ChanomiTalk

Over the last couple of months since I finished school I’m been trying to spend more time with my daughter.  I’ve also picked up a new hobby.  The new hobby is cooking.  A couple of weeks ago I tried the Mexican dish “chiles rellenos” known as stuffed peppers.  You take a chile poblano that looks like a smaller skinnier version of a green bell pepper and broil it for about 15 minutes.  When the skin blackens some, you wrap them in wet paper towels or throw them in a plastic bag for another 15 minutes.  The skin should loose enough for you to peel it under cold water.  This part gave me trouble because peeling the pepper makes it prone to ripe apart easily.  Once peeled, you stuff the pepper with anything you want.  It could be stuffed with meat. My mom always made it with cheese, so I tried to do the cheese version.  For the outer coating, you beat some egg whites.  Once they are fluffy you mix in the egg yolk.  You dust the pepper with some flour and deep it in the egg mixture.  Afterwards, you put it in a frying pan with hot oil.  I am not sure where I went wrong but my egg coating kept falling off.  One of the peppers also split opened, and the cheese fell out.  In the end they tasted just like I remembered even if they didn’t quite look like it.

This year for Thanksgiving we opted not to make our own turkey here at home. Instead we plan to go down to Virginia to visit our three nieces. The eldest of the three girls was really excited to hear we are coming and sent me a text message as soon as she found out. I’m looking forward to visit them too because I know they get home sick being so far away from all the family in Texas. I’m also glad because Aleria will get to see her cousins again. She loves being around other kids, and this will be a good chance go crazy. After all, Thanksgiving is a family event.

ゆきよさんのブログを英語におきかえてみました。
I switched Yukiyo’s blog to English.

今日の朝は、元気なスズメのさえずりで、心地良く、目が覚めました。
This morning, happy birds were talking, comfortably I awoke.

でも、カーテンを開けると、どんより空。
But, I opened the curtains and the sky was dull.

その後は、ずっと、しとしとと、雨が降っていました。
After that, it continously drizzled.

あーした天気になあれ♫
Tomorrow please let there be good weather.

今日の朝は、元気なスズメのさえずりで心地良く目が覚めました。
でもカーテンを開けるとどんより空。
その後はずっとしとしとと雨が降っていました。
あーした天気になあれ♫

I am now going to run a short series on my pet peeves or things that annoy me. Some common, others weird. The first one is common for many I’m sure, especially here in Hawaii. It drives me nuts when I am behind two cars on a two lane road and they are both going the same speed. I call this the eclipse. In my mind I am thinking, “one of you has to go faster and stop clogging up traffic” but I’m actually vocalizing a bunch of unpleasant words.