2011 Easter Celebration Dinner

This year, 2011, the Easter Celebration dinner was held at the home of Lisa and Dave for the first time. Thanks to Lisa for letting whole family come togather to gather for the all occasions.
The daughter (Holly) of the semi-proffessional cameraperson who took many photos of the Christmas gathering for Hiroko, sent the following photos taken by her I-touch.

Dave and Lisa Dan-san and Lisa

Dave’s brother, Cris and Dan-san Dave’s mother (Joyce) and Hiroko

Cris and Hiroko enjoyed Adult Chocolate Milk
The first sip of the milk made Hiroko chocke because of the sweetness or strong liquior taste. It was a very tasty drink.

Cris’s last name is Mateers. The name is printed on his green shirt. Isn’t he looking like Elvis?

Lisa and Hiroko

Where is my plate? Cris and Holly’s dog named Tussy. This dog eats everything, so he can’t have anything from the table. Sorry!

These photos were taken very well with I-touch. Video pictures of the dancing girls taken with I-touch were also sent to Hiroko, so they are posted in the middle of this article. Please enjoy them.

Now, from here all these photos were taken by Hiroko with Olympus camera. Please don’t say they are so different. It is very difficult to take the moving objects Well, these shaky photos might be effected by the adult milk.
 
Mateers family came on time, and they were relaxing when Dan-san and Hiroko arrived.

Joyce, Dave’s father, Ranny and Holly is daughter-in-law to them

Cris and his daughter

Appetizer Table

Easter celebration appetizers were little bit different. Dave’s new dish Special Coroket. Mashed boiled potato and mix ham, eggs, and parmesan cheese. Put another cheese cut in squre in the center of corokets while shaping them, and deep fry. Delicious corockets. Spinich dip made by Holly with crackers and chips, and couple of different cheeses and sausages and salamis. Be careful eating too much.


Dan-san enjoyed appetizer Joyce enjoyed Adult Milk


Cris’ daughter was preparing her pajama for changing before going home.


Cris was showing off his shirt.

What was Dave cooking in the kitchen?

He had just taken out the pork tenderloin for today’s Entrée. Pork tenderloin was baked with sauer-Kraut. It was very good recipe for pork.


Dave’s cousin had just arrived. First, they had some appetizer, then drinks
They brought these yellow tulips. Spring had come! Spring had come in this home!


Here came the famous chef and friend. “Because of this chef we can have these expensive tenderloins for the Christmas and the Easter dinner.” “Thank you so much for the beef tenderloin we enjoyed at Christmas.” “Please have some drink!” “Shall I bring the Adult Chocolate Milk?” “No, thanks! I’d like to have beer.”


Isn’t it good to have a barbecue party with this grill in summer?

"Daddy, how does this work?""Well, Let me see!"

"I think I can now."
“Well, it is not a time for dinner, yet.” “Let’s do game dancing?” “Let’s do it!” “I had been practicing since Christmas. I’d like to show it to Elsa. Where is she?” “Elsa is working at home.” “This is family gathering.” Why can’t she come.” “Her boss said Elsa doesn’t have children, so any emergency works could be assigned to her.” “What is that he is saying?” “Isn’t it discrimination?” “Does it means someone who doesn’t have a child is less valuable?” “Let’s call Elsa.” “Well, well, please let’s do the game dance!”



No need to explain for these photos.

Please click YouTube to see video pictures of the game dancing taken by Holly with her I-Touch.







Oh, Dave’s father started making salad. Our dinner would be ready soon.

Dave had also been finishing his Potato dish. With 3 lb. potato he put l lb. butter. WOW too much butter! Well, only tonight! However, Dave uses lots of butter all the time, said Lisa

Pork tenderloin was done. Dave started to cut tenderloin and placed on the sauer-kraut.

Dinner Time
Where is the photo for Salad? FORGOT TO TAKE PHOTO! SORRY!

Holly’s green beans and bacon dish, and Hiroko’s dish – ham and vegetable tempura

Here is Dave’s pork tenderloin and potato dishes

Bread

Gave grace for the food by Dan-san


“Father in heaven: Give praise and thanks to You for who You are and what You have done for us on the Easter Sunday 2,000 years ago. With Your death and resurrection we can have the righteous life and freedom. Thank you for this family gathering to celebrate Easter. Thanks for your care and guidance of each one of them here. Thank you for all these delicious foods. Ask You to provide good meals for the people who aren’t fortunate. Thanks again for your love and grace. In Jesus name, Amen.”

