Hand Care Items

Yesterday, I couldn't write my diary because my home PC couldn't go online... Sometimes our LAN has a temporary problem, so this might be the reason. Hope it is fixed by this evening.

Anyway, I wish I could have a day off... my supervisor is verrry annoying. But I'm a good girl, I hardly ever take off from work!

Moaning is enough!
Today I want to write about my hand care items.
Since I cook almost everyday, my hands are brittle and cracked in winter. So this winter, from November, I started to use some hand care products!

The image on the right is Edible Hand Cream.
Since it contains edible ingredients, you can use it while you are cooking! It costs a bit but helps a lot!

The image on the left is Casabella's Water Stop Gloves. I hate to wear gloves while washing dishes but I soon got used to them. They just fit my hands!
Also, I love this kind of pink :)

Okay. I gotta go now.
See you again tomorrow.

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Crunchy Tasty Coffee Chocolate Brownies with Chocolate Ganache

Hi!
Compared to last week, it was not that busy this Monday. But badly a lot of inquires came in just before I go home...

Yesterday, I created 5 new recipes, including 3 sweet recipes for Valentines day. It was tough since my boyfriend doesn't like to eat that much of sweet stuff.

Anyway, last week I mentioned that my sister loved my brownies, so today I wrote the recipe!
Sorry in Japanese, but I will write it briefly in English.
I baked coffee chocolate brownies with walnut chunks.
Then I coated them with chocolate ganache with rum, sprinkled chocolate covered wheat puffs and decorated with white chocolate.
The crunchy taste of wheat puffs blends nicely with coffee flavor!

Oh my god, my boyfriend came back!
I gotta go now.
See you tomorrow :)

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Lucky Eho-Maki

Hi! Today it is very cold but sunny :)
But yesterday it was kind of stormy day for me. The weather was also windy but here I am talking about my life...

I first realized that the sour drink I "remade" the other day was unsuccessful :(
It's a long story, so I won't write it today, but I was shocked.
Then as usual, my supervisor was annoying!
Finally, by the time I go home, I realized that I forgot my key at home.
I ran to the real-estate office since it was just 10 past 18:00, in hope that there is someone at the office!
And that was right!
I luckily got the key and went home.
It was a tiring day.

Anyway, here I want to talk about something happy :)
February 3rd is Setsubun. It is the day before the beginning of Risshun (spring season).
On Setsubun, we cleanse away all the evil of the former year and drive away disease-bringing evil spirits for the year to come. This special ritual is called Mamemaki (bean scattering).
On this day, it is customary now to eat uncut maki-zushi called Eho-Maki ("lucky direction roll") while facing the yearly lucky compass direction, determined by the zodiac symbol of that year.
The lucky direction of the year 2008 is Hinoe direction.
I don't understand the meaning very well, but it is the direction of south by east (between south-southeast and south). Too complicated!!! So, if you eat Eho-Maki facing in that direction it will bring you luck. But just remember not to say "delicious" while eating. You have to eat all without speaking!

So today, I will show you my Eho-Maki that I made last year.
I named it "Lucky Eho-Maki".
I used seven lucky ingredients including lucky colors such as red and yellow: smoked salmon, corn, onion, baby leaves, avocado, mustard mayonnaise, and coarse grind black pepper.

I am now thinking what kind of Eho-Maki to make this year.

Okay, this is all for today.
Have a nice weekend!!!

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