Cook 16

Okay, this one took me forever.

It would have been really great if I could have at least finished it before the new year, so it could at least be somewhat timely, but it didn't work out that way. But at least it's finally ready to go and I'm happy to share it with you all.

Thanks also to verdandi for her hard work cleaning and typesetting this one.

Cooking Papa Volume 2 Chapter 16: Try to Make Your Own New Year's Soba

Coming back to life

I know things have been dead around here lately, but I'm finally working on getting things back up and running. I have the next chapter translated, and have handed it off to an editor to get it typeset and ready to go. It should hopefully be up in a week or two.

Cook 15

Finally, it's here!

I'm not very good at typesetting, so it was really dragging me down. Luckily, DesuCake offered to do the typesetting for me, and here we are, with a new chapter for all of you guys who have been waiting very politely. ChooChoo also did the cleaning. This has almost turned into a group, rather than just me alone.

The recipe says to cook the chicken at 300°C, which sounds pretty ridiculous to me. Most high-temperature chicken recipes go up only to about 250 degrees, and most ovens in Japan get only as high as 260 degrees.

Cooking Papa Volume 2 Chapter 15: Roast Chicken to Your Heart's Content

Not dead

Just posting a note to let you guys know that I haven't given up on this, but I'm just feeling somewhat painfully unmotivated and will get around to it eventually. Hopefully in the next week or two.

I've determined that I kind of hate typesetting, so if anyone who has experience with typesetting (and possibly also cleaning) is interested in helping out, feel free to email me with a link to some chapters that you've worked on in the past. I really am only looking for people who have done typesetting before, though, so if you offer without showing me some of your past work I'll probably ignore it.

Cook 14

Here's the wikipedia article about Yamamomo. I have no idea what it tastes like.

Choochoo helped out with the cleaning again this time.

Cooking Papa Volume 2 Chapter 14: Snow Watching Hot Pot for Cold Winters

Cook 13

It's the first chapter of volume two!

I have a new cleaner helping me out for this volume, Choochoo. Thanks Choochoo!

Cooking Papa Volume 2 Chapter 13: Coffee Liqueur for Coffee Lovers

Clayton's Rice Soup

Clayton sent me another delicious-looking picture, this time of the rice soup recipe from Volume 1 Chapter 10: Simple Hangover Rice Soup.

Please keep sending me recipes at bartley.tanaka@gmail.com!