SRDas, 7 months ago to random

Continuing* exploration of #sake .
Another small bottle (and among the nicest bottles) but will definitely get bigger! Fridge cold - could taste the umami & slight syrupiness that thinned out and turned sweeter by the next glass. First sake I've had I could imagine how it might be warm (and it'd be good).
Maybe it helped I had fried fish and fried rice just before but this Kenbishi is terrific.
h/t @takosix & @YamaguchiSake for turning me on to this!
#Drink

*see https://mastodon.online/@SRDas/111182064616755010

A small bottle of the Kenbishi sake held in a left hand

SRDas, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to Osaka

🧵 1/8
Reserved our spots a long while ago - for a #chusen #dye #factory #tour
This is in #Sakai south of #Osaka but away from the other places we'd visited* a few times. So a different set of trains & a bit of a walk (nice sunny morning with cool weather).
We'd seen info on chusen and #tenugui at the Sakai traditional crafts museum - that had nice displays and videos. But we wanted to dig a bit deeper, especially for the kids to see

#DasInKobe #Travel #Textiles #Japan
*https://mastodon.online/@SRDas/111072906238265850

SRDas, 8 months ago to random

Backpacks, camera,
Hat, mask
Makes a fair difference the order you put them on so the straps aren't in the way when you need to access/remove one of them

Random #TravelTip

SRDas, 5 months ago to Tokyo

An entire afternoon most excellently spent with family yesterday at #GhibliPark in Mitaka #Tokyo
It's mostly just a large building with 3 floors. A whimsical and beautiful space - no pics allowed inside just in the outside portions. Leaven/MrDough & the Egg Princess was the #StudioGhibli short in the theatre. Seeing the drawings and paintings of scenes was quite amazing. Highly recommend (book in advance - get tickets via Lawson)
#DasInTokyo
#Japan #Travel

Opened Door with stained glass with Princess Mononoke art . Outside is a building wall completely covered with ivy with just 2 yellow small windows showing.
The giant from Castle in the Sky on the rooftop at Ghibli park. Blue sky with clouds abive
Entrance to Ghibli park Mitaka with a huge 6' Totoro inside rice booth

SRDas, 5 months ago to Japan

Long 🧵 1/n
Our #Chusen #FactoryTour in #Sakai * was a lot of fun though a while ago - so we were super excited we got a call back for a factory tour of the Suma Seaweed (#Nori ) Factory.

Prologue1: They had a booth/tent at the EatLocalKobe event at #SumaBeach in Oct that we went to in Oct. They said the factory was at the end of the beach and to contact in Dec for tours.

#DasInKobe #Japan #Travel

*https://mastodon.online/@SRDas/111306237686489578

Posters (in Japanese) hanging on the inside of a temporary shelter with text and pictures of the seaweed harvesting process and subsequent processing steps to make nori sheets
Poster in the inside of a covered shelter. In front - hanging from the frame of the shelter is a string of oyster shells tied up together through small holes in them. These are used to plant the seed for the seaweed

SRDas, 6 months ago to Japan

What.A.Day!
Great day at #Nagasaki Univ. Q&A after seminar went in for 40mins - maybe because you can encourage even college students to speak up if you offer stickers (hot tip, let the shy kids at the back who stay on, come & get stickers after anyway)
Then a most fabulous shabu shabu dinner with Kagoshima pork (+ sake) in an amazing environ

Sorry no more details now - going to bed - I have to wake up for a 6am zoom panel (4pm US) 😳

#ProfLife
#Japan #DasInKyushu

Stickers (not stuck) on the top of a desk with fingers pointing and picking out. The stickers are science themed. One is a test tube with the text "#Steminist" , another is a picture of a dog in a lab coa with text "Science Lab", another is a beaker with blue liquid and bubbles and text Quit Overreacting
Nighttime pic of a lantern lined path in a lush Japanese garden leading to sliding wooden door with slats
A big round platter with slices of pork arranged on it and a metal bowl with dashi on an induction top, all on a red table

