Our 7th Wedding Anniversary

We celebrated our 7th year Wedding anniversary at home, just like our past anniversaries. It's been very difficult for us during our first year of marriage because of culture differences. I thank my husband for being supportive and loving. Now, we're blessed with two kids :)

Wakaba did the decors of the cake after school

Wakaba-- doing great on cakes!!This Tiffany glass is 7 years old,too!! We bought it during our very 1st anniversary, promising to use it during our anniversary with our fave champange Moet--the memories like this are priceless!
Our Wedding Anniversary homemade cake--- made with love!!


7 years of married life, and counting!!!\(^0^)/

My Omelet Rice and Pumpkin Potage

I’d like to share again some of my homemade recipes which is so easy to make! Here it is!

How to make the Omelet Rice:
Ingredients: (4 servings)
wienner - 4 pcs
onion - 1 small size
mushroom - any kind
green peas - 30 g
eggs - 5 pcs
4 cups of rice
butter - 1 tablespoon
A:
salt and pepper
tomato ketchap - 6 tablespoon
Direction:
1: cut onions into small sizes,same with the wienner
2: start heat,add butter into fry pan,add #1 and the mushroom then stir fry for a while,add the green peas then add A.Mix, add hot rice and mix again.taste according to your taste buds.set aside.
3. batter eggs with salt and pepper
4. start heat in another fry pan,add cooking oil,then add the battered egg for one serving in medium heat,stop heat when is egg is done.top in the mixed rice in middle then fold in the eggs at both edge then turn over the pan into the platter.top in tomato ketchap and sprinkle parsley.

How to make the Pumpkin Potage
Ingredients: (4 servings)
pumpkin - 300g
onion - 1 pc medium size
buillon - 3 pcs
milk - 200 ml
water - 600 ml
flour - 1 tablespoon
butter- 1 tablespoon

Direction:
1: cut the onion and pumpkin into small pieces
2: heat the casserole and add the butter.add the onion and stir fry for a while then add the pumpkin,mix.at lower heat add the flour and mix(be careful not to burn it).
3: add water small amount in a time and mix then add the buillon and simmer.
4: when the pumpkin is soft,put them into the blender(mixer),when you see that they’re blended put them back on the casserole then add the milk and simmer while mixing.taste with salt and pepper.
5: put in soup bowl,top in croutons or parsley or just pour some fresh cream over it for added touch.

How Do I Love my HUSBAND?

I received this tag from Mommy Umma--who doesn't know Umma? I guess everybody knows her here at blogosphere! Thank you so much!\(^0^)/

How will I start?
It all started when I was still working as an entertainer here in Japan and he became my knight in shining armor. Saving me from a heck of drunkard--his friend.

I love him for fighting his love for me even though his father is against a Filipina without letting me know about it. His mother told me about their fight a year after our marriage. But now, his father accepted me like his own daughter.

I love his silly and crazy idea that made us both crazy-- like ordering 3 different kinds of coffee for a tasting and we both choosed the same kind of coffee that fits our taste!

He may not say the word " I love you " but one of the sweetest word he told me while we're taking a long, long drive is " driving with our car, listening our fave song, the sun is out and You by my side is just perfect.I'm not tired at all."

I love him for having much time for our children during his day-off--He's strict but a loving father to Wakaba and Haruka.

I've never been this open before and it's kind a cheezy!! ( blush ) but tried my best to post them here coz on January 29 is our 7th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY!! and counting!!\(^0^)/
I'm giving this tag to everyone who wants to share their love for their husband. Please grab it guys!! :)

Su Buta

This is one of my family's requested dish called Su Buta here in Japan, a sweet and sour pork dish. And I'm sharing again the recipes coz it's easy to make!




How to make the Sweet and Sour :

Ingredients: (good for 4 servings)
lean pork - 400 g
onion - 1 pc
carrot - 1 pc,small
red bellpepper - 1/2 pc
green bellpepper - 1/2 pc
option: pineapple in can,don’t discard the syrup in it
A:
sake - 1 1/3 tablespoon
soysauce - 1 1/3 tablespoon
B:
water - 200 ml or the syrup of the pineapple in can,200 ml
consomme - 1 pc (buillon)
sugar - 4 tablespoon
vinegar - 3 tablespoon
soysauce - 3 tablespoon
tomato ketchap - 1 tablespoon
cornstarch - 1 tablespoon (katakuriko)
Directions:
1: cut lean pork into small size and mix A.you can omit the sake if you don’t have then dust with cornstarch
2: cut the vegetables into small pieces and boil carrot until soft.
3: mix B,crushed the buillon if it’s not the powdered one
4: deep fry dusted pork,　170-180 degree C then set aside when done
5: in a stir- fry pan,start heat,add cooking oil,stir fry the vegetables
6: add B,simmer for a while,mix then add#4 and the pineapple(for those putting them),simmer while mixing
7: taste according to your taste buds.arrange platter.

