One thing I have learned the hard way is the blessing you have as a missionary concerning the things you eat. I remember leaving curry on the stove for a week or more (like many others) and then warming it up, throw in an egg or two and WHAM.... dinner! It was great. I won't even go into all the doughnuts we ate that came from the dumpsters of Mr. Doughnuts.......(save that for another time)
Well, shortly after being married I decided my dear wife needed to experience curry. So I made a big pot. Then we left it on the stove a few days. I heated it up to a good boil and had a plate full........ and have never been so sick in my whole life.
Looking back at the number of raw eggs I ate and used to dip things in, and the other misc. things that we ate raw, it is an amazing blessing that a missionary receives.
PS.... now the curry is promptly eaten to avoid any more painful memories. My favorite trick is to put some butter and milk in it.
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Here is the scoop onthe Tsuchidas--
They finished their mission in Hokkaido and then were going to finally retire (in Hawaii) when they were called as special assistants to the mission president in Sendai. They finished their work in Sendai and were then going to retire (in Hawaii) and he was called as president of the JMTC for three years. They finished their term and were about to retire (in Hawaii) when they were called as president and matron of the Fukuoka temple. When they call presidents of the smaller temples the term is undefined and so there he was for ... ever. He actually had a heart condition, surgery, and returned to the temple for another year or so when he was released late last year.
He now resides in Fukuoka with his eldest son and I talked to him a couple of months ago. I told him how proud I am of his sacrifices and how it must be nice to finally retire...
He quickly replied that he and the shimai were recently called on a couple mission and have yet to find out where they are going.
If this man is not translated, he will be first in line during the Second Coming...
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All,
I just spent Sunday with the Tsuchida's going to church together and all.
It was great! They really miss visiting with missionaries from the US. They are living and attending the Kita Kyushu Ward (Kokura exit from the shinkansen). They are living with their chonan, until they plan to serve a mission together sometime later this year.
If you haven't heard, since being the JMTC mission president, they served as the 1st Temple president for the Fukuoka temple.
Their phone number is 011-81-093-471-3385.
I am still in Japan on business and I can't seem to find their jusho right now but I'll send it soon.
Kay Choro
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In 1998 they were living in Nagoya. We went to their home ward a couple times. They were out of town, so I didn't get to see them. They may, however, still own a home in Nagoya.
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I heard they were temple pres. of the Fukuoka temple. Did I hear wrong?
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Hey I'm finally going back to Japan for a visit. Can't wait! Does anyone know where the Buch and the Shimai are? Does anyone keep in touch with Aisa (their daughter)? Would love to see them.
I'm also looking for Dee Peterson shimai. Any news on her?
Yoroshiku,
(Christensen) Shimai (now Mitchell)
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On my first morning in my first area, Kushiro, I was given the task of doing the dishes. (I got off easy compared with what *some* greenbeans had to do!) I dutifully cleaned out the big pot full of old, dried-out stew, cramming it down the drain as I did at home. I looked around for a minute, then went to ask my companion where the switch for the garbage disposal was. "What disposal?!?" he asked.... Uh-oh.....
Then one of the other missionaries came into the kitchen and yelled, "Where's my curry?!?".... Uh-oh again....
Needless to say, I learned both plumbing and curry-making that first day....
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Back in the Hoki jidai (83-85) we put Kyupi on our curry if it got too hot for anyone's taste. I love the stuff, and have eaten it regularly since coming home. It's one of my children's favorite meals nowadays.
My wife, in order to make it cooler for the children, puts about a half-cup of apple juice in it. This variation tastes a lot better than kyupi in my opinion. (Although it makes it about a -2 on the spicy scale...)
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Who put Curry in the frigde? We'd just leave it sitting on the stove, and warm it up when it was time to eat it. Yeah weird, shimai's did this. (My Nihonjin Dod did it). Yeah I was a nurse at the time, too. It's different over there though, I mean even the eggs don't need refridgerated at the store. The worst was when I was a green bean, and my body was not adjusted the the food yet, and I lost weeks worth of rice and such in the matter of minutes. After that though I could handle almost anything. Except an. NASTY!
