Cleaning futon

In this humid and rainy season we are very annoyed without drying in the sun, especially futon.
It's very comfortable sleeping in the clean and sun lighted futon.
It's also said there are innumerable
numbers of ticks in the futon.
So I was worried and wanted to remove them.
Finally I bought "Raycop" to help clean my futon.
I ordered it on Saturday around at noon and it arrived yesterday afternoon on Sunday!
I was so surprised at the so quick arrival. It made me satisfied to have got rid of ticks from the futon.

Weekend quiz

Weekend quiz

Summer vegetables

There are 8 kinds of vegetables Mariah growing. Thanks to her I can eat fresh vegetables.
First of all I quickly started to use basil to make into basil paste because the leaves have to be in fresh.
Next is to make pickles of radish with salt and press for a night and then add sweet sour.
I'm going to cook "sauté eggplant and sweet pepper with miso".
What else should I do with potato, peas and green papers?
Danshaku potato and string peas would be boiled and into salad.
What else would you recommend to cook summer vegetables?

Quinoa

I learned about "quinoa",which is grown around the Mt.Andes and high nutrition. It's been much reputation as a very perfect food recently.
I bought it in the market store in Perth when I visited my daughter.
I sometimes cooked with rice.
It tastes good texture seems like tapioca or rice cake.
Yesterday I happened to watch TV program and they reported about quinoa. They introduced good recipes of it.
It's getting popular using quinoa in salad or sandwiches sold in the special store in Tokyo because of healthy boom.
So I cooked salad using quinoa with the vegetables in the fridge.
Onion, paprika, tomato and so on are being mixed in home made olive sesame dressing sauce. You can add a little soy sauce and salt as you like.
I like it very much!
I will try to use quinoa more often into my cook.

Harvest

A few days ago, a morning glory in my garden bloomed for the first time and it announced summer.
Today I can pick up the first harvest of petit tomatoes.
They are still small number, only four but it will increase day by day after tomorrow.
It's good season to harvest summer taste for a while.

Now on raising

I happened to see chicks of swallows in the nest when I went into the toilet in the park.
There were four faces in the small nest. They looked big enough to leave there soon.
When I was trying to take photos of them parents seemed very anxious seeing to me.
I said to them " Thank you for taking. Hope your children going to fly safely! "
They immediately rushed into the nest to see their kids.
I was very relieved and felt warm that they were being taken care of by the people working there because there were old papers to catch the droppings.
Some people hate and remove their nests because of the dirty droppings. It's very annoying...I agree if it were.
Anyway it would not be so bad if I were a owner of the inn for them during summer.

What's this?

I've got a round vegetable which was grown up in the field.
I had never seen it before and wanted to taste it, so I asked her to give it to me.
She is Maria on Monday.
I'd like to cook it.