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Correspondence has arrived!

I'm coming!

Good Morning.

- It's getting very cold. - Yes, a lot.

I heard that at some point this afternoon it will snow.

"Only accounts again?" There's a letter too.

Oh.

See you soon.

Autumn brought a letter from my mother.

Komori (Small forest) a small a village located in the Tohoku region.

There are no stores here,

but if you need to do small purchases, there is a

market of a cooperative of small farmers.

And some other stores in the center of the village.

Most of the way up.

And it takes about 30 minutes by bike. / i>

But I'm not sure of the lap time.

During the winter, you have to go to p because of the snow.

Something that takes around of an hour and a half.

It seems that the most people

does your shopping in places like supermarket in the nearby town.

When I decide to go there, it ends taking a whole day.

Today is Christmas.

Speaking of Christmas, because my mother always makes a lot of fun about the details,

We never celebrate.

M: Let's celebrate Christmas!

We are not Christians, so why

How much selfishness.

Ego sta! Ego sta! Ego sta!

However, when I was small

we had always been invited at this time of year.

And she was making a cake.

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I'll go!

- Hi. - Hello.

In between.

Ol !

Where are your manners?

He used to take care of I've been doing this for a long time.

Hi.

He was a foreigner.

Now that I think about it, it should be an old love of my mother.

Although I can not confirm.

You're very good at drawing.

What would that be?

Peas!

Here's the cake!

The Christmas cake of my m e was rectangular

white and cream fresh from the outside.

Once she cut with the knife

the slice revealed a brilliant tone of green and red, the colors of Christmas.

It's very beautiful. How did you do it?

How did you do it? It's wonderful!

Do you really want to know?

The red amazake, made of red rice.

The green spinach.

I put both types of mass in a mold and bake them.

But I do not understand how he stays with two colors in parallel.

If you put them in the mass, it is impossible.

You'll have to find out. this by itself.

Are you okay?

A piece remained.

That man came to ours home three times

and that was all.

I understand.

And this also end of the christmas cake.

- I already had something like that .. - What?

- In elementary school. - I can not remember.

I think it was for a years before Mme. Fukuko from.

She made me taste the taste.

I did not know that.

I used to buy books for her. all the time. You had a lot, remember?

Complete collections and series of encyclopedias.

Oh, yes, you always showed up.

She liked you very much.

Even though I'm not that fond of books

I tried to read some.

That's when she, of suddenly said to me:

"Go and find your own book for read, if you intend to read for yourself. "

What?

Or something, so she sold them to a used book store.

We probably did not have enough money.

I helped her carry the books, so she gave me some of them.

I understand. The fact that she had made cake can mean

that she also had Someone around ..

So, what's with the cake?

Oh, we do not grow rice. Red for a good time, right?

Although its leaves be red

and make the field more beautiful,

the seeds spill easily and suffering for the harvest.

That's when I thought I could use only black rice ..

We grow rice black every year.

So I did amazake with black rice.

I used less water and it turned out pretty strong.

Black rice well glutinous, so it gets very sweet.

The amazake is completely black,

but when mixed with sugar, baking soda, wheat flour,

and oil, creates a color Perfect pustle.

Yellow looks good with purple,

so i did in color yellow, and also doubles.

I filled the mold up to half with the mass of black rice.

On top, I put the dab of squash up to 3/4 of the height of the mold.

Then I cleaned it.

Then I turned quickly and let it cool.

Do this level the sides.

And doing this, it leaves the colors of the longitudinal mass.

Then I decorate with fresh cream.

Merry Christmas!

I understand.

- Sorry for the delay! - Hello!

Let's start with the Christmas meal!

- No. An end-of-year meal. - Huh?

This is a cake of three colors, white, purple and yellow. It's not Christmas colors.

In addition, you do not they are Christians, no?

Why are you? How detailed?

Let's eat.

Very well. By year which is approaching ...

Let's hope for the best.

- Let's eat! - Let's eat!

Oh! It's delicious.

- Very good! - Delicious.

- Abbbora? - Uhm.

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Hi!

I come for the news of the neighborhood.

Ah! Ichiko! Thanks for coming.

What are you drawing?

Mushrooms.

I made some manjuu. Here.

Thanks.

What's your food? favorite, Ichiko?

When they asked me this ...

the first thing that my head came

natto mochi made with mochi recmm-kneaded.

Mixing natto with sugar,

get some spicy mochi and moa to become natto.

We had a day of "making mochi "in my school.

J is 16 years old.

The women ran all over the place.

We unearthed natto.

We were buried under the snow.

Wow! Clever!

It takes 3 days to natto.

