Yokohama Ie-kei ramen

With the opening of "Yoshimuraya" in Yokohama in 1974, Yokohamaya type of ramen became known in Kanagawa prefecture and later on the whole of Japan. Pork bone soy sauce broth (including chicken) that is boiled for long hours with plenty of chiyu (chicken oil) added is one of its unique characteristics. You can also customize the ramen according to your preferences such as more flavor, more oil and firm noodles, with the basic 3 pieces of laver, spinach and pork slices. The most common thick noodles come from "Sakai noodles" manufacturer, but many shops also use noodles from "Ohashi noodles", "Maruyama noodles" and "Marutomi noodles". The number of disciples of "Yoshimuraya" owner, Yoshimura Minoru who have succeeded the shop's authentic taste exceeds 300, and the main branch of "Yoshimuraya" has an average of 1500 customers waiting in line daily. There are 8 shops that are formally recognised as having the same lineage, namely "Sugitaya", "Hajimeya", "Kanniya", "Oodoya", "Matsuriya", "Yokoyokoya", "Takamatsuya" and "Atsugiya" .

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CURRY IN A HURRY | Recipes | Nigella Lawson

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LIPOVITAN FINE NEW CM! 井上真央

青空広がる清々しい休日。こんな日に家をまるごと洗ったら、さぞ気持ちいいだろうと閃いた井上真央さん。
愛犬達とともに、元気におそうじを開始します。
さわやかな太陽を浴びながら、バケツで水撒き、ブラシでゴシゴシ。そんな元気で楽しく、
思う存分におそうじを楽しむ井上真央さんを通じて、リポビタンファインが持つ明るい元気を表現しました。

デッキをブラシで明るく元気に磨くカット。
うれしそうな表情を浮かべ、シャーッシャーッと
ブラシのこすれる音でリズムをとってみたり、
デッキ中を元気に駆け回るちょっとおちゃめな

井上真央さんでした。

撮影の合間、井上真央さんは共演者のウィンディ、
ガジローと楽しそうに遊んでいました。
積極的に井上真央さんと遊ぶウィンディを、
少し遠くから羨ましそうに見るシャイなガジロー。
雲ひとつない青空の下、井上真央さんのおそうじを
手伝えて（？）ごきげんな二匹でした。
                                           

井上真央さんが屋根の上からバケツで元気に
水を撒くカット。あたたかな太陽と、
肌をそよそよと撫でる潮風を感じながら、
さわやかな笑顔でバケツを構えます。
屋根の上でも動じることなく、むしろ元気
いっぱいに水を撒く井上真央さんでした。

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リポビタンファイン「お家まるごと水洗い」篇 15秒｜大正製薬

井上真央さん出演の大正製薬 リポビタンファイン 新CM の「お家まるごと水洗い」篇です。
さわやかな太陽を浴びながら、バケツで水撒き、ブラシでゴシゴシ。そんな元気で楽しく­、思う存分におそうじを楽しむ井上真央さんを通じて、リポビタンファインが持つ明るい­元気を表現しています。
「わたしの元気のつくりかた。」をキーワードとしてリポビタンファインでは、毎日を元­気で前向きに生きる女性を応援していきます。

リポビタンファイン「お家まるごと水洗い」篇 30秒｜大正製薬

井上真央さん出演の大正製薬 リポビタンファイン 新CM の「お家まるごと水洗い」篇です。
さわやかな太陽を浴びながら、バケツで水撒き、ブラシでゴシゴシ。そんな元気で楽しく­、思う存分におそうじを楽しむ井上真央さんを通じて、リポビタンファインが持つ明るい­元気を表現しています。
「わたしの元気のつくりかた。」をキーワードとしてリポビタンファインでは、毎日を元­気で前向きに生きる女性を応援していきます。

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Hearts Desire Surprise Inside Cake

INGREDIENTS (8 servings )

