今年も床瀬にいきました！ 「ふる里」でしんそば食べました！ We went to Tokose again this year to eat Soba at my friend’s place, ’Furusato’.
It’s a four-hour drive from Kyoto. All that way, just to eat soba? Not only the soba… Read on and drool.
なすのわさび和え、そば茶 Eggplant pickled in wasabi, with Soba-cha tea.
野菜の煮物 Slowly-simmered vegetable ‘nimono’.
山女（やまめ）の塩焼き Charcoal-grilled and salted river fish, ‘yamame’ (the name means ‘mountain woman’).
ゆうこちゃんが喜ぶ！ Yuko-chan getting excited.
やまめがもうそろそろ死んでいます The yamame are still alive… just.
へへへ～！山女殺しやたちが深い反省を示さない No remorse for the yamame assassins, Sasha, Fumio and Yumiko.
自家製こんやく Freshly-made ‘devils tongue’ with ‘yuzu’ citron sauce.
鶏の「まつば」Mountain-chicken on the wishbone. It is called ‘matsuba’ as the bone shape resembles ‘matsu no ha’, pine-tree leaves.
ゆうこちゃんが食べます！Yuko gets stuck in.
なおみちゃんとTopherも Naomi and Toph too.
ふみふみとゆみこさん Fumio and Yumiko.
満願寺唐辛子、どんこ椎茸、やまめ Manganji green peppers, the best shiitake mushrooms and yamame.
山の幸が凄い It was quite a spread that the mountain had laid on (with some assistance from my friend Taniguchi-san).
「ふる里」の床瀬そばだ Finally we turned to… Tokose Soba. Taniguchi-san made the buckwheat noodles freshly for us (as always). They were magnificent (as always).
そばとやくみ、最高！Served with grated wasabi, yuzu citron and negi welsh onions. Perfect.
Aaronと私は「7」ちゃんで行った。皆さんお疲れさまでした Aaron and I went up in the Seven. As you may well imagine, it was a lot of fun.
Aaronが撮った写真はここでござんす Aaron’s far superior photos are, I have just realised, here: http://f.hatena.ne.jp/aaron/Toyooka/
やっぱ、山男が出ってきました Here is one of aaron’s photos of the Lesser-Spotted Tokose Mountain Baboon.. Notice the unusual hair-styling, and the wild bulging eyes that indicate that the wild creature is about to devour something.
Some of the Pictures lying around my House 最近見家でつけった絵
バーン＝ジョーンズ氏の作品ですね。
サー・エドワード・コーリー・バーン＝ジョーンズ（Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1833年8月28日 – 1898年6月17日）は、イギリスの美術家。ラファエル前派と密接な関係を持つデザイナーで、ラファエル前派をイギリス画壇の主流に押し上げた。同時に、自身も数々の精巧で美しい芸術作品を作り上げた。
These are from a Christies’ auction catalogue, and are by Edward Burne-Jones, the pre-Raphaelite mate of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris. He was also Rudyard Kipling’s uncle.
The ‘woman carrying her pug’, and sitting under the bird-filled tree with him is the socialite Olive Maxse. Here is his rather more flattering portrait of her:
Sash’s Home Cooking サシャの家庭料理 美味いぞ～！
Here she is her severest critic. Needless to say, she passed with flying colours.
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