This was one of those rare weekends when Kuniko has both days off. \u00a0We spent most of the time doing odds and ends around the house, and cooking foods we’ve wanted to eat recently.<\/p>\n
Friday after work we went to Tajimaya – a yakiniku restaurant that I’ve heard good things about for a long time. \u00a0The quality of meat was excellent, and everything we ate was really delicious. \u00a0The only thing I could possibly complain about was the karubi cuts were awfully fatty. \u00a0We expect a lot of fat in the karubi, but this was way over the top. \u00a0We were lucky we didn’t start a fire.<\/p>\n
After dinner we walked around the new shopping center south of Kobe station – Umie. \u00a0The building used to hold a Hankyu department store, but apparently they weren’t able to make it work. \u00a0Now it is filled with specialty shops, and we walked around enjoying some window shopping in an attempt to burn some of the calories that we just ingested. It was a fun night, but we got home pretty early and pretty tired from a long week.<\/p>\n
The big project this weekend was putting up some glass shelves in the kitchen to support some of our coffee cups. \u00a0We went out to IKEA to buy the shelves, and then I hung them on the wall in a relatively stress-free exercise. \u00a0While we were at IKEA we also picked up some LED lights to replace the standard bulbs in our kitchen, and I’m so happy with the lighting in there now. \u00a0Things are looking better these days.<\/p>\n
We also got our hands on some good food. \u00a0Saturday I grilled some pork ribs that we were able to buy at a grocery store to the north of us. \u00a0We don’t usually go there, but this time we asked about spare ribs and they sold us a big slab of ribs. \u00a0Unfortunately, the pork had a lot more fat than we liked, and the result was that we had to be a lot more careful to avoid the fatty parts while eating. \u00a0The flavor was pretty good, though.<\/p>\n
Sunday we drove out to Miki to support Kuniko’s friend Kori, who was selling bread from her bakery at a sort of outdoor farmer’s market. \u00a0Most of the booths were selling knick-knacks in the style of “farmhouse fashion”, which isn’t really our thing. \u00a0But we could eat bread, and we bought a few pieces from Kori to help out. \u00a0She was pretty busy while we were there, so that was a good sign. \u00a0After relaxing at home during the warmest part of the day we walked out to the beach to enjoy the cold water, and then picked up some groceries for dinner. \u00a0It was just salad with mini-tomatoes, some bread from Kori, and some cheese that included buffalo mozzarella that we got our hands on recently. \u00a0The buffalo mozzarella was so good I am considering where we can stable a buffalo to keep us in supply. \u00a0Yum…<\/p>\n
This week should be a pretty standard week. \u00a0Kuniko has a party on Wednesday, and I have two large group lessons on Wednesday and Thursday, but other than that it should be pretty normal around here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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