SRDas, 7 months ago to Japan

Home/apt now - and the last 2 things I picked up shikuwasa citrus (at airport) and umi budo (sea grapes). My host at OIST mentioned the umi budo at dinner and said I'd get it at the airport but I found a shop selling #Okinawa sea stuff on my walk. Not to be refrigerated (they shrink)
These are very interesting - crunchy, pop & dissolve in mouth and taste like seawater and oysters

#Japan #Food #Seaweed

Sea grapes in a hand
A tray of sea grapes and a bag of shikuwasa citrus the size of small limes

SRDas, 4 months ago to random

Strolling 100 yen shops (Daiso, Seria) as a break from packing, trying not to get more stuff.
But so many convenient useful tools here - easier to say no if it's plastic, also easier to say no if it's heavy 😅
I guess I like grocery and local stores as touristic entertainment...

Anyways here's a pic of another did not buy item, just saw and kept myself entertained

#DasInKobe

Close up of text on the packaging cardboard of the jumbo peeler: ジャンボサイズ The tear of a thin, long cabbage finishes quick, and beautifully. Slice of onion.

SRDas, 8 months ago to breakfast

Living the best apartment life for my kids!
Picked up this tray of cut salmon from the Daimaru last night - kids love salmon for #breakfast
And we had sushi rice from dinner (will fill you in on that in a bit), so et voila
#DasInKobe #AptCooking #Food #Cooking

2 slices of salmon on a small round (camping) pan
A small round black camping pan and a round shallow porcelain bowl - each with a slice of salmon, a small mound of rice, slices of oshinko, and a bit of seaweed salad

SRDas, 4 months ago to random

またね

SRDas, 4 months ago to food

I must say this zojirushi #rice cooker (carted from Japan) makes terrific rice - jasmine now, what we have at home in Pittsburgh and it's way better than our old (Aroma) cooker. A touch dry/hard (on normal setting - will use 'soft' next) but fragrant and fluffy, distinct grains (not as bunched as old).

Great meal with my partner's genius freezer long-marinated #lamb thrown together with frozen #spinach #curry (if you will). Non chopstick #food this
#Food #Cooking

A big pot with brown curry with a lot of spinach
Rice in a bowl topped with lamb & spinach curry

SRDas, 4 months ago to Japan

Side street fishmonger
#Nagasaki #Japan #Travel #Photography #StreetPhotography #DiJP

SRDas, 1 month ago to random

This time around in Oxford Mississippi for the 4 day conference, I had the time for a quick stop at a grocery store. It's the best place to pick up local items/foods.

Initially I was a bit dismayed at the grits offerings at Kroger. Besides the Quaker brand 'instant', these were the only others. Being a self respecting type

• I only picked up one pack. Should have picked up more! This is quick (not instant!) - but that 'cooks in 5 mins", nope - takes 15 and is very good! (see next)

A yellow box with red top that reads Dixie Lily quick Grits - enriched white corn. Cooks in 5 minutes.

SRDas, 9 days ago to Pittsburgh

Decided to give the kids a bit of a treat and perhaps support the not kids anymore but young band nevertheless - #GretaVanFleet playing at PPG Arena in #Pittsburgh
Up in the nosebleed with kids (partners enjoying quiet time at home). Opening act Mirador is pretty good.

Stage in darkness lit up with blue lights from high above
Indoor stadium setup with a stage in the distance

SRDas, 23 days ago to food

Been 20+ yrs and even tho partner and I saw it a few times then, we can't seem to remember too much by way of specifics/details.
Rewatching now and it's the overall treat we recall. Hilarious too

#Food #Movie #Japanese
#MovieNight

Two people sitting and reaching out towards bowls of raamen in front of them
Chopsticks picking up pork from a bowl of ramen. Subtitles say Caress it with the chopstick tips

SRDas, 22 days ago to Japan

Kid1 uses their blue steel (aogami) (#1 😳*) that I picked up at a hardware store in Shimabara #Japan to make short work of some cabbage for knife practice.

#TeachYourChildren #KnifeSkills #Cooking

*Wasn't on the cards (they have ok knives) - but couldn't pass up