After I had Dai-dai-kagura（大々神楽）performed at Geku（外宮） of Ise Grand Shrine（伊勢神宮）, I was presented with Shinsen（神饌）, dried kelp, dried cuttlefish, dried bonito shavings, dried abalone etc. , which are all made at the beach belonging to Ise Grand Shrine.
- kelp 昆布
- cuttlefish イカ
- bonito 鰹
- abalone アワビ
These days I’ve been looking forward to boiling dried Udon noodle and eating it with ready-made soup for lunch. And I use the Shinsen as its ingredients. Since Shinsen is vacuum-packed, it is delicious on its own. I put concentrated noodle soup into a large bowl, chop dried kelp, dried cuttlefish and dried abalone and put them in it. Then I pour boiling water there. When the Udon noodle is boiled, I put some more hot water and the Udon noodle in the bowl. By the time I eat it, the ingredients have become soft and their extracts have been blended into the soup.
- boil 茹でる
- ingredient 具材
- by the time S+V SがVする時までには
- extract エキス
- blend 溶け込ませる
Normally, ingredients are removed from the soup once they have been used as soup stock, but I eat them because I love their firmness and the delicious soup. I soon finished all the Shinsen I had been presented with at Ise Grand Shrine. Not forgetting the taste, I often buy dried bonito and dried cuttlefish at a supermarket, put them into soup with a lot of stocked dried kelp and eat them without dried abalone, of course.
- remove 取り除く
- once S+V 一旦SがVしたら
- soup stock 出汁
- firmness 歯ごたえ
My wife has been cooking white rice with thirty-percent refined brown rice or with the five main cereals recently. Thirty-percent refined brown rice seems as good for the action of my bowels as normal brown rice. As soon as I eat white rice even for a day, I get constipated. I haven’t felt a major change in my body since I began to eat brown rice, but I think my body has become a little bit slimmer. I’ve got an image of the ingredients of brown rice scratching extra fat on the wall of my blood vessels.
- refined 精製された
- bowel 腸
- constipated 便秘の
- extra 余分な
- fat 脂肪
It’s important that you take care of your health physically and mentally. On top of it, a new development in consciousness begins. As long as I live, I’ll do all I can physically and mentally, yes in everything I do.
- consciousness 意識
- as long as S+V SがVする限り
生かして頂いて ありがとう御座位ます
I Ka Shi Te I Ta Da I Te A Ri Ga To U Go Za I Ma Su
Thank you so much for keeping me/us alive.
