今日は昼間は良いお天気で気温も２５度まで上がって暖かかったのですが、夕方に曇り始め、朝方には雨が降るようですし、明日も雨になるみたい。
It was nice and sunny during the day and the temperature went up to 25C, but started to become cloudy in late afternoon and it's expected to rain from very early morning tomorrow and tomorrow doesn't look like a nice day.
今日の夕食は、和風のペペロンチーノにしました。お庭のプランターに夫が大好きな紫蘇が大量に茂っているので使いたくて。紫蘇は毎年すごく大きく育つのですが、なぜか、お店で買う紫蘇に比べて色が薄めで柔らかくて風味も柔らかい。ニンニク、唐辛子、キャベツ、塩昆布、紫蘇を入れました。お醤油も少しと思っていましたが塩昆布がとても塩辛くて、塩昆布だけでしっかり味がついてしまったのでお醤油はなし。
Today's evening meal was Pasta Peperoncino Japanese Style. Our shiso (steak leaves) are growing tall and large in our garden and my husband loves them so I wanted to use a lot of them so decided to cook this. Shiso grows very well here but they aren't as dark coloured as those you buy from a Japanese store or in Japan, they are also more tender and the aroma is also not as strong. I used garlic, chilli pepper, cabbage, kelp in salt (Japanese) and shiso. I was going to add a little soy sauce as well but the kelp was very salty so I didn't.
わたしはオイルベースのシンプルなパスタが大好きですが、夫はオイルベースのパスタは苦手。なので、少しでも具があるようにとキャベツを加えたのですが、嫌いじゃないけど大好きでもない、という反応でした。すごく美味しかったのに！紫蘇がたっぷりなので、美味しいとは言っていました。
I love simple oil base pasta but my husband doesn't, he prefers saucy type with lots of bits. I added cabbage to a normal peperoncino for this reason, but he still didn't love it. He said he doesn't dislike it but he doesn't love it although he did say it was very tasty with lots of shiso that he loves.
お花は、お庭から積んだダリア３種類。もっと頻繁にお庭のお花を飾りたいのですが、わたしが大の苦手の虫がたくさんいて。。。なので、まず使い捨ての手袋をして取れる虫は先に取ってしまってからお水にしばらく漬けます。とくにダリアは小さな花びらが沢山あって奥の方に蟻が隠れているので、そうしないとテーブルに蟻が、ということになってしまうのです。お庭のお花を飾っている方、大勢いらっしゃいますが、みなさんどうされているのか。
The flowers are dahlias from our garden - 3 kinds. I would love to pick more often and use them inside but they have a lot of insects that I really really hate. I use disposable gloves to get rid of what I can from the stems then put them in water so I can clean them better. This way ants that are inside deep in small petals also come out. If I don't do this thoroughly, we find some ants crowing on the table. I see lots of people pick flowers from their gardens and put them in vases to enjoy inside, I wonder how they deal with them.
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