The rice worked!

Hi guys, it's been a while

It's been too long to be honest

We've got a lot of content to cover and I thought I'd start it off with Tiny Kitchen Chat

I need to introduce you to my kitchen like I always do

We got to keep with the tradition

Sorry, I looked up there because I've got a really awful weird setup happening right now

I've got Taylor's suitcase positioned on top of the two bars in my house

With the light on it so that I can have two points of light

That's what it looks like, there's a suitcase on top and there's a light hanging off it

And then you guys are balanced on a table

Anyway, that's what's happening

Oh dear

For those of you who are new, this is my little tiny kitchen

Wow, there's no bench space Emma, how do you make your food?

Well guys, it's very simple

You just get this, which I found at a thing

And you put it over the sink and hey, you've got bench space

First off let's backtrack

For those of you who don't know my computer broke while I was about to go on a trip around Shimane

I'll talk about that trip in a second

But I completely spilled water all over it and it completely frizzed out

And I saved it by putting it in a giant bag of rice

I spent ¥2000, like $20 on rice

So now I have all this rice

I thought when's a better time to do Tokyo Tiny Kitchen Chat when I've got that much rice

I don't know how many kilos it is

Too many kilos

The plan for today is I want to make the persimmon pudding

Persimmon pudding I saw on a website

And they just scooped out the middle, mixed it with milk and sugar

And then put it back in and put it in the fridge

So that sounds really good to me

So I'm also utilizing the rice and making whatever I have in my fridge

I bought a pork shoulder yesterday because it was on special

And I can't find anything online that isn't roasted

So we're just going to fry it like I do with everything

I'm unhealthy but that's ok

I'm going to start by cooking the rice

That's a lot of rice

Now I'm just going to leave that for a couple of years and it should be fine

I went to the international store and I got some stuff, so I want to show you what I bought

I got darjeeling tea marshmallows which I just started snacking on and they're so good

They're so good

They just taste like tea

Like marshmallows and tea

So I got those and I got 4 persimmons

I bought some raspberries because they were on special

It says here 350 but they were half price so they were 125 which was awesome

Wait, no, 175

Still good

Is that right?

I'm so bad a math

Vanilla extract, don't know if we're going to need it but it was cheaper there than it is at my local supermarket

I also got lemongrass ginger and citrus tea

I got my soy whipped cream, this stuff is amazing and I love it to pieces and I get addicted

I'm kinda glad that I can't buy it near me

If I bought it near me, I'd just keep eating it all day every day

And then I also got some green tea soy ice cream

Which is super super super delicious

It's like my favorite but it's kind of melted

And I turned my freezer up to level 2 so it's going to be an ice age

But at least my ice cream will be cold

So let's begin with these persimmons

I can't remember the recipe exactly and I can't remember where to find the recipe

So I'm just going to have to do my best and make this up as I go

Because it seemed really simple and if it sucks then we can do something creative with it

I'm going to cut this bit out of the video because it'll be stressful but I'm going to cut a circle out of the top

Ok, now I'm going to scoop the insides into this

I'll tell you guys what I've been up to recently

Last week, I went on a 7 day trip with Odigo

The name is Odigo, the entire time I say Odeego

So if you watch the videos that I'm going to post from that trip, just ignore me sayin. Odeego, it's Odigo

I got back on Saturday night

Well I went to bed at 1

And then I had to wake up the next day because I had a shoot

I went out for dinner with friends

And then I went home

And then I woke up early again because I did the Metro Game with Kelly

She did a video about that

And then we went out for dinner again with Aki and Joey

And then I went over to Taylor B's house

And then just watched videos with her and her housemates and had a great time

And then I went home and I broke

I was so tired

I'm the kind of person that recharges if I'm alone

I love spending time with people, it's awesome, love it to pieces

But I need just that little bit of time to be by myself and put music in my ears

Otherwise I can't handle it, it just all becomes a bit too much for me

So I spend a lot of time with lots of people

Yesterday, I had the day off, it was so nice

Ok, we have two persimmon cases

One round, one funky looking

I love this new camera by the way

If you're new, I've just got a new camera if you didn't see my last video

I'm using the Canon G7X Mark II which is beautiful

I did all my filming in Shimane on this camera

The footage is really nice and I can't wait to edit and see what kind of stories I can pull out of it

I feel wrong adding cream to it

But, if it goes wrong it's ok, at least I tried it, right?

