Okonomi-yaki

今日は午前中は雨でしたが午後からは良いお天気になりました。ガーデンセンターで大きなポットに植えるお花やコンポストなどを買って来て、少し昨日の庭仕事の続きをして、裏庭の４分の１くらいにコンポストを撒き終わりました。明日は１日雨が降るようなので庭仕事は出来ませんが、また良いお天気になったらお花をポットに植えて、コンポストを撒く続きをしようと思います。ちなみに今日はひどい筋肉痛に違いないと思っていたら、少し太もものあたりが痛いくらいで大したことはくてやれやれです。しゃがんでする仕事が多いですし重いものも持つので、腰に気をつけながらしなくては。

It rained in the morning but it brightened up in the afternoon, so we went to a garden centre to buy some plants for the large pots and also compost for potting. Then we did some more mulching with compost after coming back. I think we probably have mulched about a quarter of the back garden. Apparently it’ll be raining all day tomorrow, but we are going to re-plant the pots, pots some spring bulbs in 2 large pots and finish mulching. I expect it’ll take us a few more days, though. I was quite worried I might be aching all over today but I seem to be fine other than just a little ache on my thighs. A lot of gardening involves me squatting down or carrying something heavy so I have to tell myself to be careful with my back.

今日の夕食は、ちょっと前に話題にしたお好み焼きでした。いつものように、最初に一銭焼き、その後お好み焼き。豚バラの薄切りは手に入らないので、ベーコンで作ります。

Today’s dinner was Okonomi-yaki. Yes, I talked about it just the other day how the chef on Masterchef pronounced it totally wrong and they used potatoes as one of the ingredients. We do not use potatoes! It has a lot of cabbage, tenkasu (deep-fried batter), green onion, pickled ginger and the batter is made with soup stock, flour & egg.

As always we had Issen-yaki first then Okonomi-yaki. As we cannot get hold of thinly sliced pork belly we use bacon.

お好み焼きの生地を薄めて少しお醤油を加えて、天かす、紅生姜、青ネギを乗せて、片面が良い色になったらひっくり返してぎゅーっと押してカリカリにしていただきます。ビールのお供にぴったり。

I add a little extra water and soy sauce to the Okonomi-yaki batter for Issen-yaki. After spreading some dough on a cooking pan, I add tenkasu, pickled ginger and green onions, let one side become nice and brown. Than turn it upside down, push it all over to make the other side nice and crunchy. It’s delicious with beer.