The Roubai trees are blossoming in our garden.

Hello.
This is May in Japan.

The flowers of Roubai are in bloom in our garden.

These are Roubai trees.
Roubai means Japanese allspice.
It is written in Japanese as 蝋梅. 

The Roubai trees bloom from January to February in Japan.
The flowers are yellow.

The Roubai flowers are a Japanese winter tradition.
It is a very beautiful scenery that the yellow flowers bloom in white snows.

New Black Thunder ! Premium milk

Hello.
This is May in Japan.

I introduced "Black Thunder" before.
The blog article, please click this → A snack that is popular in the public,"Black Thunder"

This is it, Premium milk.
It sells for 40 yen.
It is more expensive 10 yen than a normal Black Thunder.

It is made of chocolates with milk from France.
(I think that a French beautiful woman appears at the package, because of milk from France.)

It has a very mild taste, more than a normal one.
It is very easy to eat !!
It seems to be more popular than a Premiam bitter.

New Black Thunder ! Premium bitter

Hello.
This is May in Japan.

I introduced "Black Thunder" before.
The blog article, please click this → A snack that is popular in the public,"Black Thunder"

Black Thunder is a chocolate snack, it is cheap and very delicious.
I found the New Black Thunder, so I introduce it, today.

This is it, Premium bitter.
It sells for 40 yen.
It is more expensive 10 yen than a normal Black Thunder.

It is made of Belgian chocolate.
(I think that a Belgian beautiful woman appears at the package, because of Belgian chocolate.)

The chocolate is bitter.
It has a bitter taste, more than a normal one.

Honestly,I don't feel the sense of quality of the Belgian chocolate,but it is delicious !!
I like it !!

A recipe for Butajiru

Hello.
This is May in Japan.

I cooked a Japanese home cooking, "Butajiru",the other day.

Today I'd like to introduce a recipe for Butajiru.

Ingredients
a moderate amount of pork (bits of meat)
1 carrot (quarter slice)
1 small Japanese radish (quarter slice)
1 onion (bite-size chunks cut)
1 burdock slice
5 Satoimo (taro) (bite-size chunks cut)
1 Konnyaku (bite-size chunks cut)
a moderate amount of shiitake mushroom (quarter slice)

a moderate amount of dried bonito
a moderate amount of miso paste


Directions
1.To make preparations,parboil the Konnyaku.

2.To heat a little oil in a pan, stir-fry the pork until it gets brown, then add the other ingredients.
3.Add a moderate amount of dried bonito, add water as ingredients soak and boil.

4. Finally, add miso paste to finish.

This is the Japanese home cooking !!
We love it!!

Japanese home cooking, "Butajiru"

Hello.
This is May in Japan.

I cooked a Japanese home cooking, the other day.
The name of Japanese home cooking is "Butajiru".

This is Butajiru.
Buta means Pork, jiru means miso soup, so Butajiru means Pork miso soup.
It is prepared by stewing pork and a lot of vegetables with miso.

We eat Butajiru well at cold season in Japan.
It is nutritious and it makes our bodies warm.

I'll  introduce a recipe for Butajiru, next time.

Chicken rice by KFC

Hello.
This is May in Japan.

I introduced that the KFC menus which only Japan has.
Today I'd like to introduce the menu which became the topic before.

This was "Chicken rice".
It was the menu which was sold on February 7, 2013.

Chicken rice means a stir-fried rice dish created in Japan, with thinly sliced chicken flavored with ketchup.

But it was a burger which made from ketchup rice and the cheddar cheese with 2 fried chickens.
It became the topic because the chicken rice was out of this common sense.

It was very difficult to eat, so it was unpopular....
This menu will be never sold again.

There are a lot of menus at KFC.
I'll introduce other menus to the next opportunity.

Menchi-katsu sand by KFC

Hello.
This is May in Japan.

I introduced that the KFC menus which only Japan has.
Today I'd like to introduce the menu which was released before.

This was "Menchi-katsu sand".
It was the menu which was sold on December 26, 2013.

It was written as victory prayer in the package of Menchi-katsu sand.
Because the Japanese word "Katsu" has 2 meanings of victory and fried meat.
This was a menu sold in an examination season.

Menchi-katsu means a fried cake of minced meat.
This was a burger made from a fried meat cake and cabbage.

The fried meat cake was light and matched a source well.
It was delicious !!

Though KFC did not sell it in an examination season of this year, why??
I liked it...