17 March 2010 Assorted Cell Photos
There have been some cell phone photos I’ve been wanting to share, but I’m slightly hesitant to put measly cell photos up here. But, I now have a critical mass, so here goes.
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Japanese mothers are rightly famous for their ornate bento, or lunch boxes, and I quail at the thought of competing on a daily basis. Genbo and Zoe only have bento once a month, though, so on those days I’m willing to pull out all the stops. Here is one from last week:
That’s a bed of rice covered by scrambled eggs (with milk, cinnamon, cloves, and vanilla extract, since we had extra French Toast batter left over from breakfast), mackerel (chopped and simmered for about an hour in soy sauce, fish/seaweed stock, mirin, sugar, sake, more sugar, and some more soy sauce), and spinach (flavored with soy sauce and mirin), all topped with chikuwa (compressed fish product) branded with Anpanman characters. Phew.
Finally, this is a shot I took last night after a long day of work (hey, it happens sometimes). The location is my local watering hole, 母の一味 (“Tastes Like Mom’s”). This is the owner of the establishment, whom everybody calls, surprisingly enough, “Mom” (perfectly natural in a Japanese context). I was testing out my new Griffin Clarifi, an iPhone case with a built-in close-up lens. Works pretty good (also used for the bento picture above).