Today's plan? Absolutely nothing! Ha ha ha. Just staying home and having a BBQ in the backyard!
Branden washed all the veggies for me in the sink and then I chopped the mushrooms and bell peppers in half and the pumpkin in slices.
Very lightly sprinkled everything, except the sweet potato with a tiny sprinkle of salt. See the salt on the potato in the pic? Makes the potato skins really crunchy and good! Ha ha ha. : )
Chopped up 1kg of all white skinless chicken breast meat and rinsed it and marinated it with this yakiniku sauce. It's sorta spicy but really good. We also had fatty yakiniku beef that Noboru likes. And lean beef, but thick steaks, that sorta looked like fillet mignon type beef.
Gotta add some fresh fruit on a lazy BBQ at home, type day too (kept it cool in the fridge while all the BBQ stuff cooked). But cheap, again I always buy the cheap fruit. Ha ha ha : )
When the potatoes got soft to the touch, is when we added the meat. The steaks went on last, but everything of course got a thorough cooking! : )
The boys played in the backyard while we cooked and sat and just basically hung out.
And we decided to eat inside today. It just depends, sometimes we eat on the terrace and sometimes we eat inside. Today we wanted to eat inside. Everyone was eating. The boys were drinking their ume juice. We love this drink at our house! Perfect for the warmer weather. Nice and tarty! Ha ha ha. We drank our sodas. And dinner was just really nice. And you can see by the sun coming through the windows, it was pretty early still. We actually sat down and ate by 4:00 pm. Very early dinner, I know, but we had made so much, that we nuked some again around 9:00 pm when we got a bit hungry as the night wore on. Ha ha ha. : )
Here's my meal, heaping amount perhaps. But, boy was it great! What have we got here? Well, one crunchy on the outside, but fluffy on the inside roasted potato with butter and salt and pepper. Delicious potatoes! Marinated and grilled chicken.Mushrooms, bell peppers and a tiny slice of pumpkin. And an even tinier slice of sweet potato. And a little rice. Nothing fried, just everything grilled. Well duh except the rice, ha ha ha. : )
Noah-chan drinking his ume juice in his sippy cup. And eating some veggies and chicken and yakiniku. Noboru was actually cutting some of the steak for Branden when I snapped this picture.
And extra yakiniku sauce for dunking and dipping our meats in. I hope my plate doesn't look like a great big ol' mess here! Ha ha ha! But gosh darn it, it was so good! Afterwards we munched about half of the fruit. And then we all took quick showers. Just had to get shampooed up and soaped up from top to bottom. Then we all put on a clean/fresh set of comfy house clothes/play clothes on. And my hair was actually still wet when we left to the video store, but it dried by the time I came home. Ha ha ha. We ran to the Tsutaya to rent us a new DVD rental. We rented the kids 2 UIltraman DVD's. And we rented ourselves the newest version of "the Texas Chainsaw Massacre." We didn't watch this when the boys were awake obviously. When we got back it was barely 6:00 pm. We watched some some stuff on Satellite. And then we watched American idol of course at 10:00 pm. Noah was long asleep by that time. Branden fell asleep around 10:30 pm. And when AI was over, at 11:00 pm. We went to the kitchen and popped some popcorn, grabbed a couple cokes with ice and headed to the couch and started the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Beginning." Oh my gosh! That was so freakin' scary! So gross! This was obviously Noboru's week/turn to pick the movie. Heck it was scary! Anyway, nothing spectacular to share really, but that was our Saturday in a nutshell! : )
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