Visiting a Shrine ☆

It was a beautiful winter day, and Christmas eve also, I visited Kitano-tenmangu shrine that is well known for the gods of study enshrined.

There hung a big Japanese ema (pictorial offering) on the gate. 2014's symbolic animal (Chinese zodiac sigh), horse! 

We wash our hands to purify ourselves before worshiping at the shrine. Sorry for forgetting to take a picture of main shrine! 

I bought some New Years lucky charm there. 

And....hmmm...What a pity! Food stalls are closed!!  :'(  The fair day is the 25th of every month, so there will be a great crowd tomorrow!! 

No problem! I have icecreams in my freezer ♪♪♪ hehehe 

New Year's Decorations!

I went to nearby DYI store and found this! Wow! New Year's pine and bamboo decorations! Where're Christmas trees?? hahaha 

My grandma sent me a box of mandarin orange(Mikan). 

I gave some to my neighbor and she gave me sweet potato(Satsuma imo)! Wow!! It's purple inside!! I deep fried it. 

Yummy!! :)))

Crab Tomato Pasta!

Hi there!! 

I just got crabs and made pasta. They are already boiled so it's easy to cook. 

The hardest part is to break up the crab meat into pieces. I pricked my fingers on it several times. Ouch! 

Fry chopped garlic with olive oil, add canned tomatoes, crab meat and season it with salt and black pepper.

Need a glass of white wine? Perfect! ヽ(´▽｀)/