There are two loquat trees in our field.
They say February is the best season to make herbal loquat tea, so I made this tea after a long time.
The loquat herbal tea may benefit blood sugar and cholesterol, prevent loss of bone density, have anti-cancer benefits and so on.
It takes a little long time to make it, but this tea is non-caffeine, and also it's very delicious with sweet taste.
And of course it's good for diet !!
We got an order of Boat-wrap Sashimi from our customers tonight.
We have 3 plum trees in our garden, and we make plum wine in every June.
Last week we picked them up, and my wife and I made wine yesterday.
We serve our customers the plum wine which we made 10 years ago.
It means we will be able to drink the wine which we made yesterday at least 10 years later.
See you then!
My daughter got a fresh seaweed "Wakame" which her friend's parents got from Shirahama Beach today.
We had dinner with this seaweed as cooking with vegetables in a pot.
Wild fresh seaweed "Wakame" is changed its color soon after putting them into the hot water!
Thank you for wonderful present!!
Have you ever tried this?
These are Sakura Mochi and Sakura Manjuu.
They are Japanese traditional confection.
In this season we can see these sweet at a lot of places in Japan.
Sakura Mochi makes us feel that spring has come!!
If you come to Japan in spring why don't you try this?
I went to Shimoda for shopping with my wife this afternoon.
We can buy many kinds of food and drink at the supermarket.
When I got there I was vey hungry, so I wanted to buy everything!!
I came back home from Shimoda by walking this afternoon.
On the way, I was able to see a lot of Kinmedai (Red snapper) at Shimoda Fish Market.
They had just been landed!
Shimoda is very famous for this red snapper.
We have some kinds of cooking of this fish, but the boiled one is the best cooking for red snapper.
Come and try!
This is a Sashimi arrangement which we served to our customers with local Ise Ebi lobster last night.
We served this Miso soup with Ise-ebi, Japanese lobster, as an extra order yesterday morning.
Ise-ebi is a little expensive but it's very deliciout!!
They came from Brooklyn in New York and stayed
for 3 nights.
It had been almost sunny and they went to the beach every day for swimming.
Thank you for staying with us.
By the way, when they checked in they gave us presents.
These are MAST BROTHERS CHOCOLATE which are very popular in New York in these days.
It was a first time for me to see and eat the chocolate with "Chili Peppers"!!
Of course it's sweet, but it's not only spicy but also very hot!!
Thank you for these presents!!
Recently most of Japanese people eat white polished rice.
10 days ago my father in low sent us the unpolished rice cooking set.
This set has a bag of unpolished rice and a pressure cooker, so we tried cooking unpolished rice with adzuki beans.
It was not only really nice and delicious, but also chewy texture and tastes sweeter than white rice.
Of course it has a nutrition.
This is a Sashimi combination which our customers ordered on last weekend, and we provided this Sashimi with Ise-ebi Lobster.
In Izu peninsula the lobster season has already started from the middle of September, and we can get it until May next year.
Fresh lobster is tasted a little sweet and very delicious!
When we have a order of Ise-ebi Lobster we can cook it as Miso-soup for breakfast if the customer like.
Why don't you try Lobster in Japan?
Today we had a lowe tide here in Shimoda.
In this season, when we have a low tide we go to the beach to get crabs.
This is Shirahama Chuo Beach located next to Shirahama Ohama Beach.
The rocks are usually in the water, but they appeared due to the low tide.
We can get crabs there! .......
Yesterday we had a meeting with the owner of Pension came from the other prefecture, Yamanashi, Nagano, Tochigi and so on.
After that we went to the downtown for dinner with them.
I had already booked a restaurant called "Nakagawa", and started a party from 5:00 PM.
The restaurant served us the Japanese style fish meal like this.
Most of the owners live in the mountain, so they were pleased with this dinner.
Have you ever eaten raw fish "Sashimi" in you country?
In Shimoda we can get very fresh fishes easily.
This is "Funamori" which is a combination of Sashimi.
The red one at the middle of this is "Kinmedai", red snapper.
Shimoda is very famous for this Kinmedai.
It's very delicious.
Today it was sunny in Shimoda again.
As it has been beautiful days during Golden Week all of our customers are very happy.
The weather forecast says it will be hotter here tomorrow.
By the way, before Golden Week we got a green parcel from abroad.
When I found out it in a post I didn't know who sent us it.
After I opened it, I knew it was a book of cooking recipe from Sweden....
The shining crystal was rolling down at that moment.......
It started to rain last night here in Shirahama and had been raining this morning, but it stopped after noon
After I finished to clean the guest room I went out and found this.
Do you know what this is?
Our son, Yuuki, eats every foods, but it depends on his mind and condition.
For example , when he is sleepy he eats nothing or sometimes only rice.
So today's my mission is "Vegitable meat ball for my son".
I prepared many kind of foods from a refrigerator..... .
Our guests who have been staying from last night came back from the sea and said,
"We won ! Look at these a looooot of fishes !"
Yes, they went to Shimoda for fishing and got a lot of sardines like this photo.
"Ok, I am going to cook these fishes for your dinner, because we have no other guests today !" I said.......
Today it is 3rd day for the students from the United States.
This morning I went to the beach to get crabs with students, professor and his assistant.
Of course this is a first time for them to get crabs by bamboo stick, but when we started it one of them caught the crab at first. ......
We sometimes serve this dish of "Sashimi" when our guest order it for dinner.
Today's contents are Kasago, Tuna, Sea Urchin, Squid, Katuo, Ise ebi and etc.....
These contents are changed depends on fishes which fissherman has.
Befor serving it I took this photo because it seemed really delicious.
The price of this dish would be 3,000 yen
for 2 people.
Would you like to order it ? .......
Today I went to a restaurant "B Deck Cafe" in Minami Izu, near Rape blossoms field.
This restaurant's owner is a fisherman, so they provide many kinds of Italian foods, and these are not expensive.
This is a Carpaccio of local fish "Isaki".
Yes, it is very good.
They have some set menus and aracartes. I am introducing other foods.....
Have you ever had "Ochazuke"?
This is a traditional Japanese cooking.
We usually make it with, for example, rice, sea urchin, Umeboshi and green tea.
But today I used more garnishes for today's our dinner, dried fish, Konbu, Wasabi, small rice puff and Dashi soup.
It was really good ! .....
We usually serve a Beef steak as a main dish of first night's dinner.
But we started to provide this menu for those who don't like a beef or can't eat it.
This is a "Meuniere of Fish with Itarian souce" using fresh fish from Shimoda fish market.
Yes, we provide it in stead of beef for you until April 31st !
Shimoda is very famous for fresh fishes.
Especially this Shimoda's fish "Kinmedai"in Japanese, "Alfonsino" in English, is most famous in Japan.
That's why we started to sereve this meal "Kinmedai Kamameshi" as a dinner's menu from this month until the end of April.
I can't explane it in English well, but it means alfonsino, rice and vegitables are cooked with soysauce, sake in a ball.
This is Japanese traditional cooking.
Why don't you order this ?
The price for 2 people would be 2,000 yen as a extra charge.
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