English Diary Futile Daydream

• 2007/04/29 Chazuke
• 2007/04/26 In my garden
• 2007/04/23 souvenirs
• 2007/04/21 lily of the valley
• 2007/04/20 full belly
• 2007/04/18 hamburger steak
• 2007/04/16 pizza
• 2007/04/15 Agrigent
• 2007/04/14 hotel
• 2007/04/13 Taormina
• 2007/04/12 dinner
• 2007/04/11 Malus halliana
• 2007/04/10 Sicilian
• 2007/04/09 Alberobello
• 2007/04/08 Matera
• 2007/04/07 yummy
• 2007/04/06 Pompeii
• 2007/04/05 Capri Island

 I ate Chazuke as a brunch on the holiday when I got up late. 

 It became warm, and we had a lots of rain, too.  So many flowers bloom in my garden. Is this an iris or something else?  I do not know the name. 

 It is a tree planted in my backyard. This tree has red beautiful sprouts. But I forgot the name as usual.  

 This is a blueberry. I know a name of this tree well. The reason is because I eat the nuts in autumn.

 This is reeves spirea. It seems to be called Japanese snowball ( or oodemari).  It is greenish a little.

 You know this flower well. It is a lily of the valley.
Such a white flower has already bloomed when I thought that I soaked a red fruit in autumn.

I thought that was berry. But I found such white flower,cute !

 I just noticed after I took the pictures, there were so many flowers in my garden.

This is a souvenir for me. In fact, I wanted to buy a jewel, but I had no time to go shopping, and because south Italy was the country side. There were few nice shops, and movement took time.

 I bought only one ceramics unwillingly. It is　yellow color in blue. I heard this was the hue that Sicily was unique.

 And this is a dried fig. When I went to Greece last time, I bought delicious dried fig and ate. Therefore I intended, in addition, to be delicious and bought it of Italy. Of course this was delicious, too.

 Variegation German lily of the valley bloomed.

 I give neither water nor manure to this flower.  But this flower seems to match sterile land.

 Please try to spread. You can see a small flower.

 This is the last supper in Italy.
The hors d'oeuvre was pasta as usual. It seemed to be totally udon, no! it seemed to be the dumpling which was totally long than I said udon. So, it was a dumpling  dish of tomato taste.

 The main dish was a saute of fish. I was able to hardly eat all because it was oily. Do you see it?  potato is always added.

 Most of my cookings do not have any names. But there is a name in this. It is a name of a Japanese-style hamburger steak.

 I put mushroom and leek on the hamburger steak which I baked thinly, and added slice onion, tomato, and potato.

 Of course it was very delicious. It takes time to cook and sometimes feel troublesome. But I think a delicious thing is still delicious.

 I cannot express my feeling of happiness when I ate delicious foods in other words else.

 It is lunch of the sixth day in Italy.
I was able to finally eat a pizza. But hors d'oeuvres are fried potato. What on earth is it??? ・・・・・

 It is a pizza of south Italy which I waited to wait.
As for it, bread dough should be thin.
But I cannot see it thinly.

  I did sightseeing not only I ate. This is a famous church Monreale, we can see big Jesus Christ.

 Recently I may have got tired of visiting such a church.

 The supper in a hotel of Agrigent. It is fried Mozzarella cheese that came out first. I love cheese.
 Next is ravioli. It was hot and delicious.
 Main dish seems to be a beefsteak. But I never think that this is beefsteak. The color and taste were like pork. It was not yummy.

The Italian guide, he can speak 6 languages.
But there seemed to be no Japanese guide in Sicily and he explained us all of things in English.

 It goes without saying that I stick to him and walked.
He picked off one almond and ate. It is sweet and seems to be delicious, but, according to the gesture that he eats it, I cannot think so.

 It was sure that he was Italian-like man's looks, and as for what I could say, he was surely handsome. 

 It is the hotel where I stayed at in Agrigento of Sicily. A semitransparent door is provided for a bath of Italy and Spanish hotel.

