Today's Meal :-)))

Kidney Beans Soup

2005-07-12T11:07:00.000+09:00

Kidney beans soup
Kidney beans are healthy!! the other day, My share-mate's family sent many kinds of vegetables to her, so now there are many vegetables in our refrigerator, especially kidney beans...haha. So we will eat much kidney beans from now for a while. But i like kidney beans!

Kidney Beans Soup

1, wash vegetables (kidney beans, spinach)
2, and cut onion, spinach (maybe you can add more vegetables in this miso-soup)
3, fly onion a little bit
4, and then, put water to a pot (500 cc)
5, boil water, and put kidney beans and spinach to it
6, dissolve some miso in hot water
7, and boil and add seasoning
8, Finish :-))

Bacon and Kidney Bean

2005-07-10T11:06:00.000+09:00

bacon and Kidney Bean
easy easy easy!! please try to cook this if you want!!

Bacon and Kidney Beans

cut Bacons and Kidney Beans
Roll up Kidney Beans with Bacon
and season them with salt and pepper
and fly them
Finish :-)))

Vegetable-soup

2005-07-08T16:31:00.000+09:00

Vegitable-soup
Tomato soup, Chinese style soup, and today Vegitable soup!
I used only vegitables (carrotts, Cabbages, Spinach, and onion)
Its very very healthy, isnt it? and its delicious.

Vegetable-Soup

cut vegitables carrots, cabbages, spinach, and onions
then, fly these vegetables, in this order; onion, carrots, cabbages
and put water to it (500cc, for 2)
and boil them
put stock cube of consomme to them
and boil
add spinach
boil for a while
Finish!!!

Niku-jaga

2005-07-07T14:05:00.000+09:00

Niku-jaga

Niku-jaga is traditional japenese dish? I think so. When i become someone's wife, I want to cook Niku-jaga well. haha. Niku-jaga is Ohukuro-no-Aji for Japanese?? Ohukuro-no-Aji means "taste like what my mother used to make". so for Japanese women, it's better to be able to cook Niku-jaga well (?)

Niku-jaga (for 2-3 people)

1, peel potats (3 potates)
2, and cut potatos, onion, beef (about 200g)
3, mix 3 tablespoon of sugar, 3 tablespoon of Sake, 2 tablespoon of Japanese Sweet rice Wine, and 3 tablespoon of Soy sauce. and mix them well
4, fly Onion, and then put beef to it
5, And then add potates, fly potatos quickly
6, Then, put water (some) and boil it
7, get rid of scum.
8, when potatos become soft, lets add the sauce we made at 3!
9, cook it over a low flame!
10, stop boiling, and leave it for a while (to make taste better)
11, finish :-)))

Soup in the Chinese style

2005-07-05T17:39:00.000+09:00

Soup is good for vegitables. So sometimes I cook soup. and its easy to cook.

Chinese style Soup!

1, cut onion, bacon, bean sprout, Chive
2, fly them, first onion, bacon, bean sprout, and Chive
3, add water about 500cc and boil it
4, then just season it with chinese seasoning

Pilaf

2005-07-04T16:48:00.000+09:00

Before, I introduced how to cook TOMATO pilaf, but i didnt show how to cool Pilaf. its almost the same how to cook Tomato pilaf or just pilaf. Its also easy to cook. every time, i only show you easy meals!! I am lazy person :(

Pilaf

1, cut bacon, onion, spinach (if you want, I think its good idea to add more ingredients)
2, fly them! first onion, then bacon
3, season it with salt and pepper strongly
4, when you boil the rice in a rice-cooker, add those flied ingredients and put stock cube of consomme
5, then, turn on the rice-cooker
6, Its easy!!

Tomato Soup

2005-06-30T12:49:00.000+09:00

Tomato Soup
Today, my shere-mate cooked Tomato soup! I like any suop. So, this week, I would like to show as many pictures of soup as possible. SO, first, Tomato soup!!!!

soup is easy to cook, and delicious, AND we can eat vegetables so much.

