Anna N

Thanks! Depending on the weather and on @Kerry Beal‘s peregrinations this may have to wait until spring. But it is certainly something to look forward to.

Ham and egg onigirazu.

You must have been reading my mind. Before I posted anything about our last lunch I had mentioned to @Kerry Beal that a trip to J-Town was surely in our future. We used to go there occasionally. It’s always an expensive outIng but they do carry things that are not available elsewhere in terms of Japanese ingredients and Japanese gizmos. My sense of geography never was good and since I’ve stopped driving has become even worse. I did not make the connection between J-Town and Zen. Your input is always appreciated.

Pork and potato stirfry. This is a different way to enjoy potatoes. They retain some crunch unlike most other preparations. Here

Indeed. I think I will reserve the Brazil nuts for personal consumption.

Well the inner container of the 6 quart is my go-to vessel for Sous Vide when I am using my Joule. 😂

What a delightful sentiment. Thank you.

Perhaps I should have kept them all at home. Not everyone is familiar with Brazil nuts and my suspicion is that these were not as wildly successful as other cookies for this group of people. I did get a thank you but it was more polite than enthusiastic.

Ah. But not so easy to get it just right. Yours looks perfect. It has been many years since I had a custard tart. I would be happy to sample yours.😋

Thank you. Had a look at the website. Seems well worth a visit if we end up in that area. Lunch is only rarely a destination in its own right.

It is very hard to find decent Japanese food where we tend to travel. I have no doubt it is available somewhere in the GTA but so far we have not stumbled across it.

Pink! From label. I did think you bought a couple. My mistake. Shame.

Thanks to the most accomplished and unconscionable enabler, @Kerry Beal, I am enjoying these.

If I’m not mistaken @Kerry Beal did pick up a couple of the lemons so we will have to wait for her report on those.

Today @Kerry Beal and I headed out to Brampton to scratch in itch that Kerry acquired when she fell down a rabbit hole last night! While she researched/shops she asked me to look up Japanese restaurants in Brampton. I ran across Toshi. It looked promising. Tea for Kerry. I loved all of the pottery at this place and especially this tea cup. Warm Ozeki sake for me. Grilled calamari. This just did not do it for either one of us. I found it boring and Kerry detected some ammonia. If it truly was grilled then there was no hint of any smokiness whatever. Ramen for Kerry. Certainly tells you why you should hold off on your Ramen cravings until you can get to a Ramen shop! Chicken yaki udon for me. Again, the bowl caught my attention more so than the food in it. Afterwards we popped into a nearby Oceans supermarket and Kerry spotted these intriguing pink tiger lemons.

Make butter!

Enthusiasm to spare!

First offering of the new year. These are Brazil nut and coconut cookies. Next time I would up the coconut but all in all I’m quite pleased with these. So pleased that some of them will not be leaving the house.

Ha ha. I think we were both thinking the same thing at the same time!

In my opinion it needs nothing except perhaps a genuflexion. 🙂

Egg soboro, salmon (canned) soboro and some blanched sugar snaps over rice.

But is it chocolate? Ingredients: Ingredients: Sugar, Hydrogenated Palm Kernel And Palm Oils, Nonfat Milk Powder, Whole Milk Powder, Glyceryl Lacto Esters, Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier, Salt, Artificial Flavor.

Looks delicious. Happy first new year. Won’t you get another one?

A bit of a cultural mishmash to end 2018. Duck fat fried potatoes, duck breast, braised red cabbage and carrot and parsnip kinpira. Warm sake as a beverage.

To be honest I had completely forgotten about them. But then I remember being so cold that I really didn’t want to remember very much at all.