Last weekend, I participated in a walking event held by JR Central. But after that they cancelled all their walking events planned to be held on weekends until March 15. Even local events in Hamamatsu such as concerts, sport competitions, and lectures are cancelled. Maybe I will mostly stay at home until the middle of March. Though I have still some masks, it is very difficult to find them at stores now. I think I’ll make one with a handkerchief if necessary. When you search with “handkerchief mask” in youtube, you can see several videos showing how to make a mask without cutting and sewing cloth.
Today, I bought a vegan box lunch at Entetsu Department Store. As its contents change from day to day except for the brown rice accompanying with the vegetables, they were different from those I introduced in January. Today’s box contained two traditional homemade dishes. One was simmered daikon radish with sweet miso sauce. This sauce was dark brown and had a strong taste, which is typical of this dish. The other was canola flowers dressed with mustard, vinegar and miso. It was a bit bitter and had the flavor of a citrus fruit. At first, I thought it was yuzu, which is often used for it. According to the label, it was orange vinegar that I had never heard of before.
The box also contained potato fried with spice, chickpeas and carrot fried with cumin, and shiitake mushroom grilled with basil (and bread crumbs). These were their original dishes and not traditional ones. I found the combination of shiitake mushroom and basil very interesting. I had thought a shiitake mushroom was a typical ingredient for Japanese and Chinese dishes. But it can be also combined with a western herb. The thick pieces of mushroom were filling and might be satisfactory even for those who aren’t vegetarians/vegans.
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