After dinner all the young people washed dishes and packed doggy bags to take home within short time. Thanks to the hands for doing these work.
Give thanks to everybody and special thanks to Lisa/Dave for opening their home to provide warm and wonderful place to celebrate Easter.

Dessert Time

Here came Steven’s girlfriend, Amanda’s banana pudding and heavenly hash baked with her grandma’s recipe. Her grandma used to make these for her and brother. Heavenly hash was made with marshmallow, coconut and fruits mixed with whip cream. They were heavenly delicious


We understood how the dog feel.

Happy Easter!

Good Night!

HuliHuli Seasoning, Recipe

On January 28 and February 28, Hiroko posted about the various seasonings. Among the seasoning, Dashi Soy is made with soy sauce, dried mackel and bonito powder, rice wine and monosodium. Sprinkling Dashi Soy over the any boiled vegetable make very tasty. Hiroko was told this is very expensive seasoning, so wasting to make soaking sauce for Teriyaki chicken. However, Hiroko had already made Teriyaki chicken with Dashi Soy. The recipe was posted in the article called “Fermented seasoning” on January 28.

HuliHuli is made with soy sauce, sugar and ginger. Hiroko tried to make many dishes using HuliHuli requested by one of Hiroko’s blog readers.

Teriyaki Chicken with HuliHuli (no photo)
1 ½ lb. boneless and skinless chicken thigh
Make sauce with:
½ cup HuliHuli
½ tsp salt
½ cup sake or wine
Soak chicken in the sauce over night, then barbecue or broil
It was good. Hiroko’s family members ate this.
Some Hawaiian Japanese prefer to add orange juice.

Kara-age chicken

Coat corn starch on the soaked Teriyaki chicken and fry ½ inch deep oil
Everyone likes this chicken. It was very tasty.


1 lb. Skinless and boneless chicken breast – cut-up in small pieces
Cook in the same sauce of the Teriyaki chicken
½ cup of HuliHuli, ½ tsp of salt and ½ cup of sake or white wine
Hiroko’s family members did not enjoy this dish because it was too Japanese taste.

Oyako-don - making with chicken (Oya-parents) and egg (Ko-kids), therefore Japanese gave this name for this dish

However, made Oyako-don with the left over dish was favored by Hiroko’s family
Add 1 cup chicken stock – make sure there are enough sauce
Add 1 small yellow onion – sliced
Boil the chicken and onion in sauce
Pour beaten 3 eggs over the chicken and onion sauce
Serve this chicken over the cooked rice

Chicken steak (4 people)

2 skinless and boneless chicken breasts – sliced thin in small pieces
Season with pinch of each pepper, garlic power, rosemary, red hot pepper, thyme, and cumin
Make frying pan hot and melt ½ tsp butter
Broil or fry the chicken in pan
Sprinkle HuliHuli over the chicken, and it added a little sweet taste. It was very tasty

Gyu (Beef) Don (bowl)

1 lb. small pieces beef
½ tofu – cut small pieces
1 carrot – thin sliced with peeler
Pinch - sea-weed (wakame)
Cook in the same sauce of the Teriyaki chicken
½ cup of HuliHuli, ½ tsp of salt and ½ cup of sake or white wine
Serve this cooked beef over the rice

Hot Buckwheat Noodle (No photo)
Add 2 cups of chicken stock to the left over Gyu-Don beef
Boil this soup
Pour the soup over the cooked buckwheat noodle
Everyone loved this noodle dish

Using Vegetable
Chinese Cucumber

1 cucumber, half skin off and cut into bite size
½ small onion, slice thin
Dressing: 1 Tbsp HuliHuli
1 Tbsp Rice Vinegar
½ sesame oil
Soak the cucumber in the dressing
It made everyone happy

Boiled Vegetables - Broccoli and carrot, or Spinach

Boil broccoli and carrot, then cut into bite size, or spinach with white sesame seeds
Sprinkle HuliHuli only
Both were very tasty

Seasoning is necessity to make any food tasty. Young people know how to use many different kinds of seasoning. Thanks to our nephew Steven and Dave to teach Hiroko how to use seasoning. Seasonings are very important for cooking
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Jesus told Christians to be the salt of the world.
Matthew 5:13
“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses it saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.”
What did Jesus command us with this verse? What should we do to be the salt of the earth?
There may be answer to know how the salt does for food. Hiroko thinks using the salt for seasoning food, and preventing from spoil. As a Christian, Hiroko would like to think and meditate how and what kind relationship having with the world as salt.
Let Hiroko know your opinion.