Ok, I'm going to do that much

There's going to be a bit of this that's quite loud, so I will make it quiet in post

I'm going to add some sugar to it

I'm going to add a bit of vanilla extract too

Not vanilla extract, this is essence I think

Give it another layer of flavor

I feel like it's not going to get any thicker

I think we've reached the limit

It's pretty good

It's pretty thick

Let me see if I can zoom in for you guys

Cute

That's kind of cute, in a sloppy kind of way

I'm going to put them in the fridge

Oh, this one's not doing well

It's kind of spilling over this side, but that's good enough

I'll put it in the fridge

I'm going to make some actual food that I can eat

Before I eat the food

I'm going to get the rest of the pork shoulder I bought

I've already eaten half of it

Now, I want to tell you guys about my plans for Christmas because it's really cool

My parents are coming to visit in a month

I think a month exactly today

And then after that I'm flying with them to the UK

Because my sister lives in the UK so I'm going to go and visit her

Also the rest of my family lives in the UK, so all my aunts and uncles

So I'm going to go visit all my cousins and have a good time

Because I've missed them

And any cousins who are watching, like Sean or Alex or whatever

I miss you and I'll see you soon

And then after that I'm going to somewhere in Europe for New Years

We're deciding today, but somewhere in Europe for New Year's

With my friends from university who went to France to do cram school

After that, I'm going to the Netherlands to see my friend Laura

She's really cool

We're going to hang out and have a good time there

And then after that I'm going back to the UK

That's when I'm seeing my sister

Say hi bye to everyone and then back to Japan

So I'm going to be gone for about 3 weeks

I'm wondering if I should make some videos before I go and have a bit of Japan and also

a bit of me traveling

Don't know how I'm going to do that though because it's so soon

I'm so busy all the time

How am I supposed to fit all this meat in this pan?

So that's what I'm looking forward to in December and the start of January and I'm so excited

Super excited

Can't wait to see my family, it's been way too long

I felt so happy today, today's been great

I think it's because I got a day off yesterday

Ok, more vegetables

God I love this camera, I love this camera, it is my child

My baby

It makes me look so bright and happy and vibrant

Pretty much I'm just doing a stir fry

It's a big old stir in a really small frying pan

And I'm just going to put this on top

And then I'm going to add the rice in a second

The rice in a second

I'm going to add the rice in a second

I want to add butter

I want to add salt

I want to add garlic but I ain't got none

I only got salt and butter

I hear you saying, "Emma, why is the lid so small?"

Well, the thing is I don't own a big lid. So we can all get over it and move on

Here we go, alrighty, going to put the rice in the thing

Ok, I think this is two meals worth

I added some butter to this, but I didn't film it because I don't want to show how much butter I add to things

Because it's embarassing

Alright, I'm going to set the table, and let's eat

Ok so the food doesn't actually look very good hahaha.

Bless you, thanks

Sorry for the weird lighting guys, I'm using a lamp

Now you can't even see the food

Why is this always so difficult?

We made it to dinner

I have my stir fry and rice, and I have my persimmon pudding

I'm going to chuck a bit of this in my face

I know it tastes good because I had it yesterday

It looks like I don't put many seasonings on things

And that is true, I'm not good at seasoning things, so I just avoid it

That's really good, I'm going to eat that whole thing

But first, I'm nervous, we're going to try the persimmon pudding

I think one thing to do if you do this is to whip the cream first and then add the persimmon

maybe

Might make it a bit thicker

Itadakimasu

I didn't itadakimasu that but here we go, itadakimasu

The persimmon and the creamy taste is a bit odd, but it works

It's a really light subtle persimmon flavor

But it's definitely there, and it definitely adds to the cream and the sugar

I really like that, thank goodness

I was so worried these weren't going to turn out

And they look kind of terrible, but they taste really good

Alright, I'm going to sit here and eat all of my food and have a wonderful evening

And then I'm going to edit this video

Thank you so much for watching guys

And get excited for the videos coming from my trip to Shimane

I'm really excited to start editing those and give them to you guys

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Get ready, here it comes, do it with me

You don't have to, it might be weird for you if you're with friends

Ok, here we go, jyaaaane