Tomato soup

cut potatos, carrots, onions, and Enoki Mushrooms, and bacons
fly these vegetables, first, onion, carrots, bacons, and mushrooms
and put cutted tomatos (1 or 2 tomatos) and fly them
when those ingredients are flied well, add water (500 ml, for 2 )
and stew
and put stock cubes of consomme
Then stew again
Finish:-))

Niratama

2005-06-29T12:48:00.000+09:00

Niratama
This is Our (Maiko and I) style of Niratama. Its easy cooking. Nira is Chive/Nira.
and Tama means Tamago(egg).

Niratama

First, cut Nira
and dissolve eggs (I think 2 or 3 eggs are enough)
and add some soy sauce and Japanese flavoring (called Ajinomoto including glutamate)
and mix them
put them in a plate
and bake it in an electric toaster. (10-15 minutes)
then, finish

Hiyashi-Tyuuka

2005-06-28T16:38:00.000+09:00

Hiyashi-Tyuuka
Today was hot day....i like sunny day...but it was too hot, so i was tired.
so Today, i made Hiyashi-Tyuuka. :-))

Hiyashi-Tyuuka

lets make Tamago-yaki (flied egg)
and cut cucumber, bacon.
and cut the Tamago-yaki (made in the process 1)
and boil noodles
after boil noodles, chill the noodles
Then, put noodles on a dish
on the noodles dish up with eggs, cucumber, and bacon
Finally, add soup of Hiyashi-tyuuka
Finish!

CheeseCake

2005-06-27T13:37:00.000+09:00

cheesecake
Is this picture look delicious, isnt it? This is baked cheese cake.
I thought making cakes is difficult....BUT it isnt!! I used rice cooker to make this.
It's easy!!

Baked Cheese Cake

put cream cheese (200g) into a bowl
and knead it until it becomes soft.
then, put sugar(80g)
dissolve 2 eggs and put it into the bowl gradually. (with mixing them)
and, put weak flour (27g; 3tablespoon)
and put fresh cream (200cc) into the bowl
(if you have lemon, extract juice from lemon and put some of them into it)
melt butter(20g) and put it into the bowl and mix them
Then, put them into a bowl of rice cooker
and push start button of the rice cooker

To bake cheese cake, it will take some hours. so you have to check the rice cooker sometimes.

Sumashi-ziru

2005-06-26T14:41:00.000+09:00

Sumashi-soup

Miso-soup is Japanese soup, but Sumashi-ziru(Sumashi-soup) is also Japanese-soup.
and its easy, if you have Ajinomoto.

Put water (500ml for 2) into a pot
and boit it
after that, put some soysauce and put a bit Ajinomoto
check the taste of soup, if it is good, put ingredients (this time I put leek and mashrooms)
then finish!!

It is good to eat with Unagi!!!

Unagi

2005-06-24T14:40:00.000+09:00

Unagi

Hi!! last night, I ate Unagi!! I have wanted to eat Unagi for a long time!! so i was very happy.
Unagi is Broiled Eel in English. The odor of Unagi makes me eat Much!!

BUT, when i was eating Unagi, a thin bone of Unagi stick with my throat!! so when i swallow whatever, it is painful for me... the thin bone is still in my throat...lol
I have to get rid of it soon.

when you eat fish, be careful!!! :-((

Minestrone

2005-06-23T10:51:00.000+09:00

Im sorry, yesterday I forgot to take a picture of the Minestrone. Minestrone is Itarian. You dont have to use olive oil (if you use olive oil, taste will be much better)!! so i will show how to cook Minestrone in easy way (my way).

Minestrone (for 2)

cut a half of onion, one tomato, eggaplant, carrot, potato, and bacon.
put some oil to a pot
then, add onion, bacon (in this order)
when onion and bacon are flied well, put carrot, potato, eggplant, and tomato
and fly
season them with salt and pepper.
when those ingredients are flied well, add water(600ml)
and boil over a moderate fire
put stock cube of comsomme and boil it again
when it is boiled well, put spaghetti or macaroni (if you want)
when spaghetti or macaroni are biled well....
Finish
Its better to sift grated cheese on the dish!!!

