When I was little, my mom used to buy lots of sardines, and we used to clean them by hand and made hamburgers with shiso leaves, and meatball soup. Everytime we cooked in big quantities, I got better at it. Now I'd rather skip that process, I found sardines already made into paste, and mixed egg, flouer, onion, and ginger, and made miso soup. I don't really see sardine these days at stores.
子供の頃、母親が安い鰯を沢山買ってきては、手で捌いてつみれにしてしその葉を載せて焼いたり、つみれ汁にしました。毎回大量の鰯を捌くので、だいぶ上手になりましたが、今はその手間が惜しいので、すでにすり身になっているものに卵、小麦粉、ネギと生姜を沢山混ぜてつみれ汁に。鰯自体もあまり見かけなくなってしまったような気がします。
Overheard a conversation between two senior ladies on the bus way back to home from work. One lady said she was worried about her daughter not getting married. "I was worried about her going out when she was young, and was careful not to let her go on date with some boys, but now I regret what I did. If she had more chances of meeting, she would've been married by now." The other lady was telling her that she was embarrassed by her daughter married to a man not from the good family. "Children of my brothers and cousins all married to the people from the good family. My daughter is the only one not married to such a good family. Even my husband's end relatives also married to decent family. I'm so embarrassed." The grass is greener on the other side of the fence. One is not happy about her daughter being single. One is not happy that her daughter doesn't belong to decent family that she can claim to her relatives. Probably both of them were trying to ...
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