I filmed this with Aaron's little Flip Cam Mino a few weeks ago and then proceeded to lose The file on my computer. Glad I found it :) She was 6 and a half months when I took this, tomorrow she'll be 7 months.
I shot this wobbly video with Aaron's Flip mino 720p HD camera the weekend before last to give Kris and others an idea of what the Yokkaichi Flea Market is like.
Lots of photos I have recently started to upload and sort a lot of the photos we've been taking over the past 6 months since Ann was born to my mobile me gallery. Check 'em out.
When shopping the other day we noticed large Hokkaido scallops for about $2.50 for a pack of 10. Luckily, these ones hadn't had their yummy orange roe removed so I bought some.
This is what I did with them when I was hungry after I woke up from my 5 hour nap at 2 am after a work and then Christmas shopping in crowded Nagoya (Monday was a public holiday).
Tasty Autumn Scallops
In a large non-stick frying pan
Fry 2 rashers of bacon until crispy chop into largish pieces and set aside. Don't clean the pan!
Dip 8-10 med-large scallops in a salt and pepper mix (70% course ground pepper if possible), mainly just coat 1 side of the scallops
Add about 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil to the bacon grease in the pan, get it pretty hot and then fry the scallops salt and peppered side down. while they are cooking, move them to one side of the pan and plonk about 2 tablespoons of butter into the space on the other side of the pan. Fry one bunch of washed enoki (white thin Japanese straw mushrooms) with roots removed (or whatever long thin edible fungus you can find). Add about a cup of fresh spinach leaves and gently lift/stir everything together, being careful not to damage the scallops. add about 1/4 cup of lemon juice and a teaspoon of crushed garlic. finally, if you want a bit of spice, add 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of dried green chillie flakes (red would be fine too). I used some mum picked up for me from Herbies If the mixture is losing moisture add another splash of lemon juice and a bit more butter.
I used bottled lemon juice and garlic from a tube. Fresh would be better I'm sure.
Also, a bit of lime juice in the mix would've been good too, but limes are $3 a pop here at the moment.
Serve on English muffins (that's what I did). Would also go nicely with thin chinese noodles or rice.
I drank Dubbonet and ginger ale with this which was a good match. A dry white wine such as a Marlborough (NZ) Savignon Blanc or TK (Tim Knappstein) Savignon Blanc (Adelaide Hills) would also have gone well.
Took this last night in one of the numerous baby changing / feeding rooms we visited in Nagoya. Ann is 9 and a bit weeks old already. She weighs about 4.4 kgs now.
I shot this around the 8th of July when traveling back from Nagoya to Yokkaichi. I think this was the 12:02 train. I had a tired arm as the actual trip is about 38 minutes.
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