If you have enough time to cook and eat, please try this!!! this meal will make you happy! lol

Consomme Soup

2005-06-21T10:54:00.000+09:00

Soup
when you want to eat (or..have to eat) vegitables alot at the same time, I think soup is good. Chinese soup, Consomme soup, Miso-soup..and so on. soup is easy meal to eat vegetables. So, today i recommend Consomme Soup!:-))

Consomme Soup

first boil water.
cut cabbage, spinach, bacon, and some onion
after the water is biled, a stock cube of Consomme.
after that, put those vegitables and bacon!
after a while, finish!

What is a name of this in English ?

2005-06-20T08:56:00.000+09:00

The other day, I found a (maybe) useful site for Japanese! we can easily check how japnese food are called in English. (and if you are interested in Seattle in America, this site is very interesting for you.) This is my favorite website:-)))

http://www.junglecity.com/enjoy/food_english/japanese.htm
or
http://www.junglecity.com/

I had difficulty to explain Japanese unique food in English so many times. But this site will help me for sure from now on!

For example,

Mirin = Japanese Sweet Rice Wine or Sweet Cooking Rice Wine
Umeboshi = Pickled Plum

Yaki-Udon

2005-06-18T14:25:00.000+09:00

Hi! next meal is Yaki-udon. Im sorry, I forgot to take a picture of Yaki-Udon. But Yaki-Udon was my today's lunch. its very very easy to cook!! Yaki-Udon is fried-Udon in English, I guess. am I translating these cooking words into English correctly? sometimes im not sure...
anyway, its also delicious :-))

Yaki-Udon

cut vegitables (depends on your taste). I cut onion, bacon, and mashrooms(Shimegi).
then, fly these ingredients(cut in the process 1)
when the vegitables are flied well, add noodles of Udon
fly well
next, add sauce dip (Men-tuyu in Japanse)
and season it with salt and pepper.
finish :-)))

I have to find a name or explananions of Japnese unique seasoning!

Easy Small Dish

2005-06-17T14:16:00.000+09:00

Ohitashi
yesterday, my share-mate cooked dinner! and I learned a easy small dish.
so i will show you how to cook this. This is Ohitashi, it is very difficult to explain in English. so...anyway please see how to cook. I have to think a name of this dish in English.

Ohitashi

cut mushroom(Shimegi), eggplant, and spinach.
and dish them up
then Ponzu (I cant find a name of Ponzu, in English...) put alittle bit ginger on it.

Meuniere (munieru in Japanese)

2005-06-15T10:54:00.000+09:00

Sakana
last night, I cooked Meuniere of salmon. it's really really easy to cook because i bought a kit to cook meuniere. So all I had to do was just to sift powder on both side of salmon and fly.

so today i will show you how to make tartar sauce.

Tartar Sauce

first, mince an onion (3 tablespoon)
sift some sugar on the minced onion (to squeeze water)
and mix minced boiled egg(a half of egg), mayonnaise, papper, and minced onion.
finish!!!

Chicken Saute

2005-06-14T07:35:00.000+09:00

chicken saute
Good mornig. yesterday's meal was chicken saute and salad with onion and wakame and Natto!
this meal sounds healthy, doesnt it? I tried to use as many ingredients as possible because my friend was visitting my house at that time!! so I hope she enjoyed the meals.

chicken Saute

cut carrot and mushrooms to add them with chicken
lets fly carrot and mushrooms and season with pepper and salt.
after 3, put them on a dish
before fly chicken, season the chicken with pepper and salt on both sides.
then sift flour on the both sides of chicken!
and fly the chicken
fly both sides of chicken enough
after both sides are fried, add water 2 of tablespoon, and put the lid and wait for a few minutes
then maybe its good time to eat! (taste it:-))

Oyako-don

2005-06-12T15:47:00.000+09:00

Oyako-don
Here is Oyako-don, and Miso-soup(with spinach and wakame(soft seaweed). Do you know Oyako-don? this is one of Japanese deshes?? Don means Donburi(big bowl). Oyako-don = a big bowl of rice toppes with soft scrambled eggs and chicken. Oyako means parent and child in Japanese. It is because eggs and chcken is a parent and child. SO, Oyako-don!!

Oyako-don (for 1)

First, cut a forth onion, and chicken (and i add spinach this time)
then fly in this order, onion, chicken
and add soy source, Mirin, and water (not so much)
and boil it a little bit (and then put spinach)
After that, put dissolved 2 egges to 4
and boil it until the eggs are stiff.
when you think egges are okay to eat, then put it on rice!
Finish:-))

I had better explain what is Mirin in English later!