Involves soybeans that were boiled in "warazuto"

(cylindrical vessel made of straw).

If you put a piece of straw within this point,

will have many strings.

If you get involved in a straw blanket,

A hole is created in the snow.

Then, in the from the top of the blanket,

A layer of snow comes.

There are a lot of things buried in the snow.

Cabbage. Green onion. Spinach

Radishes and carrots are buried in the ground.

They are wrapped in sheets of cedar to ward off rats.

When faced with low temperatures, get hurt and gain their appearance.

Once preserved best in snow blankets.

The temperature is stabilizes if buried.

Also uses them when You become natto.

We pray for it to be tasty.

We pray for it to be tasty.

You have to wrap it up correctly,

or you will not have a good taste of mochi.

It's heavy. No Can you raise?

Look and get up!

Go Go go.

On here!

Okay, I'll remove.

Make sure of get the mochi.

Okay, put it as you know.

Serious?

It's good when it's soft and warm.

On here. Forward.

Rec'm-made, still warm,

and a very smooth mochi.

Natto full of sugar and soy sauce.

As one after the other.

I want to continue eating them forever.

It was the first natto mochi with sugar and soy sauce I ate.

It's important to knead it. before knocking.

Before my mother lives in Komori, I had never eaten natto mochi.

There was no particular flavor that could call our "family recipe."

"I want to do it myself." - Assurance?

Since then ...

Do not hit me.

Natto mochi rec m-hecho with much love and

soy sauce has transformed in our family recipe.

The bacteria that make natto it's in the rice straw.

Thus, the cultivation of rice the cultivation of "natto mochi".

It takes ten minutes by bike to reach the rice field we rent.

This year we had rain and low temperatures.

It made me uneasy. I was going to see the plants every day.

Rice plants grow with the sound of people's footsteps.

All the people were frantic during the harvest,

working among the cold rain breaks.

This year, the product of rice cultivation mochi ...

This one...

This one...

this!

Thanks.

The local school is closed.

Sometimes, used by people of the people.

Keep snowing in Komori.

I must keep the paths clear.

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Correspondence!

I'll go!

- Good Morning. - Here it is.

You made daikon frozen.

"Yes." As he had said. - I understand.

I cut them in half.

Retreat the skin.

Short vertically.

Make holes,

I step on a rope.

While they are raw, I leave that freeze on the outside.

When you let them dry, get daikon frozen food that will last year-round.

It's okay to just leave them alone. hanging still raw, no?

Some freeze them after boiling.

My wife makes them like you.

Quite tasty and worth it When you do not have much time.

- So I'm coming. - It's all right.

At !

Frozen Daikon indispensable for Nishime.

When you cook along with herring

which were rehydrated with water used to wash rice,

gets soaked with flavor and really delicious.

Adding Cookies any vegetable.

But they look better with ginseng and negamari bamboo.

While daikon prepares to freeze,

We look forward to arrival of spring

Let's eat.

During the fall, while the persimmons are hard,

are collected, sorted to make dry persimmons.

There!

This is difficult.

There has been a good harvest this year.

Yes, we'll have a lot.

We collect a lot.

Assurance.

There.

One two!

- Did you hang them? - I'm going to let go.

Oh. They have a very beautiful color.

The skin on the stalk is pulled.

The branches that form of T stand

on the rope and are hung underneath of the roofs eaves.

If you press them with hands every now and then,

will end up being soft dry persimmons.

We can enjoy them with ch , just as they are,

or cut them into slices and put them in daikon namasu.

They have a beautiful color, the sweetness of vinegar

and dried persimmons complement and are delicious.

- Here, try a little. - Oh!

- Do not worry, I'll prove it. - Come on, eat.

- Oh. It's delicious. - Good.

It's hard if it's cold, but there are things that you can not do even with another climate.

Yes.

"The cold" is also one is important.

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You do not have to clean the chimneys of your house?

- We got some heat. - How nice.

Why do not you also replaces?

Hum ... But the kerosene It's absurdly expensive.

It's true.

"Remember when I left?" - Yes?

I took rice and miso. But I had who buy vegetables, right?

The air in here is much better. Well, sweet potatoes, please.

Understood.

There were taxes on water and for evictions as well.

We do not have this in Komori, right? Each organizes in its own way.

When the invoices arrived, I got in. in panic. I had not calculated them.

He had to get money.

Initially, I had to eat macaroni dry and rice every day.

I thought I was fine because they had extract of meat and vegetables.

That's horrible!

I wondered if I could cultivate some vegetables or something.

I filled the bowls, of dry pasta, with earth.

