The founding 5 brewers of the Kochi Craft Beer Association. Likely, I will be the seventh member, if we make progress with the location challenge that is.

I hope that there is some female representation in the group in the future and have some plans in that regard.

We received a box of very ripe tomatoes from our tomato farmer friend and they need to be used very soon.. so lots of simple tomato sauce bases will be made today!

As well as a tomato tart for lunch, and some roasted tomatoes.. delicious.

“Haw you get aff o ma lawn!”

No really, we bought the Duplo for my youngest daughter.. absolutely not for papa..

My 5 year old daughter was at home today for an obligatory ‘stay at home after a fever day’, so we decided to cook together.

We made a tomato and red lentil pasta sauce with croutons, served with spaghetti. I think we have only bought 1 jar of pasta sauce since we moved here and not only due to the absence of variety.. we cook an array of kick ass sauces nowadays from scratch.

Hello!!

Arrived while my wife is out.. challenging times lie ahead.. I have no regrets.. yet.

Thought I would branch out my re-awakened stew skills to match the red coloured veg in the fridge. It was very tasty but thankfully enough left to toss some pasta through tomorrow.

We had a few meetings with construction companies today about renovating an old house to share with my wife’s parents. Different approaches and perhaps different levels of adherence to our proposed budget. There are likely to be some very tricky conversations coming up soon.

We recently took a trip to Kagawa Prefecture to visit some breweries. it’s hard work but we did our best!

Mother-in-law features in a Japan Times article and mentions me.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2023/10/29/food-drink/inaka-sushi-kochi/

In the neighbourhood of our future brewery (hopefully), there is a lot of this beautiful nature going on here.