Recipe: Protein pancakes
Back in May this year it was National Vegetarian Week. I decided to go veggie for a week, and since then have pretty much been pescatarian (vegetarian but with...
Category: Food
Breakfast. AKA. fun ways with eggs
The best way to keep your diet healthy is to cook your own food, and the best way to do that is to keep the preparation of it as easy and simple as...
Abs-olute resolution
Latest gym vanity shot – mid-September. Looking sweaty and moody ;) Anyone who’s in their early 30’s will be well aware of the feelings of “ohshitohshitiamgettingold” that occasionally regularly rear their...
Mochi machine
Mochi are Japanese sweets made from pounded sticky rice and normally filled with sweet red bean paste. You have probably read me talking about them before, or heard me writing about...
Kyushoku – Friday 16th July
Meant to post much more of these, but in my haste to eat kept forgetting, and now suddenly find myself here: at the last kyushoku ever. A truly sad day. Clockwise...
Killing in the supermarket
Only in Japan could you go to the supermarket on a Sunday afternoon to find two men, each wielding a stake and a big knife, working their way through a tank...
A great day out
Last weekend I met up with Hitomi, one of the teachers from Shinden, where I taught last year. I hadn’t seen her for ages and it was really good to catch...
Kyushoku – Thursday 20th May
Am trying to make a point of only posting lunches that are different from the ones already covered, and, after nearly a months absence, yesterday’s fitted the bill! Clockwise from the...
“Off to buy rice. In Japan, a true test of ones decision-making skills.”
That was my latest (admittedly banal and self-indulgent) Facebook status update, but as I wandered down to the supermarket it occurred to me it could be a potential blog post. As...
Kyushoku – Tuesdsay 27th April
Another day, another delicious lunch. Anti-clockwise from the gyunyu: Fish with miso sauce Cucumber with sesame dressing Gomokugohan – go is “5”, moku is “eye”, although in this case it means...
