Udon Noodle for 20 People, Christian Lives

Hiroko’s church held the SNAL (Saturday Night Alive) for children and adult every first Saturday of the month.  In this activity night, church provide games, crafts, cooking (cup-cake, cookies), DVD, etc. for the children, and for the adult studying the words from the Bible with questions and answers style.  This Bible study is totally different style than sermon, so it is important Bible study time.

This gathering has been held from 4 to 6 pm, and last 30 minutes the dinner is served.  This dinner was made by the volunteer ladies.  Hiroko volunteered to make “Udon Noodle for 20 people” for 2012 October gathering dinner.

4 lbs of Udon Noodle (1 lb for 5 people)

Cooked 2 lbs. Udon Noodle.  Children love to eat noodle alone, but all the mother try to pour little bit of soup over the noodle.

Hiroko made this soup from the chicken bones stock and salt, soy sauce, sugar, and bonito powder, mixed with the broth.  With the broth seaweeds, shiitake mushroom, kikurake, fried tofu, etc. were cooked with 3 T. sugar and soy-sauce, and Bonito power.  This noodle soup can be nutritious.

The topping on the Udon Noodle

Seaweeds, shiitake mushroom, kikurake, fried tofu, boiled eggs, kamaboko (fish cake), boiled Chinese spinach, and green onion.

Cooked 3 lbs. boneless and skinless chicken thigh with shoga, 3T sugar, ½ cups soy-sauce and rice wine, and Bonito power

Hiroko used paper bowls.  Japanese Section has been making Udon Noodle every Sunday, so there are many Udon Noodle bowls, but Hiroko didn’t want to wash these bowls after the supper.  Can’t forget the seven herbs and cayenne pepper mixture, and cayenne pepper powder for Udon.

Dessert

Okinawa Gandagi.  Someone said it looks like donuts hole, but it is much different than donuts hole.  It is very delicious because not too sweet and oily as donuts.  This is Emaline’s one of the specialty dishes.  Hiroko took photo of what Emaline brought lots of them, but came out blurry.

Well, 14 adult and 5 children came to the meeting that night, and 4 adult and 2 children left for their dinner engagement.

Only 10 adult and 3 children ate the Udon Noodle the night.

Udon Noodle and topping were left so much, even though some people made doggie bags.  So, Hiroko called a member of Japanese Section, and asked to eat all the left over Udon Noodle.  She was so happy to hear that because she don’t have to cook Sunday morning.

Everyone said it was delicious.  Thanks to God!

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Bible study that night was about the Lord’s Prayer.  This year’s subject to study is “Prayer.”  Here is the Lord’s Prayer:  Matthew 6:9-13 

⁹This, then, is how you should pray:

“Our Father in heaven,

hallowed be your name,

¹⁰your kingdom come,

your will be done,

on earth as it is in heaven.

¹¹Give us today our daily bread.

¹²And forgive us our debts,

as we also have forgiven our debtors.

¹³And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from the evil one.”

what do you think?  This prayer was given to the disciples from Jesus as an example of the prayer.  Hiroko has a time no words to pray for heavy hearts, such a time reciting this prayer gives her peace and joy in the Lord. 

Pastor told us there are many ideas about the Lord’s Prayer; one group says it is the prayer of the Lord, so people shouldn’t pray, and other group says the Lord gave us this prayer, so people pray every Worship Service.

Before finishing the session, we practiced the one of the method of payer with the Lord Prayer.  We were meditating while Pastor was reading twice of the Lord’s Prayer, and find the words or phrase hitting our heart.  Now, we spent about 10 minutes listening to what the Lord is saying to us with the words or phrase.  It was very good practice to be with the Lord.  Let’s hear the Lord what he wants to say to us.