Huh???

I had planned to go hunting today. I woke up to the worst blizzard I have seen in 5 years in Sapporo. Instead of going hunting I spent the day shovelling snow, reading news websites and feeding my birds.

Back to work tomorrow!

Jus

My mother's Christmas tree and decorations

I got an email from my father. He took pictures of my mother's Christmas decorations and tree. Mom always has an amazing looking Christmas tree. My mother hand-made most of her Christmas decorations, including her collection of Christmas dolls.
enjoy,

Jus

Merry Christmas Day!

I had a good day today. Santa Claus brought me a new pair of Hunter Royal Hunter boots: http://www.countryattire.com/products/hunter-royal-hunter-wellington-boots--dark-olive.html and I am very happy with them.

I cooked Christmas dinner today. I'll tell you how to make a bread stuffing to put inside your chicken, then how to cook your chicken in your oven range.

For the stuffing you need 3 slices of white bread, 1 or 2 spoons of dried savoury, 2 onions, 1 clove of garlic, olive oil and salt and pepper.

Cut your bread into 1cm pieces and put in a big bowl. Cut your onions into very small pieces and put in with the bread. Add your savoury. Add some salt and pepper and about 3 spoons of olive oil or melted margarine and mix everything together.

Next take your chicken and open the bottom, between the legs. You then need to put all of the bread stuffing inside the chicken! Trust me when I say YOU CAN fit all that bread into the chicken. Push it in there! See? It does fit! Ok, now your chicken is stuffed and you need to close the bottom with some toothpicks or some string. I use toothpicks.

Now you should put your chicken into your roasting pan and heat your oven to 230C. I put black pepper and sea salt on the skin. The salt will help the skin to be crunchy (this trick also works with roasted fish). I cooked this chicken today for about 1.5 hours and it was perfectly cooked when I finished. I spent a long time sitting in front of the oven and just watcing the chicken to be sure it was fine and not burning!

Tonight's Christmas dinner was delicious. I hope Santa Claus was good to everyone!

Merry Christmas, everyone.

Jus

Merry Christmas!

It' s Christmas Eve! I've had a big day. I went to the zoo today to see the Komodo Dragon and for supper I made Nachos, which is one of my favourite things to eat. I only make it once a year. I'm gonna tell you now how you can make it, too:

You need a bag of Doritos corn chips and salsa (Jupiter in JR Tower Square), some mozarella-type cheese, some ground beef or pork, sour cream (Kaldi in ALIO) and some salt and pepper for the meat.

1st you fry the meat and spread about half your bag of chips into your oven dish.

After your meat is cooked, put half of it on the chips along with some cheese. Then, put another layer of chips and the remaining meat and cheese on top. Then put everything in your oven-range on 220C for about 10 minutes, or until the cheese has all melted.

Now set your table with the salsa and sour cream. I like to take a few chips and dip them in the sour cream or salsa, then eat them. Enjoy them with your favourite person.

Merry Christmas to you!

Jus

Goshawk's (オオタカの) Christmas dinner!

Here is a picture of KK3 eating his early Christmas dinner yesterday at Fushiko River.

Christmas CROW!!!

Justin

FINISHED!

Whew, decorating a tree isn't easy. Well, it IS easy but the difficult part is getting everything JUST RIGHT. I'm a little bit picky about Christmas trees, so I am glad it is finally finished.

I hope you enjoy the pictures. By the way, I will show you how to cook Christmas dinner on the 25th. I will post pictures of each step and give you the basic recipes. My Christmas dinner can be cooked by anyone in Japan with an oven-range (オーブン　レンジ). I hope you enjoy your weekend, everyone.

Justin

WOW!

It's been a long time since I posted on my blog.

I've been interested in the world economy recently and I've been following business news everyday. I think things will be bad, for a while. How bad? I have no idea!

BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT, it's Christmas season and I'm in the spirit of the season.

I got some new lights for my Christmas tree, today. I ordered them from Hong Kong.

Here's a picture of my tree. I'll show you some more pictures after I put some things on it.

Jus