Curry with alot vegetables

2005-06-11T15:46:00.000+09:00

curry

yesterday, when I opened my refrigerator, a lot of vegetables were there...so I have to use them as soon as possible :-(( so I cooked Curry with alot of vegetables!

maybe you know how to cook curry?
as i said the other day on my blog, putting tomato makes curry so mild. so please try it someday!!

today I used carrots, onion, spinach, eggplant.
I think its healthy!! and it was good taste (i think.)

and one of my friends(Miho) advised me to put a slice of cheese on rice, and put curry on the cheese!! sounds delicious!! but I forgot to buy slices of cheese, so i couldnt try this time. I will try next time!! :-)) thank you for your advice, Miho!

Tarako Pasta

2005-06-10T12:42:00.000+09:00

Tarako Pasta

Here is new easy cooking recepi:-)) Tara is cod, and Tarako is cod roe. Tarako is expensive...but I think a small bottle of cod roe is cheaper! so when you buy a bottle of cod roe or raw cod roe, please try this recepi.

Tarako Pasta (for 2)

boil spaghetti (for two)
after 1, put the spaghetti into a bowl
and Mix the spaghetti with olive oil (2 tablespoon), soy sauce (2 teaspoon), and some pepper And with Tarako :-)
finally dish up that and sift nori on that.

easy, easy, and easy!! :-)))

Milk Pudding (and Curry rice)

2005-06-07T14:08:00.000+09:00

Milk Pudding (and Curry)
Last night, I ate delicious desert!! It is Milk Pudding. (I didnt cook...but I learned how to cook:-)
easy and easy to cook, but delicious!
Also, the Curry rice was great! next time you cook curry rice, please use tomato! Tomate makes curry rice more mild!

Milk Pudding

Milk (300cc) and Sugar(50g) and some gelatin
mix them!
and put a little vanilla flavoring in it
put it to a cup
and the cup to a refrigerator.
leave it until stiff
Finish!

Cha-han

2005-06-06T14:13:00.000+09:00

Chinese fried rice
This is Chinese fried rice. this picture is not clear..sorry. In Japanese, this is Cha-han. Its very common, and easy meal. since I started to lilve separating my parents, I really often cook cha-han. maybe you too? because its easy to cook. If you can cook this, you can arrange cha-han.

Unique Meal please!!!

2005-06-05T13:12:00.000+09:00

Hi! Are you having nice weekend?
Im lazy...so recently i havent cooked good enough meal to show you! I will do this week.

and I want to cook very unfamiliar meals for Japanese, or even in Japan, there are many different meals from place to place. so I want to have recipes of Unique meal from you!! If you know some, please comment on here.
I will ask my mother what are local dishes of Aich-prefecture!!

Cloudy Friday

2005-06-03T12:44:00.000+09:00

today, its cloud!! and windy. yesterday is kind of hot and no wind..I miss that kind of weather.
maybe Tuyu (rainy season) is coming soon...do you like rainy season?

But today is Friday! I will go out with friends tonight! it will be fun.
anyway, Have a nice weekend:-)

Tomato and shrimp Spaghetti

2005-06-01T13:01:00.000+09:00

Tomato pasta
today's lunch was also cooked by using tomato!! I want to show you how to cook this, but....today Maiko (my room-mate) cooked this, so i will ask her how to cook later! but this is so delicoius. And I guess it's easy to cook.
do you cook lunch-box by your self? if you have good menu for lunch box, please please tell me!

