33: Japanese beef and rice bowl (Page 60, Easy Japanese Cooking)

I ate this once at a Japanese fast food place and I I'm pretty sure I got food poisoning from it. So this doesn't really have a good memory attached to it. I can only hope that the same thing does not happen again. Although the beef in this recipe was also quite sweet I did not mind it as much as the sweet egg. It may have been because I also had the salt from the miso soup and yakitori to counterbalance the sweetness.

I can't believe that it's September already. I have been in Brisbane for almost 8 months now. It's been 9 months since I was in Japan. I often miss Japan. I can't pinpoint exactly why. It was exciting and everything seemed more vivid. The crispness of the air in winter, the colour of the leaves, the sounds of bicycle bells and giggling school girls. I miss early morning trips to buy bento boxes, late night karaoke sessions and everything in between.

I did warn everyone that with the start of September would mean less recipes. Not only have some of my favourite shows started (Gossip Girl, Bones and Terminator), but I've even picked up a few other shows I will be watching too like 90210 (I know! It's sad to admit but I actually like it more than the original), Privileged (a comedy about a graduate who decides to tutor these rich socialites to pay off her student loans) and I've just finished watching Samurai girl. I am also waiting for The Fringe and Heroes and so many others. And while I'm waiting for my shows to download themself I have been reading the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer. It's about to be made into a movie so I just had to read it. The character is a bit crazy though. She falls in love at first sight with a vampire and she becomes obsessed with becoming a vampire. That's crazy! No one is that stupid. But I have managed to read all 4 books in a week, so if the books are crazy what does that say about me?

Currently listening to "I'm yours" by Jason Mraz.