Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Winter 2026 anime The Mushroom Witch ending theme "Kimi wa..." You are...

Seems like some websites hosting content they don't have the license to like to prevent people from merely copy & pasting text from their pages - and a little snippet of Javascript (easily blocked) tries to stop that. But it's just as easy to view a page with No Style & then it's just bare bones with text you can easily lift out. To wit... The lyrics & a better translation of the ending theme as indicated by this entry's title.

Kokoro no naka ni shimatte oita      Kept hidden in my heart
Itsuka no kanashimi                  was someday's sadness
Ima wa kirei da ne                   Now it’s pretty

Eien no isshun shizuku ni natte      An eternal moment, becoming a drop
Mabuta no uragawa hikatte iru yo     is shining behind my eyelids!

Ah kimi wa yume                      You are a dream
Ah... hoshizora                      The starry sky
Ah kimi wa ai kimi wa...             You are love, you are...
 

Sunday, January 11, 2026

Saurkraut Rice Maki Rolls

So after eating your New Years' saurkraut & ham, you're left with water from the crockpot. What do you do? Dump it out? Hell, no! You find out how much water you got & cook rice in it!

I noticed I had almost 2 cups of saurkraut crockpot water left from cooking it, and there was flavor needing enjoyed. 1 cup of rice would be perfect. But what to do afterwards? I had some nori sheets hanging around so I made maki rolls! These really are meant to be eaten cold. Hopefully next time I get the idea to make some, I can wait patiently with these in the fridge much like breakfast pizza. I had enough rice to make 4 maki rolls. I managed to not eat 2 until later & that's when they held firm & cut easily.

The flavor was amazing. With my sister's hand crafted kraut according to the Algonquin Mill recipe & a small 1 pound brown sugar cured sliced ham - after 12 hours on low in the crock pot - produced something divine. I didn't even make any mashed potatoes... A bit salty as expected, slightly diluted by the water I had to add to give me 2 cups of fluid. I didn't stick to my rice pan nor did it burn. One thing I will not do next time is add any rice vinegar. This really didn't need any.