I planted radish seeds. Because they grow in just a month.

Welcome!

There was one person with whom I was given

very well during the part-time work.

What are you looking for?

Someone asked me where the tomatoes were canned.

They're close to the noodles. There.

On here.

You really know where are the things

- Thank you for before. - It was nothing.

- I'll follow. - At!

really weak.

- On here. - OK.

It's a little heavy.

It's not heavy.

- Because you're too strong. - Yes.

- On here. - Yes.

Is that what you always eat? A sweet cake?

I make sure I take vitamins.

But I do not think this be enough ...

Why, I'm not much different.

This is rice at home.

I did a bit of onigiri on the board with miso.

Mixing with some radishes and improvised pickles.

And the luxurious omelet of my mother.

This omelet is great!

The secret is honey.

Did you do this with things that you cultivated? You know a lot.

Not so. No I made the eggs grow.

This I had already imagined ...

Why did it take so long?

The other day, I received a made-to-measure handkerchief.

You know what that means. If You deceive her, she'll kill you!

How ugly! Would not be better throw it off?

I said that you can always buy something for somebody.

If you have time to do Um, get yourself a job!

You can say it again.

And then? I did not give him lunch What did you do in appreciation?

No.

Of course, there are people like that. But the food It has nothing to do with it.

I know but...

Remember when I entered high school? The older kids bothered me.

They said I was a monkey. of boarding school.

They said I was another idiot of the village.

I feel like at that time.

In the end, I do not could do nothing.

Smells good?

They probably put sweets and essences.

- There! - You wanna wear a glove?

Place refractory tiles above the greenhouse.

The heat radiating gradually warms you.

If you put a bowl on top,

You can heat butter with curry, and no unless you leave him alone.

It's very useful.

And that goes with the sweet potatoes.

This year's satsumaimo kept very well.

Well, it was not that cold.

Hmm.

Hot, hot, hot.

This year I will build a firewood depot.

Cut wood frozen difficult.

I eat sweet for relieve tension.

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That's why the red peas are indispensable in this season.

Go very well with mochi and pepper.

Amasso flour, salt and baking powder with water.

I let ferment for an hour.

Then I pack the red peas.

Fried as oyaki.

If I vaporize, I get manuju.

With our soil, it is not necessary fertilize for the peas.

If I fertilize, the leaves will grow spoiled and there will be no peas.

At the beginning of the summer, the I plant directly on the earth.

I quit completely and rain does its part.

Ver o.

The flowers bloom underneath. They fall.

When it's autumn, do not I can contain myself

and I'll end up eating the peas still unripe.

When I open the bases are still green,

I do not know the girls red peas.

Not yet hardened. I am happy to be able

boil them quickly and eat them when I want.

But you have this fragrance of red peas.

Can be used as ingredients for soups.

Boil the peas gently and blend with muffin dough and cook.

They are soft and aromatic.

As cool as they are beautiful and fresh.

Then as before are fully mature.

A little sense of guilt is part of the taste.

I keep them for you at the end of the year.

Filling red peas in order, beginning with the stalks,

who are those who first they change color.

If I leave them in the field for long long, the stalks will open.

With the rainy seasons, there are some which end up sprouting still on the stalk.

When this line of green color disappears, when I harvest them.

There are some who harvest the peas before, claiming that the doves will eat them.

But my fields never were victims of the doves.

Perhaps, because I am diligent, so they get distracted by the herbs

and are unable to locate the peas.

When I harvest them, I first leave the open air until completely dry.

I hit a piece of wood and I separate the bases from the peas.

Then dry the peas in the sun a little more.

near high season autumn, so I leave them

dry for a few more finally stabilize.

So, because I can not handle it. not even a minute.

Once dried, they remain, including, more fragrant

and will not get infested with bugs during storage.

Winter begins.

Sieve and separate the peas bad and other impurities,

and put them in jars.

This is very meticulous. I made many.

This time, I separate the ones that are good and put them somewhere else.

I will use them to prepare fields when arrive the end of summer again.

In Komori, there is a day in the planned year for the red peas.

It will not be good to get ahead or delay the process.

It will be very cold during the sowing, or there will be broad

periods of rain when needs a dry climate.

I can not handle the temperature well while growing.

You will be sick or bugs easily.

Other crops have their days of planting.

They were planted considering the situation of the flowers

of mountain and passes during the season.

the result of much experience over time.

So . House thing has its time to be made.

I suppose.

So . Probably,

sa earlier than it should.

I'm sure of that.

You should not be impatient.

How much is making pea paste red and mix the sugar very early,

No matter how much you cook, the peas will never soften.

