2010/07/30

Summer vacation

This summer is so hot. By the way, I often harvest tomatoes.

Next month, I'll go to my parent's home to spend a time with my family during summer vacation.
I'll take frozen tomatoes to my father because my father likes tomatoes. I hope he'll like them.

After summer vacation, I have to prepare autumn's vegetables.

- rocket



I often harvest leaves of rocket.

These are tomatoes.



When I can't eat tomatoes, I freeze them.
My friend told me this way.

2010/07/23

Basil and extreme heat

I harvested tomatoes again.

I ate dried fish "Himono" as dinner.


It is so popular to eat dried fish with grated Daikon "daikon oroshi".

Of course, I like grated Daikon.
So I often eat fish and meats with grated Daikon.

By the way, it is the hottest summer in 2 years according to news.

Yesterday, tokyo was so hot. News said that some people died of heatstroke during the heat wave.

I like summer. However, I hope autumn will come soon.
I kept to run the air conditioner while sleeping because it was so hot in the night...

Of course, I will do run the air conditioner tonight.

This is basil.



I will harvest them soon.

2010/07/22

Japanese bean "Edamame"

Todady, I harvested 3 tomatoes and lettuce.
Recently,

I ate a salad of lettuce and boiled chicken.

This morning, I found this.


This is green soybeanEdamame. It is so cute! When I found it, I laugh.
In Japan, it is popular to eat boiled green soybeans "Edamame" while drinking beer in the summer.

2010/07/21

The harvest festival of grape tomato

I planted tomatoes in my balcony in May. They are so bigger.





In my balcony , there are 4 seedling of tomatoes. I hope I'll harvest many tomatoes this summer. I hervested tomatoes.



I am so happy because I like tomatoes!!!

So I made a pizza of tomato and basil.



This is a plants of lettuce. I often harvest lettuce in the morning.



Today, I harvested radishes.



It is so hard to water all of plans 2 times a day for me. Sometimes, I would like to stay at home because the temparature is so hight. But is is so fun to grow plants. So I'll keep to grown plants in my balcony.

2010/07/19

Japanese cold noodle "Somen"

It is a boiling hot day in Japan. I have to water all of plants. A few days ago, I harvested lettuce. Then I ate summer roll of lettuce.



I ate Japanese cold noodle "Soumen" because it was so hot!!!


We often eat Japanese cold noodle "Somen" in the summer.I think there's nothing like Japanese vermicelli during the summer.

2010/07/01

Madagascar Periwinkle

You know I like to go to garden centers.
I often go to there in the weekends.

In the last weekend, I went to there.
Then I bought summer flowers.

- Catharanthus



-Begonia



I enjoyed gardening every weekend.

I harvested radish and lettuce. Of course, I planted seeds of radish.



In the night, I cooked the dinner.

This dish is Japanese food "Yakitori".



Especially,I like chicken gizzard.
It is called "Sunagimo" in Japan.

I will try to make Yakitori at home.