毎年、我が家の愛犬ショコラの誕生日には 特別に犬用バースデーケーキを用意して一緒にお祝いしています。 愛犬：Chocolat / ショコラ（ロングコートチワワ・♀）は 2023/7/25（Tue）に4歳の誕...
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Hamamatsu/Sanaru Lake: "Prosciutto & Sausage Gathering from Oishi Farm Ham Workshop in Kakegawa"
我が家から程近いフレンチビストロ「L’ESPRIT（レスプリ）全と葡萄酒」のオーナーである全さんこと小田木全宏（Takehiro Odagi）さんと「陽だまり助産院」の助産師で奥様の佐織（Saori）さん御夫妻をお招きし...
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Hamamatsu/Sanaru Lake: "A Gathering for the Three Great French Free-Range Chickens, Prenoir"
The vibrant new greenery is refreshing, and the breeze is gentle on a mid-May afternoon. It's time for our annual terrace BBQ! Following last year's success, we'll once again be featuring "Pouletnoir," a premium breed of chicken from France, produced and sold by...
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Sanaru Lake Cherry Blossom Viewing: "A pleasant holiday spent under the cherry trees with a homemade bento box."
Lake Sanaru, famous as a cherry blossom viewing spot in spring, boasts approximately 800 cherry trees blooming in succession throughout its 6km circumference, including Kawazu cherry blossoms, Kanzanji cherry blossoms, Somei Yoshino, Oshima cherry blossoms, mountain cherry blossoms, weeping cherry blossoms, and double-flowered cherry blossoms. Every year, I look down on Lake Sanaru from my home...
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浜松「おうちで花見パーティー！イタリアンの出張シェフでおもてなし料理」
毎年開花を楽しみにしている佐鳴湖の桜。今年は例年より少し早い開花の知らせがあり、3月末の今がまさに満開を迎え、湖畔に訪れる多くの花見客を楽しませている今日この頃。 そんな折、大阪より来客があったため、またまた出張シェフ・...
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"Happy New Year! Celebrate the New Year with a splendid New Year's feast, 'Tomi no Mai,' supervised by Kyoto Gion Hanamai."
[Happy New Year] I respectfully extend my New Year's greetings. I hope you all are enjoying a refreshing start to the new year. Thank you very much for your support last year. This year, too, our family will be flying... in a manner befitting the Year of the Rabbit...
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"Christmas Dinner at Home with My Beloved Dog, Chocolat, on This Holy Night 2022"
Christmas is a time to spend with loved ones on this holy night. How did you all spend your Christmas? In our family, every year we don't go out for dinner during the crowded Christmas season; instead, we have a quiet Christmas dinner at home...
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"A Christmas party where we invite Mr. and Mrs. Iketeru to enjoy a full course meal prepared by a private chef."
One evening in December, as the real cold weather arrived, I invited a couple of friends to my home for an early Christmas party, where we enjoyed a full-course Italian dinner prepared by a private chef! The antique lighting in the dining room...
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Plum Preservation 2022: Homemade Pickled Plums - A New Way to Make Colorful Pickled Plums Using Granulated Sugar
Following our annual tradition of making homemade plum wine, let's try making homemade pickled plums as another plum-related activity! This year, we managed to get our hands on 16 kg of beautiful Nanko plums, so we used 15 kg for homemade plum wine, but decided to make homemade pickled plums for ourselves...
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We are pleased to welcome the sommelier and manager of Ginza L'Argent for this special occasion.
Restaurant L'ARGENT, a Michelin-starred French restaurant located in a prime location in Ginza! This time, Kibou Ogura, the sommelier and manager of L'ARGENT, visited the restaurant on a business trip during her day off...
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Enjoy the chili oil and dried sardine chili oil set from Ebisu nouvelle Chinese restaurant "WASA" as a snack with your drinks.
Located in Ebisu, WASA is a Chinese restaurant that has gained attention for its unique and creative Chinese cuisine, despite having no sign, and is one of the most difficult restaurants to get a reservation at. The chefs have worked at other famous restaurants such as Fukurinmon Shuka, Epicer in Nishi-Azabu, and Kaikatei in Gifu, known for its nouvelle Chinese cuisine...
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Plum Preservation 2022: Homemade Plum Wine - Enjoying plum wine making using unripe Nanko plums, with different types of liquor.
The plum season has arrived again this year! Following last year, I harvested some green Nanko plums from a friend's magnificent plum tree, 5kg from the home of Toyohashi artist Shintaro Ajioka, and 11kg from the home of Maserati and Porsche enthusiast Toshiro Muramatsu in Mori-machi, for a total of 16kg of green plums...
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