There's a way.

I took part in a bread-baking class for the first time in months. It was around four years ago when I found the class, and I used to learn how to bake breads with other two members. It's been a while since we got together last, so I was so glad to see them again!
I'm still not good at cooking (to tell you the truth, I'm quite clumsy.), but I completely enjoyed every moment while I was there.
Our teacher prepared beautiful lunch for us, and we had a wonderful time eating, chatting, and laughing. I still don't know much about how to bake bread, but I'd like to take the class again one of these days.

My friend visited me with her lovely girls today. She is not only my friend, but also my rival. She speaks English fluently, so I always try to learn from her. Our children are also good friends each other, so my friend and I had a nice chat in English while they were playing together.
We had pizza for lunch that I prepared. I was very pleased to see our kids eating like a horse!

This afternoon, my children and I whipped up our snacks, which are called Ikinari-dango and originates from Kumamoto, my hometown. It looks like manju (buns filled with bean jam or something sweet). Ikinari-dango is filled with bean jam and sliced sweet potato. Ikinari means "all of a sudden" in Japanese, so I guess someone named like this because we don't need much time to cook it.








We made 15 dango, but all of them were gone within 10 minutes!
I'm so glad to know you all are happy with our homemade snacks, but did you save room for dinner???

As you can see, we had Tempura for dinner yesterday. Well, this site seems to be like a recipe book. I wouldn't say this is a recipe site, though. That's because I haven't showed you the details how to cook them! In fact, introducing how to cook, especially in English, is still cumbersme for me, sorry for inconvenience...
Like keeping a diary, writing about what we have for dinner is very interesting. As a homemaker, keeping track of menu for each day is quite useful as well. If you are a guest, you'll be served Tempura in decorum way; however, as you can see in this photo, I am reluctant to use extra dishes that I have to wash after dinner. Yes, this is a way of typical homemakers (like me).

This is what I cooked yesterday, which is called "Kaku-ni." I suppose we can think of this as one of a Japanese dish. If you want to remove excess oil from the pork, I recommend boiling the meat with tea for 20 minutes before cooking. It surely works to tender the meat and rid its s mell. The dish is then seasoned with soy sauce and sugar. I seemed to have added a bit too much sugar, but my husband said he loved it.