 Even if they are four stars Hotels, there were a few hotels without a refrigerator. 
The hotel had the history, and it seemed to be a quite Italian hotel and was wonderful. Besides, interior decoration was fair.

  I liked the wooden floor of antique look. That was nice.

 I think this hotel was the best in this trip.

I remembered that this was pasta of the sea urchin. 

 This is one of the dishes which it was easy to eat in this trip most：a saute of fish.

 I cannot remember a name of this dessert.　But it is a noted product of Sicily. A thing looking like fresh cream is sweet cheese. Of course I was not able to eat this entirely.

 I bought a cake of Sicily for my family after I looked at famous Greece theater. These European cakes are made neatly visually, but it is not taste of an at all Japanese direction. Therefore I bought them only four.

 This is Mount Etna.
It was fine, and it was perfect weather for Mount Etna observation.  

 Half-Japanese, half-Western, this is supper last night.

  Pork  piccata, simmered Japanese radish and carrot with fried tofu, cream soup of the vegetables which chicken was in, launce with white radish.......and "mekabu",  I can't find out the name of "mekabu" in english, and salad: the oaf(udo) which I sliced was matched up.

 It was a birthday of one of my family.  And then I bought a cake. The cake to eat slowly was delicious while having tea with a new cup.

 Malus halliana bloomed neatly this year.

 Unfortunately there is not the splendor of last year  because I asked the older gerdeners to trim the trees.

 But the pink flower which I love is beautiful as always.

 The distance to Sicily was long.
I left a hotel in morning on the day and took lunch at a restaurant and got on a bus for three hours again. However,  I thought that there might be a good method to reach there, for example, boarding an airplane.　 

 A ferry for Sicily was big and arrived in just approximately 20 minutes. 

 I ate pasta these days and got tired. Though I did not know whether this pasta was an article for Japanese or an article for old men, it was too weak.  

 This is fish dish after obvious pasta appeared. I was not able to eat it, It was dry, and a smell was bad.  

 Not the picture which is in the middle of eating this, when "thank you for the (yucky)delicious meal" I said.

 Naples seems to be a European downtown area? there were many cars, and the town was full of garbage.

 Look! It looks delicious!
But I was full, and I was not able to eat gelati in all the time. so poor me.

 I went to Matera cave dwelling sightseeing. 

 Lunch before sightseeing, this is dish simmered in tomato source of an octopus, and soup of gram and ait, It was not yummy....but soft....

 The cave group house which dug out a rocky mountain. 

 These are boiled Spanish mackerel, a Chinese style dish mixed cabbage lobster and bean-starch vermicell vinegared, and japanese clam-soup.

 In the busy middle, I prepare supper in this way every day.　This is the same style quite before.

 I used to eat rice and main and side dishes. long time ago, I always made them much more,　but it had made me plump.

 I think less foods  look like poorness, but, on the other hand, it is happiness for me. If it is such a meal, I cannot gain weight. But I ate a lot of rice yummy!

 This is me. This is not a shadow by any means.

 I became a black person in this way unexpectedly because I was warm, took off a jacket.

 Somehow I went to famous Pompeii after visiting Capri Islands. I was surprised at it very much in a very big town.  I think that it was the times when Japan where it is sure made straw-rope patterned pottery.

 There were shopping districts in Pompeii in the time, besides, seems to have been considered to be it to drainage of sewage.

 I often travel in the Mediterranean Sea coast, and am always surprised to height of culture.

海老入りリゾット 

火山が爆発しても逃げることができなかった奴隷

掘り起こした当時のまま　石膏で固めたらしぃ〜

よって・・・・　指先やつま先からは骨が露出している  
パン屋のかまど

現在のピザ焼きの原型らしい
地中海沿岸は行き過ぎたのか・・・・

心なしか「感動した」写真が少ない

6((((≧▽≦))))9

 I changed an airplane in Milan, and I who arrived at Naples went to the Blue Cave on the next morning.

 It was fine and warm day, but I was not able to enter the cave because wind was strong, and wave was high.

 The sea of Capri Islands was blue all, and the water shined in cobalt blue by condition of sunshine. It was very beautiful.