Tomato Pilaf

2005-05-31T10:00:00.000+09:00

Tomato rice
today's lunch!! can you see what this is? This is Tomato pilaf***I cooked this by myself. this is also easy to cook!! and delicious (at least, I think delicious)

Tomato Pilaf(for 2)

lets mince (a forth of) onion, carrot.
let's cut tomato (I used a can of Tomato)
then, fly 1 and 2, in this order...onion, carrot, and tomato
when you can fly these well, lets season with salt and pepper. (*this time, you should season deeply)
then lets wash rice (is this correct expression?)
then, put washed rice and fried ingredients and one stock cube of consomme.
and boil these in a rice-cooker!

very easy, isnt it? even I cooked well, so you can cook well too with no doubt:-))

Nice day

2005-05-30T14:43:00.001+09:00

Nice day
This picture is not meal!! flowers!! I took this picture last saturday. it was very warm, no wind. it was so comfortable day. just i wanted to tell this:-) see you

Lunch Box

2005-05-30T14:43:00.000+09:00

Soboro Gohan
how is this picture?? good color, isnt it? this is Soboro-gohan. If you are Japanese, you know this for sure! but i wanted to explain this meal in english..but i coulndt find the name in English. sorry. But it is called Soboro-gohan (soboro rice)

its very easy to cook this:-))

boil the rice in a rice-cooker.
then, dissolve egg and fry it with sugar, soy sauce, and some milk (each quantities of these is your taste!
after this, lets put 2 somewhere (maybe on a dish), and Lets fly ground meat(Hikiniku in Japanese) with sugar, soy sauce, and Mirin (what do you say Mirin in English??)
finally, put 2 and 3 on the rice! like this picture

when I go abroad next year, can I buy these Japanese flavorings? Im afraid...

Noodles Soup

2005-05-28T13:45:00.000+09:00

Local noodle soup
Yesterday, I ate nooles soup (ra-men). Have you heard of Sugakiya ra-men?? if you know, you are from Tokai area, i guess. Because Sugakiya ra-men is sold only in Tokai area. the taste is very good. Sugakiya ra-men is Japense style Tonkotu ra-men. If you like ra-men, please eat this ra-men someday!!

Breakfast

2005-05-27T20:06:00.000+09:00

Hi, how are you? its friday night:-))))
by the way, what do you eat as breakfast?? when i lived in a dorm, i often missed breakfast! because breakfast time at cafetteria is 7:00a.m.-8:00a.m. on weekdays. i couldnt get up to eat...but since i started to live at an apartment, almost everyday i eat breakfast! its big progress, isnt it? usually, i eat a slice of toast, putting a dab of butter and granulateed sugar on it. It is very sweet. oh, and i eat Banana. Its good to have enough time to eat breakfast!!

Rissoto and Chicken

2005-05-25T13:30:00.000+09:00

Rissoto and Chicken
yesterday, I ate Rissoto(left in the picture), chicken(right), salad(center), and yoghurt(right above). all dishes were so delicious!! and surprigingly, it didnt take long time to cook all dishes :-))

How to cook cheese rissoto** (for about....2-4 people, actually Maiko and I eat alot! lol)

First, lets cut ingredients!!! carrot(a third one one carrot) onion(a forth) napa cabbage=Hakusai(proper quantity) mushroom?KINOKO(proper quantity)
Then, lets fly the ingredients
when those are flied well, let's put rice to those ingredients. (yesterday, we used rice which we left for 2 days!! so color of the rice was kind of...yellow...but it was ok afterall)
Then, put water (about 400cc) to it. and lets put stock cube of consomme.
and stew for a while...(until rice become tender)
If you think it is good time to put some milk to it, lets do it!
stew again, and season it with salt and pepper.
maybe it's time to eat!

I think I have to learn how to explain a process of cooking! it is so difficult:-((

I hope you can understand this recipe.

Monday...

2005-05-23T19:12:00.000+09:00

Miho and Tomoko, Thank you for ur replies!
antually, I'm not good at cooking!!!:-(( But I love eating sweets. my cooking teacher is my share-mate, Maiko!! (at least I think so). Maiko is really good at cooking. Im happy becasue i can eat delicious dishes everyday, thaks to Maiko.
everytime we eat dinner, we eat yoghurt! we are growing yoghurt. that yoghurt make more yoghurt autmatically if you add milk to yoghurt. so we can eat that everyday. one day with apricot jam, another day with honey, and with banana, with raisin...eating yoghurt is my custom :-)

My Blog*

2005-05-19T17:14:00.000+09:00

Today is the first day of this blog!! In here, I want to talk about my everyday-life, like diary. Also! I wanna make this blog like..recipe site to improve my cooking ability! I will do my best :-))