
Last week was citrus, so this week it’s balsamic.
Red eggplant hooray! With cheese.
Since I have a health checkup tomorrow, I’ll go with the standard settings.
Conger eel frit and Kaga long cucumber pickle
The Kaga long cucumber pickle has a really refreshing quality to it—perfect!

I ended up ordering Gorgonzola again this week…
I’m in trouble! It’s become a habit.
Regina and zucchini
Cassata to finish
There was some dirty trash lying on the path next to the shrine…
Looking closer, it was a filthy bird…
I thought, “Oh, a sick bird…”
“Can’t fly & can’t walk”—it was squawking…
Looking more carefully…
It was a baby crow that had fallen from its nest.
The parent crow was shrieking and threatening from above, so I beat a hasty retreat—too dangerous to photograph!
Thank you for the meal today as well.