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Dillon choro,
I don't know about honey - never tried it. But to this day, I can't enjoy curry without Kyupi (sp?) mayonaisse on it. I can't remember which one of my companions talked me into trying this, but it adds a "creamy?" taste to the curry. Heck, even my kids now like it that way and complain if we don't have any Kyupi in the house.
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The talk of bikes reminds of the time when I was in Otaru with Perry Choro and his expensive mountain bike that he had spent a lot of money to have shipped from the US was stolen. Fortunately, it was stolen from the bike shop, so the shop owner had to get him a new bike. Of course Perry couldn't be satisfied with any of the bikes in the shop, they were much too small. He had the shop owner custom order the tallest bike available.
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We had a brand-new plastic ladle that was blue - I say it WAS blue because the first time we used it was making a big pot of curry. Now the ladle is green. Kind of makes you wonder what your insides look like after 2 years of curry as a staple.
Even so, I still love a good curry dinner!
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I still don't see anything wrong with cooking a big pot of curry for the week! Unlike most foods, curry tastes better after it has sat for at least 24 hours. I'm getting hungry just thinking about it!
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I remember going to Mori's many times and one of his secrets was adding fruit to the curry. I remember watching him add kiwi fruit one time and apples lots of times. I do the same now! Delicious!
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Yes, I'm sure the majority will admit to having the big-old pot-o-curry in the frig for a few days and yes, curry is very good and is a senkyoushi food staple. BUT, I have to say that I learned the most valuable curry lesson in my 4th area, Hokudai (Shinkotoni), from the great Elias Akinaka choro (ZL) from Hawaii.
Now, I have to disclaim that this magic is not needed if/when you are eating curry at a place like "Mori's" in Shinkotoni (which I had a moment of silence for when I heard a few years ago that it was shut down)
Ok, so here's the trick - HONEY !. Yep, that's right. Regardless of the brand or karai-level, you just drizzle honey over the top of curry and WA-LA.
So if you thought curry was sooo gooood before, well, I guess that's your next challenge. Go try it this week. And when you're ready to get back on here with your feedback, please, don't thank me, but thank Mr Elias Akinaka. Thanks Akinaka choro, you've brought a many smiles to my face when I eat curry.
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I don't know when I have ever seen as many crows as I did in Hakodate. I remember huge flocks of them living on Hakodate Yama. In the morning they would swarm the city looking for garbage. One morning during companion study Hinton Choro and I caught about forty of them across the street attacking our neighbor's garbage. I remember seeing dozens of them at a time looking for a handout via the gomi bins when no one was around to stop them. At night as my companions and I headed for the mountain for lessons with investigators I would see them returning "en masse." I always worried about their flight patterns and whether I had remembered my umbrella.
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On the line of curry rice.... I remember the time when we had no rice. We used ramen. It was so good broken up into ramen crumbles (we hadn't cooked it) with the Curry on top. Missionary cuisine at its finest! The Hakodate Apato was great because each companionship was able to get a huge bag of rice each month from one of the shimais in the ward. I remember teaching her husband and thanking her for her generosity. Her husband seemed to like talking to the missionaries, but never baptized.
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Ahhh...the good old days...of course besides the ingredients listed you could also sweeten it up by adding momo and pineapple to the mix. My favorite had to be having a couple of over medium fried eggs under the curry mix...yummy. Does anyone remember having hawaiin haystacks...if I remember correctyly you had a bowl of rice, a slice of pineapple, stew topping, and then bugle corn chips on top. Those were the days.
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Speaking of Curry, it seemed to me that all the meals we cooked consisted of a small amount of meat, with potatoes, carrots, onions
and occasionaly pimans. The only thing that varied was the sauce they were in: curry, beef stew, white stew, spaghetti, etc. Of course, evrything but spaghetti was served over rice....
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I think the main staple food of elders had to be curry rice. It seemed to be the easiest, cheapest, most convenient thing to cook, especially for "greenbeans". This was back when the elders in an apartment would have to take turns cooking meals for the group. I remember in the last half of my mission there was one month where our group of 4 elders managed to end up having curry rice nearly EVERY SINGLE DAY! Ugh! After that I tried to avoid curry for the rest of my mission, and for a few years after I came home too!
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