海外ドラマや映画が好きで、いろんなジャンルをよく観ます。

英語の作品だと、実際の音声と字幕を比べるのも楽しいです。

『いまのセリフの翻訳、すてきだなぁ』『あ、結構バッサリ削ってる…』など。。。

日本語のタイトルが原題と同じものもあれば、異なるときもあります。

違いを知ったときに『へぇ～(‘Д’)！』となったものはたくさんあります！

カールじいさんの空飛ぶ家　⇔　Up　／　ワイルド・スピード　⇔　Fast & Furious　などは

知っている人も多いのではないでしょうか(^^)

みなさんの好きな映画も、もしかしたら言語によってタイトルが違うかもしれませんよー！

I don’t usually like anime or manga much besides some horror classics… but I really love Sailor Moon!!

Sailor Moon was popular when I was a little kid and I watched the anime from the 90s. My favorite character is Sailor Venus. She is beautiful and powerful and I love her red hair ribbon and her heart symbol!

I still like pink and cute space designs so I still love Sailor Moon goods. Last week Nikki and I went to look at the Valentine’s Day display at Apita. Look at all the Sailor Moon goods!! I bought candy lipstick with Sailor Venus’ symbol on it ❤ 

先週末は初めての共通テストでしたね。

そして今週末には第3回の英検があります。

学年を問わず、学生の皆さんには

なかなか大変な時期ですね。

くれぐれも体調だけは崩さないように!!

みなさんこんにちは。

一月もあっという間ですね。もう、すぐに2月です。

僕の一番好きな食べ物はカレーです。どんなお店に入ってもカレーがあったらついつい頼んでしまいます。インドカレーのようなスパイス強めなカレーも好きですが、やっぱり僕は、いわゆる日本のカレーが一番です。インド料理屋さんは簡単に探せますが、日本の普通のカレーのお店を探すとなると以外と見つからないんです。まだお気に入りのカレー屋さんに出会えていません。たまにカフェなんかにあるんですが、やっぱりカフェじゃなくて、カレーで勝負してる店に行きたいんです！おしゃれなキーマカレーや、インスタ映えのカレーは間に合ってます！かといって日本のカレーのお店に行くと個性を出すために隠し味でフルーツ大量に入れました全然隠れてないよフルーツ臭いっぱいカレーとか、欧風カレーバターと高級食材たくさん入れました溶けててわかんないけどねお会計1800円カレーなど、なかなか自分好みのカレーに出会えません。別に自分は味や、スタイルにうるさい訳ではありません。野菜ゴロゴロでもしっかり溶け切ったものでも、シャビシャビでもねっとりでも何でも大丈夫です。食べたいのは、パーキングエリアにあるようなシンプルなカレーです！もしおすすめの日本のカレー屋さんを知っていたらぜひ貧乏舌の僕に教えてください！

Over the vacation, since I couldn’t go back to America to spend the holidays with my family, I was feeling rather homesick for Western food (which is a rather unusual state of affairs for me; I generally prefer east Asian food to Western food). As a result, I learned some new recipes to bring the West to me!

The easiest recipe to learn was Irish soda bread.

It’s not called “soda” bread because it uses, like, cola or other such soda. The “soda” is instead “baking soda”. Unlike yeast, when you leaven with soda, you don’t need to leave your dough to proof somewhere warm for four hours. Instead, you just pop it in the oven, and the heat of the oven in combination with acidic ingredients in the recipe (buttermilk, in this case) produces carbon dioxide bubbles that escape, puffing up the dough and leaving behind many small bubbles for maximum fluff. I usually make peasant bread, with is leavened with yeast. Peasant bread is the easiest, most basic bread on earth. It only has five ingredients. However, because the leavening agent is yeast, you’re left sitting around for several hours while the yeast feast and produce CO2. With soda bread, there is no wait! Granted, it uses a lot more ingredients, but because there’s no proofing stage, it’s way quicker.

Both breads have their pros and cons. However, I’ve been making lots of peasant bread in Japan anyways, so the novelty of Irish soda bread was really refreshing.

Next, I needed something to enjoy my bread with. Keeping with the Irish theme, I decided to learn a potato soup recipe.

I’ve made a variety of soups in the past, but none that required turning any of the ingredients into mush to work haha. That was definitely a new experience. Aside from the inconvenience of cooking the potatoes and then having to wait awhile for them to cool off, creaming the potatoes wasn’t difficult at all with my little blender. I shudder to think of making a larger portion of soup, but for just me my little blender sufficed. After that it was smooth sailing. Add cream, mix, warm up, and serve with a couple slices of bread!

Unfortunately, in the time between making the soda bread and making the soup, I ate all the soda bread. So pictured above is the potato soup paired with peasant bread, instead! I highly recommend both options, personally. They’re great for dipping.