Mushroom

I found Mushrooms besaide a road when I walked in an evening.
It looks like a yellow-shimeji which I and my family used to take out to eat from forest.
However I am not sure it is edible mushrooms or not.
It is so difficult to distingish between edible and not edible.
Sometimes, people take a mistake and eat non-edible it and suffer from food poisning.
So this time, I just took a photo, that this time. That was all in order to keep away from a bad happning.
Any way, it is a good example, English weather is likely to be wet.
This is reason why there are mushrooms on the usual road.
I like it, of course.

Osechi-ryōri

My friends visited to my flat from north east of England by coach.
They brought us 'Osechi-ryōri' which they made themselves.

Osechi-ryōri are traditional Japanese New Year foods and almost Japanese difinitly eat them on 1st of Jenuary.

Kinpira-gobo is a name of one japanese food which contained carrot and lotus root.
Unfortunately they could not find out lotus root so they made Kinpira-gobo by using celery insted of it. However tast was really good and interesting.

Anyway,
I am very lucky because I had Osechi in the UK, too.

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Christmas Day

In this morning, my husband went to the Criss street chapel to attend christmas mass.
When he was on the way there, he wated Bus for long time.
After several minutue, he rearized there were no bus today.
We now understand everything, in the UK, almost all shops are close and there are no public transports on the Christmas.

According to him, there were five people in the to him, there were five people in the chapel. I think perhpus most people went to their home town and there are a went to their home town and there are a dew people in central manchester.

In the evening, we went to our landlord's house to enjoy having a good christmas day.
We ate vetnam food, Arabic food and British food.
Every thing was fantastic.
Especially, I like traditional British Christmas Pudding with Cream.
It was the first time for me to eat it.
Do you like Christmas Pudding with Cream?

Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas!
Today was Christmas Eve so I cooked some beautiful food.
I made Japanese Carry Soup and white breads.
My neighbour gave us Nann and Kebab.
Then our christmas eve dinner became much better.

Have you ever tryed Japanese Carry?
If not yet.
I really recommend you to do.
Japanese Carry is good tast and not hot.
I like it.
Most Japanese boy and girls also love it.

Christmas event

There is Christmas event in Cross Street Chapel.
Some people read Bible and every body listened it.
I heard it from my husband since I did not go there, unfortunately.
I like sing a gospel because words are grateful.

Christmas Presents

I have got some Christmas Presents Today!
At first, My landlord gave me handmade sweter which is so lovely design and colour.
Second, one parcel reached my flat from Japan in that evening.
I opened it immediately.
I found there are many Japanese foods, for example Omochi, traditional pickled radish, Wasabi, Soy souse and so on.
I enjoyed making Omochi.
Do you like Omochi?
Omochi is used to be baked when they eat.
I cooked them and they became bigger and bigger.
It was really fantastic.

The 30th Anniversary

Today is the 30th Anniversary of londlord's wedding!!!
So I went to their house where is not far from my flat.
We had a good time and it was a heartful day.
We had a beautiful champagne, fruits, a lot of pistachio and British scones which I made.
We talked about Christmas in the warld and their life, especially Mrs landload's life in past time.
She is a grate woman, has big power.
Anywasy, I enjoyed chating with them and having wonderful champagne of 14% alcohol.

Holly Mince Pie

I had a Mince Pie in criss street chapel. It was a first time fo me to eat it. I felt strange something, but it was not bad.
What is the MInce Pie?
There is no meat, inspite of called mince pie.

I found that recipe in M.E.N of 14th, Dec, 2007.
According to the article(for 6lb mincemeat),

350g seedless raisins
225g sultanas
225g currants
110g cut mixed peel
350g chopped dried prunes
350g soft brown sugger
450g cooking apples peeled, cored and grated
225g shredded suet
Grated rind and juice of 2 orenges and 2 lemons
50g each chopped almonds and pecan nuts
15g mixed psice
5g freshly grated nutmeg
150ml brandy or rum

There are so many provisions.
I am completely astonishment.
However, I like a mince pie because there is something exotic and ancient taste.
Also, I like custom regerding to Christmas.
Useally, people eat a mince pie during Christmas Holliday.
This is the reason why Chapel gave me a good mince pie at cross street chapel.
I enjoed having it with milk tea.

White Bread in Heidi

I made Heidi's white bread because I love the Heidi story and bread, especially a white bread made from the Alpus.

As Heidi enjoyed the white bread, I enjoyed it, too.

In my case, I have them with butter and Cafe latte.
It was really good time, inspite of living in the UK but the Alpus.
It dose not matter, more important thing is that it was also first time for me to make a bread. So I did it.

Next time, I will make them a lot, and I will give my freiends.
I cannot wait.

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Heidi(Penguin Readers:Level 2)

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British scone

Do you like British scone?
I really like it.

Have you ever made British scones?
I made them Today!
Look!!

Supraisingly, it was first time for me to do.
I just followed instraction of recipi, but I changed a little bit.

My recipe(for 3 scones) is
20g bread flour
80g self-raising flour
35g butter
1 tbsp caster sugar
30ml milk
a little salt
1/3 cup raisins and grated orange peel


Next time, I will try to make the Traditional Sussex Scones.
This is mentioned in the website as you can see below.
http://www.history.uk.com/recipes/index.php?archive=18

Unitarian

I think Unitarian in Manchester is important in British histry, because almost important people joined in this community. For example, Charles Dikens, Florence Nightingale, Charles Darwin and Mr and Mrs Gaskell.
In addition, Rupert William Potter who is Beatrix Potter's father, also conected with Unitarianism. Therefor his sttitude towerse her drawing and writing about Peter Rabbit etc, was positive.

 
In city centre of Mancheste, there is the Cross Street Chapel whrer Mr Gaskell worked as a Minster.  This is the church which I like.
 

Cross Street Chapel Web
http://www.cross-street-chapel.org.uk/index.php

The General Assembly of Unitarian Web
http://www.unitarian.org.uk/

Christmas markets

I went to Christmas market in Albert Square.
There are big sausages, lovely sweets and pepole.
I really enjoyed looking everywhere because those display were beautiful and exciting.
Many people had king-size glass of beer and sausages.
They looked like satisfied.
I felt Christmas there.
So Christmas is just around the corner

Medieval recipe

Today's an article of M.E.N was wonderful because a special gingerbread was writen. This is a hot topic to me.
I am really interested in gingerbread now, and that was Medieval gingerbread which was introduced by her and Manchester University.
There are various spices in biscuit.
What a wonderful biscuit is!


Quoting ANGELA'S RECIPE from the article.

Ingredients:
2lb Plain Flour
1tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
2tsp Ground Ginger
1tsp Allspice
1tsp Cinnamon
1tsp Cloves
12fl oz Molasses
8oz Brown Sugar
3 oz Vegetable Shortening
6fl oz Cold Water

Instructions:
Cream the sugar and shortening, add molasses and water, then gradually add the dry ingredients until a pliable dough is formed.
Leave to stand for 2 hours before rolling into shapes.
Bake at 175 degrees for approximately 10 to 15 minutes.


Angela Kelly. ’Medieval recipe for success', M.E.N.,3/12/2007. avairable from here.

Gingerbread Man ?!

My class mate gave me some cookies as a christmas present.
I found interesting cookie which shape was Man!
What is this?
Tast was Ginger.

After that, I beccame to know that was Gingerbread Man.
Very cuuuuuuuuute!
Also, there are several stories about this.
Do you know that?

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