For the recipe Hearts Desire Surprise Inside Cake
For the Heart:
Dr. Oetker Cake Release Spray
125 g Margarine (4 ½ oz) softened
125 g Caster Sugar (4 ½ oz)
Medium Eggs x 2
200 g Plain Flour (7 oz)
10 g Dr. Oetker Baking Powder (2 tsp)
Dr. Oetker Bright Red Gel Food Colour
For the chocolate cake:
115 g Margarine (4 oz)
115 g Caster Sugar (4 oz)
Medium Eggs x 2, beaten
5 ml Dr. Oetker Madagascan Vanilla Extract (1 tsp)
100 g Plain Flour (3 ½ oz)
25 g Cocoa Powder (1 oz)
5 g Dr. Oetker Baking Powder (1 tsp)
For the Decoration:
75 g Dr. Oetker Fine Cooks Dark Chocolate (3 oz)
40 g Unsalted Butter (2 ½ oz)
PROCEDURE

1
Preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C Fan, Gas Mark 4). Lightly spray a 7cm (2 ¾ inch) deep, 450g (1lb) loaf tin with Cake Release Spray. To make the heart centre; Put the margarine in a bowl with the caster sugar and eggs. Sieve the flour and Baking Powder on top. Carefully mix all the ingredients together then whisk for a few seconds until well blended.

2
Mix in sufficient Red Gel Food Colour to make a vibrant shade (you will need approx. 90 drops), and spoon into the loaf tin. Smooth the top and bake for about 1 hour until risen and firm to the touch – a skewer inserted into the centre should come out clean. Cool for 5 minutes, before turning on to a wire rack to cool completely.

3
Put the cold loaf cake on a board and slice off both crusty ends. Cut the loaf into 7 slices. Using a 7.5cm (3inch) wide heart shaped cutter, cut out 1 heart from each slice – keep all the trimmings for cake pops or truffles. Place on a tray lined with baking parchment and freeze the hearts for 30 minutes.
4
For the chocolate cake, wash out the loaf tin and re-apply Cake Release Spray. Put the margarine in a bowl with the caster sugar, eggs and Vanilla. Sieve the flour, cocoa and Baking Powder on top. Carefully mix all the ingredients together then whisk for a few seconds until well blended.

5
Thickly spread some of the cake mixture over the bottom and sides of the tin, making sure it is completely covered. Arrange the sponge hearts, upright, down the length of the tin, closely together so that they support each other.

6
Carefully spoon the remaining cake mixture on top of the hearts, gently tapping the tin on the work surface to help the mixture settle round the hearts. Make sure the hearts are well covered in cake mixture to help create the surprise.
7
Put the tin on a baking tray and bake in the oven for about 50 minutes until risen and firm to the touch, and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from the tin, and leave to cool completely on a wire rack.

8
To decorate, break the Dark Chocolate into a small, heavy bottomed saucepan. Add the butter and 15ml (1 tbsp) water. Heat very gently, stirring occasionally, until melted together and smooth. Remove from the heat and set aside for about 20 minutes to cool to a thick, coating consistency.

9
Put the loaf cake on the wire rack over a tray. When the chocolate mixture starts to thicken, spoon over the top of the loaf. Gently tap the wire rack on the tray to spread and smooth the icing on top, letting it drip down the sides of the cake. Leave to stand in a cool place for several minutes to allow the icing to set before transferring to a serving plate. Your cake is ready to slice and surprise!

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■JJ’s Broiler（ジェイジェイズブロイラー）店舗情報
住所：3416 Rice St #101，Lihue, HI
電話番号：808-246-4422
営業時間：10：30～22：00

■シダの洞窟
住所：Wailua Marine State Park，Kauai

■Hamura Saimin（ハムラ・サイミン）店舗情報
住所：2956 Kress St, Lihue, HI
電話番号：808-245-3271
営業時間：月～木10：00～22：00、金土10：00～24：00、日曜日10：00～21：30

■KICKS／HI（キックスハイ）店舗情報
住所：1530 Makaloa St, Honolulu, HI
電話番号：808-941-9191
営業時間：月～土11：00～20：00、日曜日11：00～17：00

■ナ・メア・ハワイ店舗情報
住所：1050 Ala Moana Blvd．，Honolulu
電話番号：808-596-8885
営業時間：月～土10：00～21：00、日曜日10：00～18：00

■PROPSHOP（プロップショップ）店舗情報
住所：326 Kuulei Rd, Kailua, HI
電話番号：808-271-7770
営業時間：11：00～16：00（変更あり）