Put the carton afterwards to be able to slip it easily between your fingers.

I feel like eating "hatto" on snowy days.

To make hatto, I mix flour with water,

until it is solid as a lulo and the I let it rest, more or less, two hours.

If you do not get enough rest, hatto will not be crunchy.

Therefore, I prepare before to remove the snow.

After fermenting it, the childbirth in pieces.

So, I refine and boil in the soup.

Thanks.

It is especially tasty when I get hungry after removing the snow.

Today, I suddenly decided mix it with sand.

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Usually, the has parts of bran

which are removed on manufacturing process.

It seems so healthy,

One minute, this is not ...?

Let me see ... What's your name?

Some sardines gutted and dried.

Dried Shiitakes.

Carrots.

Daikon.

Burdock.

Taro.

Firm and dry tofu.

Water, sake, mirin and the together in a bowl.

You can season them with soy and ginger when turning.

Put in the greenhouse with red embers.

So cute.

I think I'll walk.

Yesterday, I discussed with Kikko.

We were talking about a friend with whom she works.

Why not? She was asking for help.

Just because she asked you for help,

does not mean that you're doing something Well, if it causes you regret later.

I do not think you think not the best for her.

Ichiko ...

Who do you think it is?

What?

Do you really know what? should I do for her?

Do you really know which ones? the best interests?

There's really so much experience with these things?

Although I did not know How well do these people?

Always talk like if he knew everything.

That's just falsehood.

Have you ever faced a person and said something like that directly?

A rabbit...

When the clouds are out,

and the sun began to fall,

snow falls from the branches.

But stop while There is a shadow.

The light falls.

I do not think I can face the people because I came back to Komori.

I'm so stupid.

Okay, time to sweep.

Welcome.

I curry. Let's eat together.

Yes.

I said a lot yesterday, I'm sorry.

It's all right.

"I'll bring the rice, wait a minute. - I'll heat the curry.

- Why? Hatto? - Yes.

- But you'll see, that ... - Yes?

Oh, I know!

Put p on the board.

Put it in its place.

Are three?

Cut in three.

Then flat on a roll.

Fry both sides with heat and pre-heated plate.

- I'll stretch it out. - It's all right.

- Kikko. Look. - Hmm?

- Oh! Inflou! - I know.

It's stirring!

Yes, it moves.

"Oh, it's swelling. - Grow up!

- It's inflated! - Impressive!

"Are you sure it's all right?" - Yeah, that's good.

Now let's get him.

Oh! It's delicious.

- What's your name? - Chapati.

Chapati?

So, you should let him rest. At night, before you do it.

- Oh, like the hatto. - Yes that's right.

Have tricks to do good food universal.

- Here it is. - All right! It smells good too!

an authentic Indian style curry loaded with spices!

OK.

Let's eat!

- Are you okay? - Yes!

- How are you? - Delicious.

Chapati's good too.

Tomorrow will be hatto again, but this time with soup.

Here it is! - Let's go!

That was awesome!

- I'm warming up. - Oh.

Tomorrow is another day. of sweeping snow.

I feel good!

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Stored vegetables is almost over.

I took the pickles I could not open before for fear of wasting them.

Ferns that I have harvested in the spring.

After sowing the field, the ancients of Komori enter the mountain.

- Hello. - Hello.

See how many ferns I have harvested.

And they only reap what they can upload.

Take them out of their roots and they place where they easily grasp.

They're better before they sprout.

What do you eat next? covered with vegetable ash.

Logo targeted and left in water during the night.

It will fade away the astringent taste.

The savory pickles, are left raw.

The salt can be placed when they are like this.

If you are not completely submerged in salt ...

for some reason, they melt.

When you use them, you have to leave them in the water all night.

Once the salt is removed, quickly boil and can be eaten.

Thanks.

They are tasty and refreshing with soy sauce with ginger.

They can be cooked or as ingredient for miso soup.

Everybody eats during the year,

but I'm really "kabaneyami" as soon as It seems like I never have enough.

"Kabaneyami" means lazy.

Not only with the ferns. I often ruin the harvest.

it took a long time because I did not dedicate myself so much.

In contrast, Komori people are all diligent and hard working.

We meet here today to discuss the stratified soil on this side of the village.

It is not being cared for.

We have information that there is insects on the perimeter of the field.

And the farmer cooperative can not take care of it.

We have gathered information referring to this.

Please, return to page three the pamphlet that is with you.

It will be difficult to see the data because they are small,

but it's written like what effective will be the use of the field.

It is also written salary you will receive.

There are also plans concerning landscaping and the Komori fields.

We want to give you an idea of what we've been thinking.

