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The Niku-Jaga is considered and epitome in the Japanese kitchen. It gets a spicy and sweet flavor thanks to the sugar and soy sauce. The kind of taste is very common in the Japanese cuisine. You can find it also in other dishes such as sukiyaki, chicken teriyaki and sake simmered fish.  Cooking Japanese Niku-Jaga is not so difficult if you follow the following steps. (The method of preparation shown here is when using a microwave)

These are the ingredients you’ll need:

• 4 Potatoes (600g)
• 200g thinly-sliced beef
• 1 onion
• 8 thin slices of fresh ginger
• 4 snow peas (already boiled and string removed)

※ Additionally:

1. 4 tbsp of soy sauce
2. 4 tbsp of sake
3. 4 tbsp of sugar
4. 4 tbsp of water
5. 1 tbsp of vegetable oil

How to prepare:

①　Peel the potatoes, cut them each into 4 or 4 pieces, and soak in water during 5 minutes. Cut the beef into pieces of about 3 cms. in long. Cut the onion into wedges of 1 cm. thick.

②　Combine the soy sauce, sake, sugar, water, and vegetable oil in a microwave-safe bowl. Add the beef and the fresh ginger, spreading them out over the bowl. Add the potatoes and the onios, covering the other ingredients with them.

③　Make a drop-lid by placing a silicone baking sheet the same size as the bowl in Step ② directly on top of the ingredients, and weighting it with a small dish. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap, leaving the sides open a little, and heat in the microwave at 600W for 25 minutes.

④　Place in a large serving bowl. Cut each snow pea into 3 or 4 pieces, and scatter these over the top of the dish.

Japanese Niku-Jaga

I just read there’s a new drink made from Unagi!! I like Unagi but I don’t know how it would be the taste of it as a drink.  Read on the news that it is “yellow colored” and contains extract from the head and bones of the eel!!

Anyway, I think I will try it and see for myself how it tastes.

This is the pic of the unagi nobori drink, it costs just 140円

One year ago, we got a car as a present from one of my brother-in-law’s friends. The car is a Toyota Windom. Here are the details of this car.

型式（type certification）:　E-VCV10　3VZ
年式（model year）: 1992(?)
車検（car inspection）:　H21年6月1日 (car inspection valid until: 2009/06/01)
距離（miles）:　72,500km 19年5月22日 (72,500km as for 2008/05/22)
事故歴（accident history）　無し (none)

We are currently paying 31,500円 (292USD) monthly for the parking. It is pretty expensive. Since we haven’t used it more than a few times, we have decided to throw it or give it away. Even if we tried to sell it, we wouldn’t get any money for it.

Next week, a recycle company will take the car for recycling it or to send it oversears (its final destination might be somewhere in Africa!!). Unfortunatelly, we will receive no money for it!

I took some pics of the car, please see them below.

Here is a way to implementing 301 redirect on your domains using htaccess.

Insert the following code into your .htaccess file.

RewriteEngine On
# redirect to preferred www domain
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Just replace “example.com” for your own domain.

筋子＝Salted salmon roe.

The other day my wife was eating “sujiko”. I’ve been in Japan for more than four years now but I still can’t eat that. I took a picture of it, here it is.

salmon roe