Romantic Squid and Sadistic Shave Ice

broderic on October 27, 2018

Have I got a treat for you.  One of my favorites.  

「ロマンティックいか焼き」

“Romantic Grilled Squid” from Nogizaka46’s fifth single.  This version is from their 2015 National Summer Tour in their home stadium, Meiji Jingu.  This is Nogizaka at the cusp of their step towards stardom.  In the video, you get a few of the graduates who didn’t make it to Tokyo Dome in 2017, and you get graduates from afterwards, and you get those ready to graduate.  So good to see them all — like before they were stars.

They end with the future double centers of the fall 2015 single, Nanase and Maiyan.  “Kira!”  And they are on our way to be the great idol group that I love.

I apologize for the awkward framing of the video.  I still don’t understand this WP Gutenberg editor…

Link of the Day [10.27.18]

broderic on October 27, 2018

Go, Carp, Go!

The Baltimore Orioles may be in a dismal situation, but checking in on my team in the Nippon Baseball League, Hiroshima Toya Carp, I find they made it back to the Japan Series.  It’s like their World Series.  This is the second time in three years.  They haven’t won it, yet, and it’s been since 1984 that they have won it.

I wonder if Carp fans in Japan were ever thinking if they would ever win the championship again since that time.

As an Orioles fan who hasn’t seen them win since 1983, I know how it goes.

One day.  Maybe.  One day.

http://www.carp.co.jp/en/

Eh? Wha’?

broderic on October 25, 2018

Learning the ropes here.  Looking for a better blog template.  I haven’t found one, yet.  I wish I could get down to the actual HTML so I could go back to what it was before.

This post brought to you because what the eff happened to those YouTube embeds?   Like they went gigantic all of a sudden!

Also, this post is a Pulianas special.

Lechon Kawali Scary

broderic on October 16, 2018

I had some pork belly in the freezer for quite a while.  Uh, longer than I want to admit.  So I want to make something with it.  Char-sui for ramen?  Maybe. But let’s go to the old Filipino favorite lechon kawali.

Yesterday, after thawing it out over night, I boiled it for an hour.  Along with water, some bay leaf and peppercorn kernels.  I didn’t have much of those so I went to the pepper mill and dumped its contents out.  When it was done, I dried the pork off, placed on a plate in the fridge so that today I can fry that mea up!

So I did.  In hot oil.  I don’t know what I’m doing as some of that was splattering all over the place.  I had thought I thoroughly dried it out in the fridge over night.  

The oil was supposed to be around 350 F.  I don’t have a thermometer.  I eye balled it.  Not too sure, but maybe it was too hot.  It should’ve been around 5 minutes for each slab.  But I think they were done in 4.  

Now to the taste.  Okay.  I should’ve seasoned it before frying.  I didn’t and now I have to rely on the vinegar to make it tasty. 

I don’t want to eat it all, but…

Mmmmm.

Soup is Good Food

broderic on October 14, 2018

The turn of the weather into fall this weekend has made me hungry for some soup. 

I’ve had a sour stomach for the past week. Any food I ate just does not agree with me at the moment.  Then after helping out my brother’s move, we had some pho.  Did that hit the spot!

Now’s the time to break out the soup pots and start cooking some soup.  I need to get going with that!

A bean soup that isn’t black bean.  Maybe an arroscaldo.  Some sotanghon would do as well.  A fish chowder.  Some simple roasted vegetable soup.  Barley?  Yes barley!  And more pho!

I’ll really have to start making a shopping list.  But here we go.

This Is It. Isn’t It?

broderic on October 5, 2018

Sadly, things come to an end.  We’re in October and September, News Radio Quote Month is over.  I look forward to finding more News Radio quotes which I haven’t used.  Surprisingly, I blogged quite a bit.

Now we’re into October and things have only become more heartbreaking…

Nogizaka46 「それぞれの椅子」2016

This is the cover of Nogizaka46’s second album.  Their color is purple which is a mix of red and blue hence why the members are in red and blue dresses.  But this is now their time of graduations.  Another two have announced since Nishino Nanase announced hers last month.

On the first, Wakatsuki Yumi announced hers.  Then today, Noujo Ami.  Those two bring the tally of member graduations to seven.  I do not think that we’re done for the year.  And we have 2019 to look forward to.  Huzzah!

Nogizaka’s shade of purple has lightened up a bit.  Those smiling faces now make me cry.  They are breaking my heart while they make me smile.

I only wish for happiness for the members of Nogizaka46.