Christmas Tree 2011

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Oven in Use

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Beaujolais Nouveau 2011

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2008 Chateau Germain Bourgogne (Pinot Noir)

My favorite - Pinot Noir wine… Happy

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2008 Château Germain Bourgogne

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Very light meal tonight.

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Salmon paste. Loved it.

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Completed with pasta.

Cremant de Bourgogne (Sparkling Wine)









This Summer's Last Bottle

I have a plan... going to Osaka on Friday for business.
Is that going to be rough? I think so.
Why?

Look at this:



Looks like another "Irene" coming to Japan. Tyhoon in this case, not hurricane.
Yeah, seems direct hit to main island of Japan.
Surely, Osaka and Tokyo would be facing strong wind and tons of rain.

Well, I do not think that there is any space to postpone the meeting... no choice then.
Hmm. Not quite exciting...

If I still can get Osaka for meeting, I may NOT be able to return... Who knows?

Lots of thoughts not helping me much... and I turned the PC off tonight thanks to MoonFlower's suggestion.
It was to have easy dinner with bottle of wine tonight. Perfect recommendation!







It was a GREAT gumbo dish with Italian sparkling wine (spumante). Perfect match!!!

Gumbo is American dish, isn't it??? MF made a great pick out of cooking book. Happy

Frugal Living

Some readers thing that MoonFlower and I live spending so much money for luxury living.
Totally untrue.
You just see lots of neat food pictures taken for home dinner with bottle of wine or so. That is only piece of our life style... not the whole.

So tonight, I decided to take picture of ordinary supper... which is the proof that MoonFlower and I live in "FRUGAL" lifestyle. Please note! Winking

Organization: Cufflinks

Hi folks.
For me, the weekend is over... while you're still enjoying so much yourself... (presumed: in US).

I didn't do much except going out to Yurakicho-ward for window shopping with MoonFlower.
It was her idea... so we did so very late afternoon.
It was rainy outside and didn't make us feel to do something special.

MF wanted to look around about clothes... ended up buying nothing.
Instead... I picked up couples of socks for myself. It was on sale.
Also, small thing now helps me a lot...



This jewelry tray helps me to organize all cufflinks that I have.
Not really big collection... these are all I have (for certain!).

Never realized that designs are all similar... except some.
Meaning that I should look for more in terms of variety of designs, etc.
I should seek more unique design to this collection. Hahaha.

You know, cufflinks are not aways expensive and it wouldn't be that tough to widen this collection with limited budget. Will see how this effort would result. Happy

Home Repair

Hi folks!
Surely I drank quite... Good time really made me forget about how many glasses I was coming to. Hahaha.
Thus, slow morning. I didn't do anything much except sleeping in.



In the afternoon, some home repair took place for us.
To make full recovery from the recent incident... that wine glass flew over the kitchen!
Needless to mention, that glass contained some wine... you know what I mean.

So new still same design wall paper is put up and covered.
Nicely done!



For dinner, another bottle was opened.
Italian wine. I t was sparkling one...
It was very tasty!!! Sparkling was not that strong and decent.



Good ham was selected to the salad... I picked it up on the way home...
I went to shop for bringing my briefcase in... They said that it would take a month or so for completion.
Oh boy, taking much longer than I simply expected.

Will be free of charge? Donno yet.

For main of the supper, it was pizza...
Made by MoonFlower? Out of Freezer??

Nope. Came from Domino. It was pretty good!

Nearby Italian Restaurant

MoonFlower went to nail shop early in this morning and I followed her.
I was "supposed" to get massage for relaxation. Though, the place next to the shop she was receiving the service was pretty crowded and I gave up to get massage.

I spent (killed) the time, while waiting for her, in the cafe alone. Good to have iPad handy. Hahaha.

After several stops for her errands, we ended up in a restaurant nearby. 2nd visit for ourselves.
In fact, we have never been to this restaurant for supper / dinner. Always (somehow) for lunch.
(do not ask me why so... surely soft to my wallet!)



Very nice and simple interior.



Very cozy restaurant for sure.





Selected today's pasta... with pork and asparagus.



Surely sweets is extra...



Very good lunch indeed. With full of laughs with MoonFlower... I sounded crazy...
You know, where we live is edge part of Tokyo... not really fancy place.
However, still somehow we find such good place for us to spend time together... Very nice. Happy

MoonFlower and I opened a bottle of wine at the evening...
It was French - Bourgogne one.
Produced in 2005... this was EXCELLENT!

Last bottle - it was Pinot wine... which was great... but this time, white one was very impressive as well.
My gosh... two in a row... good ones kept coming.
All were the choice by MoonFlower. She's got a good taste. Happy





Bourgogne is really good... to both of us... we happened to come to good ones... another one likely???

Which is cheaper???

Dinner was ready!
It was Hayashi curry over rice. My request came true thanks to my wife.
She had never made this before... and carefully read the recipe for today's dish.



Hayashi Curry over rice...
Wonderfully made and tasty!!!



Some salad came along. Very Asian taste.

Very hot summer day...
No AC turned on but ceiling fan worked...
I was wondering if fan would cost much cheaper than AC... Any idea???

