Stuffed Kabocha

 My mom used to make sausage spinach loaf when I was a kid. I had a sudden idea to try making sausage-spinach stuffed kabocha. 

子供時にお母さんはソーセージとほうれんそうのパンを作った。パンの中にはほうれんそうとソーセージとチーズがあった。とても美味しかった。そう見たいのかぼちゃと考えた。

First, I cooked the kabocha a bit, so it would be easy to cut. 

切るのために５分ぐらい電池レンジで入った。

Next, I cut out the insides. 

次に中の物を取った。

Then I put rice and spinach in. 

次はご飯とほうれん草が入った。

After that, I added the meat. 

それから、肉が入った。

Then it was time to bake it and put cheese on top. It came out looking really good. 

最後にチーズを入って、焼いた。出った時に美味しそうと思った。

Of course, we wanted to see what was inside!

もちろん、中の物を見たかった！

It turned out really well, but the inside was savory and the kabocha was sweet. I think I'd do something curry flavored next time. 

美味しかったけど、かぼちゃは甘くて、中は甘くないから、多分次回に同じ事しないと思う。次回にカーレのを作るかも。

Tomato Cobbler Recipe

After several requests, I realized I need to post the recipe for the Tomato Cobbler I shared before. 

たくさん友達が欲しかったから、トマトのレシピをシェアする事のほうがいいでしょう。

I got the idea from the Smells Like Home blog. I found it last year and it was amazing. 

下のトマトのはこのブログから。

But the top had too many hard to find in Japan ingredients in it, so I went with this biscuit recipe from Spark People. 

前のブログは上のビスケットは珍しい材料が多いから、このサイトから、上のビスケットが作った。

Mid-Winter Thanksgiving

A post written before the March Photo Challenge.
これは３月の写真チャレンジの前に書いた。友達たちとアメリカとカナダのThanksgivingの晩ご飯を食べた。この後日本語がない。

A few weeks ago, Ros decided to host Mid-Winter Thanksgiving. Why? Well, Turkey dinner is her favorite meal and she has a real oven.

So at 1 pm, she put a whole turkey in a real (but Japan sized) oven. This is what came out several hours later.

Ros is proud of her turkey!

What I ate. I’d say it’s a big step up for the girl who would only eat turkey, bread and jello as a kid on Thanksgiving day.

The group of us.

Ros’ house taught me a good lesson – a bed does not make a very good tri-pod. Next time we’ll use the chair you see cluttering up the photo!

Of course, after dinner dishes had been cleared, a massively long game of hand and foot ensued. In a total flip of how the game had been going, Lina won and I took last place.