単語 (vocabulary)

Trying a new trick; not done with it.

First, I've been able to get Anki to stop being so hard I can't learn (I tend to forget the word as soon as I'm no longer looking at the flashcard). Bury enough cards that you've only got like 3; then learn them.

I want to automate the process.  Looks like someone's gone a long way toward it:

https://nihongo-e-na.com/eng/hint/id750_1.html

This gets you an Excel spreadsheet with the word; the ふりがな; and the English meaning.

This page looks like it has a way to convert Excel to Anki by way of a .csv file:

https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-make-my-Excel-list-turn-into-a-Anki-deck

I haven't tested it yet, but will soon.

精進料理

精進料理 (Shoujin ryouri, Japanese Buddhist monk cuisine) is vegan, healthy, simple, and...maybe too simple. I've been looking through the "Look inside!" excerpt on Amazon Japan. Carrot soup: carrots, butter, salt, water. Yeah, I think I see that. But I'm spoiled.

Still, I'm getting a lot from these recipes. にんじん、ばたー、塩、水．材料；作りの方.

来週ポテトサラダを作りますよ：パセリとマスタードをいれます。ごぼう(burdocks)のご飯ーーたぶん；にんじんを使います、でも、ごぼうがバージニアにあります。英語の料理本と、カレーのカリフアワーのタコス、「秋のボール」（日本の文化であること、わかりません）、昼ご飯の作ります。最近(these days)、料理が大好きです！

レシピたち

一年ぐらいがありました。忙しかったーとても！本を書きました。違うことたちありました。
一こと：exercise, good health, healthy調理. と楽しかったね。でもー日本語にconnect withできますか？[If all that's too garbled... One thing: exercise, good health, healthy cooking [I guess that's one thing]. It's been lots of fun. But--can I connect it with Japanese?
はい、すごい。ウェブサイトがfound.  ここ少しがあります：

https://cookpad.com/
https://www.oishiiamerica.com/
https://www.orangepage.net/

I figure the small subject area will make me able to handle vocabulary (I hope!) in this limited area.

I forget words almost as soon as I read them, I'm afraid. But I already got 小さじand大さじ(teaspoon and tablespoon -- how happy I am to not have to learn metric for everything!).

I'm back in Kanji Study and have reinstalled Anki. Maybe I'll post the Anki deck I'm creating for cooking later.

And I am very excited to have found and ordered Grandma's Shojin Ryori -- a book on how to do the shoujin ryouri, Buddhist/vegan style of cooking, which is rare, mostly I just see picture books (!) -- and I got it in Japanese -- and I ordered it from the U.S. so it won't cost my firstborn in shipping.