■Lanikai Juice（ラニカイジュース）店舗情報
住所：600 Kailua Rd #101，Kailua，HI 96734 Kailua Shopping Center
電話番号：(808)262-2383
営業時間：月～金6：00～20：00、土日7：00～19：00
定休日：無休（祝祭日は問い合わせ）

■Hawaiian Quilt Collection（ハワイアン・キルト・コレクション）店舗情報
住所：226 Lewers St．
電話番号：808-924-9889

■Shige’s Saimin Stand（シゲズ・サイミン・スタンド）店舗情報
住所：70 Kukui St #108，Wahiawa，HI 
電話番号：808-621-3621
営業時間：月～木10：00～22：00、金土10：00～24：00
定休日：日曜日

■Ice Palace（アイスパレス）店舗情報
住所：4510 Salt Lake Blvd B6, Honolulu, HI
電話番号：808-487-9921
営業時間：月火11：00～15：00、水木11：00～15：00、金9：00～15：00、18：00～23：00、土11：00～23：00、日10：30～19：30

■Kapiolani Coffee Shop（カピオラニ コーヒー ショップ）店舗情報
住所：Waimalu Shopping Ctr，98-020 Kamehameha Hwy，Aiea，HI
電話番号：808-488-7708
営業時間：6：30～23：00

■マキキ聖城キリスト教会店舗情報
住所：829ペンサコラ通り ホノルル
電話番号：808-594-8919

■ザ・グルーヴ・ハワイ店舗情報
住所：805 Ala Moana Blvd, Honolulu, HI
電話番号：808-692-0684
営業時間：9：00～22：00
定休日：無休

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Oreo Peanut Butter - Crazy for Crust

Oreo Peanut Butter - Crazy for Crust

MAKE HOMEMADE COOKIE BUTTER (WITH ANY COOKIE!)

INGREDIENTS:
2 cups cookie crumbs
1/2 stick butter
1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk
1/4 cup evaporated milk
water as needed

PROCEDURE:
First you'll want to make your cookie crumbs. If you have a cookie with no creamy middle filling (like a chocolate chip or sugar cookie), then you can put them straight into the food processor. If you do have a filling (like an Oreo or Nutter Butter would), then you'll want to open the cookie and scrape out the filling with a butter knife first. You want a dry crumb to work with, so the filling has to be removed. Some cookies have a solid middle that you can't open and get to (like a Milano cookie), but I think that would be OK since the chocolate chip cookies have some chocolate bits mixed in and they turned out fine. Place your cookies into the food processor and blend until it forms a very fine powder. You'll need 2 cups, so just keep blending cookies until you get there (since all the cookies are different sizes or have two sides per cookie, the number of cookies needed won't be the same).

In a small saucepan, heat the butter over low heat until melted, and then stir in your sweetened condensed milk and evaporated milk until it's all melted together. Starting with 1/2 cup of the liquid, pour it into your cookie crumbs and mix together with a spoon. Keep adding small amounts of the liquid until the cookie butter is just wet enough to stay together. Depending on how dry the cookie is to begin with, you'll need more or less liquid. Really buttery cookies (like the sugar cookies) didn't need nearly as much as the drier Oreo cookies, so just keep checking and stirring as you add the liquid.

Once your cookie butter is blended, allow it to cool in the fridge for an hour or two. If you want to, you can actually stop at this point, and it will taste delicious. But if you want to make the cookie butter smoother and easier to dip things in, then remove the cookie butter from the fridge and stir very small amounts of water (start with 1/8 teaspoon) into the dough. At first it will look like the water is separating from the dough, but just keep stirring and mashing. You should start to notice that the cookie butter loosens up a bit as you stir in more water. Keep adding and stirring until you get to a consistency you like and refrigerate the mixture again.

Store your cookie butter in the fridge and it should be good for at least a week or two. It may be good for even longer but it usually doesn't last long enough to find out!