Here it is.

Thank you.

Hey, Ichiko. Come and sit down.

No, it's fine.

This whole place used to be a forest.

We take out the trees one by one.

We did not have machines for that.

It was all done. We start every tree.

And so how do we convert this place in the fields that we see now.

Komori is an area of Rocky Mountains.

Once, we found a big rock played by l .

At that time, we used trunks and excavated.

Then we moved them and we took them.

It's been a long time, I was busy cows and sheep.

Eventually they returned the ground conductors.

They did the same thing as tractors.

They did many things.

My father used to be very good with it,

even though it has not meant much when they came with the motorbike.

They cut the tree without to care about nothing.

Here's a slope, do not you think?

So that the plow spinning and spinning.

They were really heavy.

They rattled the fingers of my feet.

But they did not do it the whole day.

Growing up types of vegetables.

H gr os also.

They are processed so that can be eaten.

Take care of the home tasks.

And they also raise children.

They continue to work on the mountain and in the streets.

They keep provisions for the winter.

Every day.

Day after day

Day after day

In that period Yuuta came to tell me about what he would do in Komori.

We have to do something with the fields. They're all old, after all.

Yes.

Listening.

I think it's very impressive. that you do everything for yourself.

But it gives me the impression that avoiding something very important.

And to hide this, and to deceive himself,

I realize that you are trying to things to make up somehow.

In reality, way to escape, no?

I was completely speechless.

Why are you trying to live a life appropriate in Komori, after all.

Accepting and processing these things.

why the elderly of Komori

enjoying your life from the bottom of their hearts.

But for me ...

A storm always comes at the end of winter.

My mother's letter has words like "going" and "coming".

But it does not say exactly what it is doing, where or with whom you are living.

On this day, there are storms, snowstorms and light

of spring rush, changing places.

It's clearing again.

I saw the bridge split in two between pale light and dark clouds.

How I ...

Komori (Small forest) a small a village located in the Tohoku region.

There are no stores here,

but if you need to do small purchases, there is a

market of a cooperative of small farmers.

And some other stores in the center of the village.

Most of the way down. And it takes about 30 minutes by bike.

But I'm not sure of the lap time.

During the winter, you have to go to p because of the snow.

Something that takes around of an hour and a half.

It seems that the most people

does your shopping in places like supermarket in the nearby town.

When I decide to go there, it ends taking a whole day.

Komori changed suddenly when the apricots,

plums, cherries and other Edible plants sprouted.

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When will I go? mountain, meeting ...

Shidoke, here it is.

Used in ohitashi or tempura, really enhances the taste.

I should save it for now.

Enreisou.

Katakuri Flowers

Nirinsou.

Shiraneaoi.

Taranbo. I have!

I wonder how is koshiabura.

And the kogomi.

I got everyone?

Thank you!

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Once in Komori, a heavy snowfall fell.

Snow?

You should wake up early. Help to sweep the snow a little.

I will lose the bus as soon as I leave.

I told Kikko I would do miso bakke for her.

Since you did not go to the mountain because of the Snow, could you get some bakke?

Just search. Went!

I have to take it all the snow of the road.

Ah.

Bakke may be hidden by the snow.

Does she know how long I'll take?

Good.

Kikko!

- Good Morning! - Good Morning.

The snow is crazy.

It has snowed all night.

By spring Will be the last It snows for a while.

I do not think it ever snowed in May before.

What? Yes!

Some time passed.

I arrived!

Mo?

Ah.

Miso bakke is ready.

But you need more pain.

Maybe I went to the meeting ...

So, my mother has disappeared.

Hey! Ichiko!

Stop loitering and move!

I bet you left all the tasks domestic for your wife, no?

When you get home, everything will probably be ready.

Everything you do speaks How was your day at work?

If the laundry is aculuma, very likely to complain.

But you know, I have to everything alone, no matter what.

I have to make money, but no no one wants to share the expenses.

If I work here, no. I can do anything else.

I have to take care of every thing.

If I'm sweeping the snow, no I can finish chopping the wood.

Do not act so full of self, saying people who work harder,

When you force your family to do what you do not want to do.

I have to do everything alone here.

There is no way for them to understand how much effort requires being in this family.

You have no idea how difficult it is No family ...

M ...

I really Did you consider family?

Ichiko?

Ichiko!

Other.

How many bowls did you eat?

This is the third.

Miso bakke is very good.

Absolutely good.

I have heard that miso bakke is keep for a year in the refrigerator.

By no means will I eat it all.

You know, when my mother did not have time, I put miso bakke in a bowl of soup.

Put some warm water and called it "miso soup."

