I had no idea what to cook for dinner last night. I had scoured the internet for recipes but wasn’t very inspired. So i got out my Japanese Cookbook and decided to make Niku Jaga. The only problem was i only had one potato. I did have a sweet potato though, so i decided to use both. I also threw in a few runner beans instead of peas. I added some vegetable stock because i was out of dashi.
Niku Jaga boiling away
When Yasu walked in the door he said “oh smells yum, are we having stew?” It actually tasted quite nice, probably a little more like stew as i was abit heavy on the white wine (instead of sake), but in all, very good. It sufficed for something a little different.
After dinner Yasu shocked me with the news that we might be moving to Dubai next year. The economic crunch has hit the boat building industry, and the only place to go will be Dubai, as their boat building industry is very good. I was kinda depressed at first, the thought of moving all that way. Then i did some research and found there’s a “Daisou” (100 yen store) in Dubai, so i’m pretty happy about that! Yasu is now re-thinking because after i told him that, he must have thought…crap she’s gonna spend all our money at Daisou, he knows my history with the 100 yen stores!! Lucky Dubai though, we don’t even have one in Australia i don’t think. Or any 100 yen stores. I wish we did though, that would be so cool.
So yeah, not much news to report except the above. Yasu is working on a boat at the moment, but it won’t be finished until february 2009, so around that time we’ll be assessing the situation. So no need to panic right now as some of my friends have done.