PINK HEART TAG

I received this tag from Ate Rose and Ate Ces, Thanks a lot!! I'm beginning to enjoy blogging and meeting new friends here in blogosphere!!\(^0^)/



The 10 Commandments are not a multiple choice.


Your mind is like a parachute..it only functions when open...


One thing you can give ans still keep... is your word.


You lie the loudest when you lie to yourself if you lack the courage to start,you have already finished.




One thing you can't recycle is wasted time. Ideas won't work if 'YOU' do.


The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.


The heaviest thing that you can carry is a grudge.
Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle. A sharp tongue can cut your own throat.


If you want to make your dreams come true, you musn't oversleep.


Of all the things you wear,your expression is the most important.


The best vitamin for making friends.... B1.



The pursuit of happiness is a chase of a lifetime! It's never too late to become of what you might have been.


Life is too short to wake up with regrets.So love the people who treat you right...Forget the one's who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.


Friends are like balloons, once you let them go you might not get them back. Sometimes we get so busy with our lives and problems that we may not even notice that we've let them fly away.Sometimes we are caught up with who's right or who's wrong.Sometimes we just don't realize what friendship means until it's too late. I don't want to let that happen so I'm gonna tie you to my heart so I never lose you.


It's up to you to add image to your post, the choice is yours-- mine is my personal photo of choice.

Give this HEART TAG to everybody you love and like and touched your life in a positive way. I'm giving this Heart tag to Grace, Anabelle,Joanna,Ate Weng,Ate Kim,Mr.Richard,Mommy Umma,ReanaClaire,Chandelier,Bambi and to YOU!!

Sports Festival Part 2--Community bonding

This was taken last year of October, and I don’t want to receive a call from my in-laws during that month coz there’s always a sportfest at my husband’s hometown and we’re forced to participate for the so-called “ community bonding ” wherein the community residents gather and do some sports act. Of course we don’t have a choice but to participate coz their blocks team don’t have any other younger members(?) and I guess I don’t have much more alibis to make–last year was I have my monthly period and the other year was ….unnnmmmn!! I forgot!!! and the other year was….. lol
Well,here are some of our sports act we did —the highlights includes stretching (LOL),tama ire games ( shooting small balls to the basket),tug of war, giant geta race ( wearing giant japanese wooden slipper with a member of six, kind of hard ), relay –for the aged about 16-20’s a 200 meter race, aged 30’s, 40’s and 50’s a 100 meter race and more. Would you believe that I ( on my 30’s ) did ( forcedly ) a 200 meter relay coz there’s no one participating on aged 20’s on our team?!!huhuhuu!!! My sore muscles reminds me how important excercise is!! So, here it is……I enjoyed it very much!!!!!!! Except for the relay (T_T)


Giant Geta Slipper Race


Team work!

Hubby and I,waiting for our turn..

Shoot that ball!!

The Button Relay


Our team placed 3rd—BANSAI!!! \(^0^)/

My Rice Roll LunchBox ( rice wrapped with dried seaweed )

Here's the lunch box that I made during my daughters sportsfest at school with the recipe. It's so easy to make even without the bamboo mat for the rice roll. All you need is a wrapper!! And you don't need some rice substitute or whatever coz it's not a sushi-- it's a rice roll! It may take a while to make a perfect roll but making it is fun!! Here it is--

Ingredients: ( good for 3 person )
egg - 1 pc
salt - a few
carrot - 1/3
kinusaya ( seapods )- 6 pcs
ground meat - 50 g
dried seaweed - 1 sheet
cooled rice - 200 g

A:
naga negi ( long onion or leek ) - 3 cm
goma ( white sesame ) - 1 tablespoon
soysauce - 1 tablespoon
sugar - 1 tablespoon
sake - 1 tablespoon
goma abura ( sesame oil ) - 1/2 tablespoon

How to make the rice roll:
1: make a scrambled egg with a few salt, set aside
2: cut vegetables lengthwise, thinly
3: cut leak into bit pieces
4: put A and the ground meat into the skillet, start heat at medium and saute' .when the meat becomes brown, add the vegetables then stir fry for a while until it dried up. set aside,let it cool
5: place 1 sheet of dried seaweed on bamboo mat or wrapper, sprinkle a few salt over it, then press a thin layer of cooled rice on the seaweed ( it will be easier if you slightly wet your hands ). Leave at least 1/2 inch of the top and at the bottom edge of the seaweed uncovered ( it will be easier for sealing it )
6: arrange the egg and the mixed meat then roll from bottom to the top edge with the help of the bamboo or the wrapper tightly.Cut into 10 equal sizes and put them into the lunch box.