Thanks. It looks very good.

Yes, it's very good.

Is it hot water?

It's not bad.

I talked.

It works!

- Yes, it's very good. - Yes.

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This is the way of a ponytail.

If I leave something like this since I was little, a whole huge field grows.

Cultivate the soil, remove the roots.

Cultivate the soil, remove the roots.

Artem sia roots. Fern roots. Horsetail roots.

I started many last year.

Grow the soil.

Take out the roots.

There were so many in the fields that I thought a waste not to eat a little.

But when there is a huge pile, take out one by one a tremendous work.

It takes a lot of time, and the shoulders begin to hurt.

But if you do not start them, you'll end up in your mouth when you eat them.

And worse, your fingers they will end up black.

Soon the boil.

Soy, mirin, vinegar rice, corn vinegar.

Soon they shrink and you end this little that came out of that pile.

It takes a lot of time and work and it ends only with this.

In fact, even if you have worked hard,

no, really satisfactory or something.

As it is, it is already very busy and spend a lot of time

and effort and this is what he receives.

Well, I think it's one Extravagant dish.

- Well, let's eat. - OK.

A .

The ponytails are herbs in the end.

When they grow in excess, they do not matter how much they start,

there is no way to discard them.

The roots are so small that I can not get them.

Well, you can say that, but ...

We humans create the environment where grow these ponytails.

We made this forest. And in the past, as in 1400 a.c. or 300 a.c.,

there were few places where ponytail could grow.

Instead of being a weed, it could have been a precious source of food.

They could be blessings from the mountains. that marked the beginning of spring.

Perhaps people from before considered ponytail as something very important.

How can I say...

They could have been the little spirits

of the green planet, elegantly pointing to the c u.

Besides that very precious.

D to feel the flavor easily. You cook very well, Ichiko.

OK!

- It worked? - Yes.

- OK! - Thank you.

He two years younger than me and we study together fundamentally.

I suppose I have a fall for tall men

that seem to be romantic.

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Oh. Ol .

Ol .

I came to help with the firewood.

Mr. Minoo is leaving. to work on the mountain?

Yes.

- I was going to do this later. - You're lucky!

Ah. I'll get some nobiru. Help me and bring the sieve.

OK.

- It is? - Yes.

Nobiru grows around the house.

There is plenty.

Chinese cabbage also planted at the end of last year.

Leave them in the field and follow growing under the snow.

But in the spring, they extend their stem and form buds.

You know,

I use these young leaves as a soup ingredient.

Convert buttons to ohitashi quite tasty too.

Serious? People say that no. They're good after they bloom.

Well, that's because there are flowers, means that the roots

I will grow no more. So the soft parts become hard.

But, we do this to reap the stalks, anyway.

The stalks that appear can be eaten earlier than other compatible plants.

Washing the nobiru is very tedious.

We have a little too much.

I took what's left of salty sea trout.

Soon I cook the pasta.

Quickly season the parts green and white with olive oil,

and add water from the pasta and make a sauce.

I add the stalks to the macaroni who finished cooking,

I then mixed with the sauce.

So.

"Macaroni with salty sea trout, nobiru and Chinese cabbage stalk. "

I just joined what I left. How are you?

The salt of the nobiru gives it a beautiful touch. Instead of using macaroni,

maybe it's better make french fries

The potatoes have a lot of bud.

I've been cleaning them, but maybe It's time to stop.

Potato stalks are not they poisonous?

I believe.

Maybe I should put a Little in my boss's glass.

Why?

You're welcome.

She seems furious, Kikko.

You know, I'm very tired of my boss.

He only cares about you. even and do not think about others.

At work he reprimands the president.

Acts as if it were from another company!

As if capable and very positive.

But you're going through the and never ends anything.

It makes us all pay for the his mistakes. Drive me crazy

If something goes wrong, blame it on others. If it works, thanks to him.

So try to relieve the Tension chopping wood, no?

This bastard does not make sense. of responsability!

A complete ego!

And beyond! And beyond.

Who do you think ! How dare

to speak ill of Someone behind the back?

It is said that others are selfish, so this means

that you also have a selfish part!

The only grown thing you have the body. What a waste!

It's been a while since my Grandmothers do not visit me.

Yes.

But I feel relieved for now!

I believe that you also little emotional in the spring.

I suppose.

It's all cut.

Done!

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The cabbage moth a harmful insect.

"Moth of the cabbage. transformed into an act of defense.

It's been a while, when my Maria and I were in the city ...

I can not forget the expression on the face of people

that went in the same Bus that people.

They start appearing when you starts planting the seed.

