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Very easy, sweet potato yōkan recipe.

The recipe for sweet potato yōkan that I often made this fall.

Ingredients

Sweet potato – net 300g

Japanese gelatin liquid – 4g stick Japanese gelatin, 60g soft brown sugar, 300cc water

Method

  1. Clean the Japanese gelatin stick and soak it in water.
  2. Wash the sweet potato thoroughly and wrap it with the skin on for cooking in the microwave. 4 minutes at 600W. Flip and cook for 3 minutes.
  3. Make the Japanese gelatin liquid, while cooking the sweet potato in the microwave. Tear the soaked Japanese gelatin into small pieces and boil over heat. When it comes to a boil, add the sugar, stir to dissolve, and boil for 2 minutes. It seems that it solidifies more easily if it is brought to a full boil.
  4. Break off the stringy parts of the head and tail of the sweet potato. Peel it. Tear it into about 5 pieces, and put them in a mixer.
  5. Remove the Japanese gelatin liquid from the heat and add it to the mixer and mix avoiding lumps left. It seems to be a good idea to stir the mixture with a spoon every now and then.
  6. Transfer from the mixer to a suitable container, smooth its surface, and put it in the refrigerator.

That’s all. After it hardens, warm it quickly with hot water, take it out of the container, cut it, and eat it. It has a simple taste which is affected by the sweetness of the sweet potato.

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Happy New Year!

   Happy New Year! It is the beginning of a new year.

   This is a year of 亥, according to the Oriental Zodiac. 亥’s Kun-reading (訓読み) is ‘inoshishi’.

   We call ‘inoshishi’ ‘boar’ in English. Boars on the image was made by my 95 year old aunt who made this for New Year celebration!

   I wish you guys Happy New Year.

   Gods bless you, guys!

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I made an external 1seg antenna for SC-02H.

I made it without understanding, but I think I got some good results, so I’ll write a post about it for my memorandum. What is it? It is an external 1seg antenna for SC-02H. Why did I make it? Actually, I want to watch Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks games on my way to and from go swimming.

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The director of ‘Hotaru no haka’ Takahata Isao (高畑勲) passed away.

   On Apr. 5 in Japan time, the director of ‘Hotaru no haka’ Takahata Isao (高畑勲) passed away at the age of 82.
   One of my articles of a very early time was about ‘Hotaru no haka’. My very first comment in English was maybe about ‘Hotaru no haka’ on IMDB. It was around 2005.

   May his soul rest in peace.

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My server have been down for about eight hours.

   I noticed I could not access the Internet from my house around 8 am. I checked my environment and found it was my router fault. After my ISP maintenance, it could not reach the Internet properly. The ISP told me this might be occurred, though. I rebooted the router and all works well now.

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A full-backup of SC-02H’s android7 by adb.exe on Windows10.

   My smartphone is SC-02H which is a name of Galaxy S7 edge by docomo. Its OS is Android 7.0 now though it was Android 6.0 when I bought the smartphone. On 2017.Oct.18, docomo announced they would give Android 8.0 to it someday in the future. I do not know when exactly because it is always late that they give a custom OS. But for that, I try to create a full-backup of android7 by adb.exe.

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Happy New Year!

おめでとう!   Happy New Year! It is the beginning of a new year.

   This is a year of 戌, according to the Oriental Zodiac. 戌’s Kun-reading (訓読み) is ‘inu’.

   We call ‘inu’ ‘dog’ in English. A puppy on the image was made by my 94 year old aunt who made this for New Year celebration! The background uses from one of the images of Momijigari(紅葉狩-2017).

   I wish you guys Happy New Year.

   Gods bless you, guys!

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Memorandum #20.

   A list of what I did recently.

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Momijigari(紅葉狩-2017)

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   It’s very clear today, so I’ve visited Takasumi jinja(高住神社) for Momijigari(紅葉狩) as usual.

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Izayoi (十六夜) 2017

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   Tonight is Izayoi (十六夜) this year. I took a picture of the Moon again. During the daytime it was cloudy with occasional showers, but at the night the Moon is clear.

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十六夜 2017