I love all my cookie butter children equally, buuuut, the Oreo is my secret favorite. I am addicted to chocolate-covered pretzels, so you can imagine how good dipping pretzels into the Oreo cookie butter is. (Elsie ate it with apples one morning for breakfast!) And of course, spooning the cookie butter into jars and adding a simple paper label makes your homemade treat the perfect gift! Especially if you make it from their particularly favorite cookie...which in my case would be the orange-flavored Milano cookies. What cookies would you use to make yours? xo. Laura

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Gunma-chan is named the champion of the 2014 mascot character contest

Have you ever wondered how Kumamon suddenly burst into the spotlight back in 2011? It was the result of his victory in the national mascot character contest, the Yuru-kyara Grand Prix. The contest has been held every year since 2010 and Kumamon was the first major winner in 2011.

Voting for the annual contest runs from August to October every year and people are eligible to vote for their favorite character (usually the one representing their town or prefecture) once a day for the duration of the contest. Well, the results for the 2014 contest are finally in, and it looks like a certain entrant took the win by a nose.

Congratulations, Gunma-chan!

After taking third prize in both 2012 and 2013, Gunma-chan from, of course, Gunma Prefecture was finally named the champion.

Now, Gunma-chan is no stranger to the spotlight. He’s technically been around since 1983, when he was first created as a mascot for the 38th National Athletic Festival held in Gunma. He has however, had a huge makeover since then, transforming from a four-legged, blue-maned horse in 1983 to the brown, hind-leg walking pony in the green hat that we know today. He’s had a name change as well; the current model was originally named Yuuma, a mix of Yuuaipikku (the name of the athletic meet for mentally handicapped people which he hosted) and Gunma. It was later changed to the more appropriate Gunma-chan when he took over advertising duties for the entire prefecture in 2008.

Since his renaming, Gunma-chan has been quite busy promoting the different attractions of his homeland. He has his own blog, Facebook page, house (a shop which sells both Gunma prefectural goods), a dance, merchandise, and even cookies! He’s quite the star in his home prefecture and they are proud of him!

The question of whether or not Gumna-chan will be the next Kumamon is one that only time can answer. But the winners from the past two years, Bari-san from Ehime Prefecture’s Imabari City (2012) and Sanomaru-kun from Tochigi Prefecture (2013) barely scratched the surface of popularity that their senpai has.

If not Gunma-chan this year, maybe next year’s winner will rise to fame. Although there will always be outliers, this year’s second- and third-place winners, Fukka-chan from Fukaya, Saitama (below-right), and Mikyan from Ehime Prefecture (below-left) respectively, have a good chance.

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Gunma-chan wins 2014 mascot character contest

By Audrey Akcasu

NATIONAL NOV. 06, 2014 - 06:57AM JST

Have you ever wondered how Kumamon suddenly burst into the spotlight back in 2011? It was the result of his victory in the national mascot character contest, the Yuru-kyara Grand Prix. The contest has been held every year since 2010 and Kumamon was the first major winner in 2011.

Voting for the annual contest runs from August to October every year and people are eligible to vote for their favorite character (usually the one representing their town or prefecture) once a day for the duration of the contest. Well, the results for the 2014 contest are finally in, and it looks like a certain entrant took the win by a nose.

After taking third prize in both 2012 and 2013, Gunma-chan from, of course, Gunma Prefecture was finally named the champion.

Now, Gunma-chan is no stranger to the spotlight. He’s technically been around since 1983, when he was first created as a mascot for the 38th National Athletic Festival held in Gunma. He has however, had a huge makeover since then, transforming from a four-legged, blue-maned horse in 1983 to the brown, hind-leg walking pony in the green hat that we know today. He’s had a name change as well; the current model was originally named Yuuma, a mix of Yuuaipikku (the name of the athletic meet for mentally handicapped people which he hosted) and Gunma. It was later changed to the more appropriate Gunma-chan when he took over advertising duties for the entire prefecture in 2008.

Since his renaming, Gunma-chan has been quite busy promoting the different attractions of his homeland. He has his own blog, Facebook page, house (a shop which sells both Gunma prefectural goods), a dance, merchandise, and even cookies! He’s quite the star in his home prefecture and they are proud of him.

The question of whether or not Gumna-chan will be the next Kumamon is one that only time can answer. But the winners from the past two years, Bari-san from Ehime Prefecture’s Imabari City (2012) and Sanomaru-kun from Tochigi Prefecture (2013) barely scratched the surface of popularity that their senpai has.

Sources: Yurukyara Grand Prix, Gunma Prefecture, Ehime Prefecture

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