I am feeling quite better today. Yesterday, by the time I got off the bus I felt damn delirious. I needed medicine or something and fast. Didn’t feel like I could make it to a regular drugstore so I went to the Sev near my apartment. After making an attempt to gesture through my list of symptoms to the clerk, we established that they did not carry medicine for fevers and headaches. They did have quite the selection of vitamin drinks though (as do most stores and vending machines here) so I picked up a rather potent looking bottle and went home. Had some supper, shot that back as well as some echinacea and Reactine (for allergies I think but hey…it’s a pill) and went to bed at 9pm. Woke up at 6am and no…back to sleep. Back up at 6:35am and I think I could have slept for longer but something told me to get up get up.
Now I am at work and I feel weird…like…still congested and weak but refreshed and energetic. I feel like…comatose’d on speed (??)
Anyway, another story. I don`t think Japan does peanut butter like Canada does peanut butter. This is a good thing because it is quite the addictive substance for me. When I looked at the peanut butter selection in the grocery store, the unfamiliar packaging and brands made me hesitant to buy any. Still, a few weeks ago I thought that I should experiment so I picked this up:
I should have at least tried reading the package before buying it though. ピーナッツクリーム can be read as piinattu kuriimu…peanut cream not butter. When I opened the container I was quite surprised to see this:
I tried a little and it was kind of weird because it was not peanut butter…but not so bad. My final assessment was that this was like caramel sauce, but peanut flavoured and not so sweet. Still…not so good on bread so what could I do with it? How about peanut and banana pancakes?!!
They were quite good – I recommend making them if you can find peanut cream near you. So this reminds me that I should do a Meg in the Kitchen bit at some point because of all the interesting food/cooking adventures I can have here.
One last note – this site was hardcore comment spammed yesterday. If anyone knows a good wordpress spam control plugin please let me know. Currently I have to approve all comments so the spam doesn’t actually get to my site…but I get buckets of emails telling me that comments are waiting for moderation in my inbox and that is not fun.
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mayumi said,
Hello, this is mayumi Ihara, I come by your site first time. How is your feeling?? Hopefully your feeling is much better today. Get well soon!!
As for the peanut butter, it is right that peanut butter or cream in Japan is very sweet. We call it peanut butter or cream though it is not real pure peanut.(but, it might be possible for you to buy a real one here, too) When I was in US, I realized that peanut butter was not sweet!
It was a real peanut taste!! I learned from people who lived in a same house that putting some peanut butter with raspberry or strawberry jams on a slice of bread when I made sandwiches for breakfast. It was a king of surprise to me, but taste wasn’t bad at all. I don’t know if you do like that in Canada. But, your banana and Japanese peanut cream pancake for breakfast seems very delicious to me！
Hendrik said,
Hi, I hope you are feeling better. I have been fighting an annoying cold for nearly a week now and finally I think its end is near. Hope yours will pass much faster.
Your ‘but hey … its a pill’ had me laughing hard.
The peanut cream looks weird, but the combination with banana and pancake sounds potentially delicious.
I don’t have any Wordpress experience, but maybe take a look at this
http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/AuthImage
to stop the spammers.
Sarah said,
Hi Meghan! Hope you are feeling better!!! That pancake looked delicious!!! yummy.
John Roller said,
Hi, I just got back from my very first ever trip to Japan, where (among other things) I was introduced to peanut cream, and it is delicious! I’m wondering if anybody knows where you can get it in the U.S. (specifically, I live near Charlotte, North Carolina). You can write to me at johnroller@faithbiblechristian.com. Hope your day is great!!
Judy said,
I used to live in Japan, and I loved the peanut cream. I have been craving it for the last five years and haven’t found anywhere in the U.S. that sells it. If anyone knows where I can buy some, please, please, please post it. Thank you!
