Porch Garden, Recipe, Psalm 23

How cold it is! It has been getting cold day by day. Where did the hot, hot days go away. By the weather forecast there will be no more hot days and the day is getting shorter and shorter.

Well, in this case Hiroko’s porch garden should be closed. At first, shishi-to (Japanese peppers) bushes are taken care.

Harvest shishi-to and its leaves

Wash the shishi-to leaves

Boil the shishi-to leaves and cover the leaves with the bonito stock and add shoyu, sugar and sake. Cook the leaves until most of the water has evaporated.

The large amount of shishi-to leaves becomes only little bit. However, the cooked shishi-to leaves was very delicious. Hiroko ate lots of rice with it.
Shishi-to (peppers) were not grown more than 2 inches, so they can’t cook with charcoal. Hiroko sautéed them with butter and ate it with shoyu. It was also very delicious.
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These delicious vegetables remind Hiroko of Psalm 23
Reading the verse 5 “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies” the God’ love and grace fill Hiroko’s heart. God is living and be with people.
Who are our enemies?
Our enemies are the evil spirits and ourselves. Fighting with these enemies God always prepares the foods for us and gives us strength, even though we are in a sin.