Every day, check both sides of the leaves.

Throw away the remaining eggs hidden somewhere.

Por m ...

These pests are eating there!

There are many!

They're so big!

I am quite tolerant of the cabbage moths.

whereas happened on the bus.

But I'm not pious with the worms.

The cabbage different of Chinese cabbage.

Your whole body is rolled up to create a ball for you. They are beautiful.

Spring cabbage r cem-harvested

can be eaten raw with nothing which remains delicious.

Also, when a little knob

or olive oil and the savor with a little salt.

It really stresses the gentleness and There is no way to stop eating it.

As the outer leaves are more hard, even though the herbs skip it,

cut them and you can use them to make tempura mix.

sweet and has a beautiful texture.

The weakness of the cabbage is the rain.

When the rain picks up the cabbage is twisted and shrunk ...

it breaks.

Generally, at this time, the people of Komori

inspect fields of others.

How are things?

Good.

It seems so.

Ichiko! Ol !

Ol .

What did you plant?

- I! - Hello!

Do you have cabbage? They asked me to see them.

One after another, the cabbage shared with everyone.

Every year, I plant many and I do not eat them.

always like this, but I have so afraid of a bad time,

I end up planting too much.

I wonder if there are manners new things to eat.

I must put my hands on this Hidden Jia ...

The cabbage ...

Sweet ...

Make ...

Pastel ...

How to Make Pasties carrot, then it should be possible.

Well, I can not grate, so I'll have than using a processor.

Flour, sugar and eggs.

Let's go in simple mode and let the raisins go.

If you do this, instead of butter, Maybe I should use olive oil for salad.

And for the main flavor, it should use some kind of condiment ...

Cabbage. Maybe ginger can fall well.

It will definitely work.

I wonder why nobody I had thought of this before.

I think I could become a Cake is as good as carrots.

He could be a genius!

Hmm? OK.

This smell of cooking ...

new.

Just a moment.

family.

If you are the first world, then why?

But definitely I've felt it before.

Cabbage...

Flour...

Eggs...

Ginger...

Hmm...

What will it be?

Hmm.

okonomiyaki (fried pancake).

Do you have gravy?

Among the first things I plan in the spring, there are the potatoes.

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I like to plan on them before possible.

Although the snow is beginning to melt,

due to the thaw, the fields are soggy.

I will have to wait until let the soil just dry.

Therefore, hoop the field before the snow falls.

I have all the necessities so you can plant, soon

I cover it with vinyl for agriculture.

The snow falls.

The snow melts.

Make holes in the slides, right afterwards the potato seeds in the intervals.

I cover with earth.

There will probably be cold, but when doing this, when

the root of potato begins to grow and join the soil,

I make sure it's enough warm to the ice does not affect.

For the stems that come together,

I can pry them to be three or four on each plant.

If I do not do this, I will stay corner with minibatatas

That's a lot of work to peel.

But in the end, the only thing that I can make them leave you alone.

Your beautiful flowers will appear.

When stalks and the leaves begin

to fall, then when I should collect them.

Boil the potatoes quickly.

I put some salt and as well as still warm.

They are warm, soft and sweet.

There are some

I am looking for among the grew up around the bed.

I put salt, pepper, onion mixed with olive oil,

along with the boiled potatoes that cut into pieces and make salad.

one of the dishes of the cardinal for breakfast.

Thanks.

Then there's a "pain a la pomme" of terre, "the potato fry.

The dough contains pur of potatoes.

fast, spongy and slightly soft. It was one of the dishes

which my mother was proud of.

There's a secret. Why do not you try? I assure you, it will not be this way.

He was right. It does not matter how much I try, I can not make it spongy.

You still need something, but it's good as it is.

The ingredients and the they are completely secret.

Okay. I'll give you all the details. When you turn twenty.

Not fair!

In the fall, a letter from my mother.

It was quite large and he had many excuses.

He said he was thinking to start a garden and such.

I had many things written.

But it does not include "pain a la pomme de terre".

So I do not know yet as my mother did,

Before discovering, I made mine own recipe for potato bread

that was different of my mother.

After harvesting the potatoes, I assure you that does not enter any sunlight.

I isolate them.

Then I put them in a paper box.

And in the end, they stay well.

They are a good source of food in the winter.

I open a box and I see stalks growing,

and I shoot them quickly, I can eat them until spring.

In other words,

the first thing to do When winter is over

prepare food to the following.

Living in Komori a cycle of it.

This was my mother's letter.