Shopping & Good Food Home

Summer is obviously here...
No particular plan for the day, MoonFlower and I decided to drive our car down to some place we had never been.

It was Koshigaya Lakeside Mall. Shopping complex for (ordinary) mall, outlet mall, and movie theatre.
Of course, we went to outlet.
It was about 30-minute-drive from our apartment. Not too far.



Today's pick - sandals. I know, summer is already here and my summer "readiness" came here a bit late. Hahaha.



Same for MoonFlower. Her readiness is associated with mine.



Home wine for the day.
My favorite "Pinot Noir."
Perfect to summer like today. Happy



Produced in 2003 - perfect choice made by MF. Thank you!!!



Around 7pm, home delivery from Ogaki...
Ogaki's famous summer sweets... Mizu Manju were sent by my father in Ogaki.



Here we go!!!





It were jello... Red beans sweet inside.

Good shopping and the day was finished with good wine and sweets! Wonderful.

Transformers

Already end of July? Yes, it is... we have 5 months to go for now.
Oh boy...



Transformers 3 in theater from this weekend in Japan and I didn’t hold much to see this movie.
MoonFlower and I selected 3D one... even though we both wear glasses... so 3D lenses to be put on the top of it... hard to keep in the right location. Sometimes, irritating... hahaha.

Well, fun movie once again... though, how come Sam gets another girlfriend like that?
How come last girlfriend dumped him after all that (from previous movie)???

Funny thing... Sam doesn’t look like good match to such sexy girlfriends... In this movie, the girl was much taller... I didn’t get it.

Sam’s perfect match kind girl... is one appeared in the “Wall Street.”

For me, I have never read comics or watched TV series... so the story of this movie is from that or original... I do not know. The story is human-like... conflict of interest and different way of thinking... among robots. Hahaha.

This time war took place in Chicago... so where is next?



On the way back home, we picked up a cheap bottle of sparkling wine...
I didn’t hesitate to open it tonight. It is rare to do so in Sunday evening.
Oh, I do not have to work tomorrow. That’s why...





We just had salad after that... that was it for our supper tonight.

Last Supper at Home in June

Chicken dish for supper tonight.
MoonFlower’s home-made. This is going to be my last supper home for a while.
Yes, I am going to be out of country... that is why.

Everything was fine... until then...

Before summer arrives, our wine inventory should be cleared up... so here is one bottle for tonight.



Bourgogne here. It is MoonFlower’s pick.



AOC - A. Bourgogne C. - not so highly ranked... but recommended.
I guess MoonFlower’s source was by Japanese expert... must be good for Japanese drinkers.



It was rose-like. Very light and thin... Perfect to this kind of time in the year!
Yes, this was really good one.





Finished the dinner with pasta.

Well, everything was fine until then...
One of wine glasses got dropped and the wine was spread all over the place... It was a BIG MESS!
I didn’t do it. It happened as an accident, though (of course, it was an accident!!!)

Last Home Drinks in May















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House Cleaning

National Holiday

It was off for national holiday today... making it to be extended weekend til this day!
Well, because of disaster still going on, I (we) do not feel anything like a good short holiday.

MoonFlower and I spent time entirely in the house for doing, pretty much, nothing.



Pasta & Cake



This is what MoonFlower fixed for supper. Very good! Happy




Bourgogne Wine

No drinks for a while... particularly due to earthquake disaster.
Well, we, MoonFlower and I, try to bring everything back to normal. I know, this is in vain.
However, we opened a bottle of wine tonight.







We should keep our lives going and try to stay normal as possible.
Of course, we do all kind of assistance needed to those who are surviving...
Nothing fancy for ourselves... but try not to do nothing for ourselves, either.

No big dinner. Along with that bottle, just ham and cheese... No big dish, I mean.

pucci tie already arrived

Wow, super fast! Already here...
New tie... from pucci brand.





Very colorful to match the spring season! Pink and white.
Cannot wait to wear this for the 1st time.

Home-made



Another Valentine's Day 2011

Nothing from MoonFlower on St. Valentine’s Day... Well, it was not quite.
I was even wrong about that???
Well, I didn’t receive anything yesterday - St. Valentine’s Day.



Today, one day after, got some chocolate cake from MoonFlower.
Said to me, this is for Valentine’s.
Thank you!!!

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Ikea, Waffle and Sparkling Wine

We made our first visit to IKEA this year... our minimum mission was that we return Christmas tree for full refund. Yeah, IKEA Japan practically gives a way Christmas trees for their customers. We surely took advantage of that program.

So the holiday season is now officially over!

After that visit, we moved to Omotesando for some appointment.
MoonFlower previously arranged some appointment at a cafe.
She wanted to come to dine the waffle... some special waffles.



1st dish... salad waffles with ham and salmon.



2nd dish... dessert waffles.



Made by the famous cook...

Dinner took place home with bottle of sparkling wine tonight.
1st small home party between MoonFlower and me.

MoonFlower bought this book in the cafe...







Baron de Breban - very tasty dry sparkling wine...
This can be our standard for home party from now on.
I should keep this name / brand in the record.















Eating and drinking at slower pace than usual...
Yeah, we usually made the dinner very quick and we took it slow this time...
However, the end of party was the same... the alcohol really knocked me down! Hahaha.