{"id":513,"date":"2004-10-19T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=513"},"modified":"2004-10-19T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-19T11:53:00","slug":"make-your-own-soba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":"Make Your Own Soba"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rain has really started to come down lately, and tomorrow a new typhoon is threatening Japan. This year has had an unseasonable amount of typhoons, and I’ve gotten two days off work from them. That’s pretty nice.<\/p>\n

The bad news is I have to take an umbrella in to work every day. Today somebody swiped my umbrella from the rack in front of the school, which is apparently a common occurrence. This is the first time it happened to me. I’m trying to think of a diabolical scheme to keep it from happening again. <\/p>\n

After classes finished today Mr. Komuri had invited me to join him in making homemade soba noodles. We gathered a group of teachers, did some shopping at the local grocery, and made them from scratch. The base is a buckwheat flour that Mr. Komuri buys in Nagano. It was fun to watch, and amazing that noodles actually came out of so much kneading and hard work.<\/p>\n

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Afterwards we ate the soba in the traditional style, served cold and dipped in a soba sauce that we spiked with various vegetables and wasabi. It was great – an awesome meal. The key is having all the materials to do it – you need a big board, rolling pin, special buckwheat flour, etc, etc. I’d like to do it at home, but I think I’ll just wait until Mr. Komuri wants to make it again.<\/p>\n

I came back home using a spare umbrella that I had stashed away for such an occasion, and bought some ground beef at Ito Yokado. I had a big taco meal with a couple of beers – they’ve started carrying Anchor Steam beers next door. At almost $4 for a bottle of the beer, it’s pretty pricey. <\/p>\n

I did a little bit of studying, and then watched “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” on my computer, downloaded via the web. I also cleared off my back porch in preparation for the big one tomorrow. We’ll see if it lives up to the hype.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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