"I'm always stuck on something,"

I look back and see as I finished here, "

"I believe for myself that I always stumbled on it. "

"I thought I was safe where I stepped, I felt

I'm still in circles and I return to the same point. "

"And when I return to the place where I started, I feel depressed. "

"But I gained experience of this. that if failure succeeds, "

"there is no way to continue in the same place, no? "

"Therefore I thought, there is no circle, but a spiral. "

"Even though it seemed that turns in the same place, "

I should definitely be moving me up or down. "

"I believe I will be better than before. "

"No. Maybe humans are spirals in themselves. "

"You walk around in the same place."

"But when something happens, stretch further up

or more even low, maybe for both sides. "

"The circle that I drew widens and expands. "

"In doing so, the spiral must become gradually greater. "

"And if I think this way, I feel which I can follow a little more. "

The first time I read it, I did not understand of what he was talking about. But now ...

As much as you have done all the preparations for the camps,

I decided not to plant potatoes this year.

Because I've decided ...

I will not be here next winter.

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Ol .

Oh, if not Yuuta.

Kikko is?

He went to Ichiko's camp.

- I'll get you there. - OK.

Ichiko asked me if I could take care of onions

for he had sown them.

It's not too much for only one person?

I love using many onions different ways.

Cut in half, sautéed in oil, baked in the oven

and seasoned with olive oil and salt.

Whole onions in soup.

Once she made up her mind, was quickly gone.

But to be honest, I'm reconsidering the favor.

See, Ichiko has this side where it puts a foot and sinks.

I suppose.

She tell you something?

Said he did not feel well.

to continue in Komori in this way.

Remember,

Ichiko had no place to go and s came back because he had no other choice.

He said that was not the case and that wanted to choose appropriately

a place to live with the feeling that he was facing things.

If you are not able to establish themselves in a place where

Feel good even that is in the city,

and keep running away, feel that disrespectful to Komori.

I understand...

Well, he told me something similar.

But it matters a lot to you. appearances and hates to lose.

She really thinks a lot and this It's not very flexible, is it?

I mean, if she likes to live Here, then you can live here.

I think it's okay if She wants to take a detour ...

No, this behaves like a capricious princess.

That's hard.

Growing onions begins with growing the seeds.

At the beginning of autumn, the soil must be well compacted for them to grow.

Cover yourself with a blanket for five days.

When they began to sprout, take off the blanket.

Let them grow until they have seven or eight mm thick.

Then plant them permanently in the soil that was fertilized.

And let the winter go by.

Once the snow is gone and the heat, the seeds that sprouted sa r o.

And remove them as soon as possible.

The plants that will bloom end up being hard onions and does not taste good.

Serious?

Onions that are harvested early are small and edible.

And the leaves can be used as onions.

The claws before the rainy season

and remove them while the leaves follow green.

Dry them until the leaves begin to wither.

In winter it takes ten whole months. It takes a long time to grow.

It looks like her, does not it?

What happened to the old lady who plowed the field of Ichiko?

Now I do that.

If you abandon it, then work on it, it's too much work.

That's why the old lady was busy.

I helped when there were many things to do at home.

But I never properly handled myself I did not take care of vegetables before.

But I think I can try.

So be carefull of fields for her.

In addition, she will probably be back soon.

Dessert

Five years later

KOMORI GRANDE HARVEST FESTIVAL

- These new potatoes. - New potatoes, immediately!

It will not be long. to harvest them.

Ah. Ichiko.

- Hello. It's been a long time. "I heard you came back, but I did not know.

Went to the city to find a companion, no?

This happened, but it was not what I was looking for when I left.

Ol !

Oh, Kikko! How is the baby?

My husband is taking care of him.

- It's lovely. - Thank you.

Do you want any of these?

Ganzuki, huh? Me bring back memories!

Everyone in the association of women vaporized a little.

H hatto and amazake al as well.

My mother used to do Ganzuki when I was little.

And I fought with my brothers for them.

This one is full of walnut. AND this one has knob seed.

There were also perilla for those days! I remember everyone helping.

We are planning to have many children and revive school.

It looks like they're getting along. By the way, Ichiko,

Where is your husband?

Is preparing in the hall from classes to the kagura.

Is there kagura?

Yes, we could not. practice a lot together.

- You too? - Yes.

I'll prepare myself too. See you soon.

"I'll leave you." - Well, see you later.

Luck.

Now I remember, she was very committed to the kagura of children.

He has not participated much since which the school closed,

but went in search of students,

and said that it is bringing people together.

Everyone loved the idea.

It would be great if it worked out and the people would return to Komori.

- Excuse me. - Go on.

What happens, Hii?

I do not understand. On here There's mom's love.

Are you hungry?

- What happens? - I do not know.

Iago