Ring Shaped Pasta

For Sunday lunch, we woke up early and made ring shaped pasta from scratch. Taro also helped me and enjoyed making it.

This is what we made! If you get rid of Parmigiano Leggiano Cheese, it would become "Vegan Pasta". Very healthy.

For Main dish, Pork fillet sautee with fig salad. A little bit bitter rocket, sweeten and sour fig are matching with Rosemary satee pork fillet. If you have varsamico vineger, drizzle them on it. Much more tasty.....

Taro's rate:★★★★

He ate pasta only.

Seafood Lasagna Night

Learnt it at Kotkotopasta. White sauce and shrimp and flatfish in it. Very creamy and light taste compared to lagu sauce lasagna.

Taro's rate:★★★★★(both lasagna and garlic toast)

~Quick and Easy Toasted bread with garlic~

Recently I am into garlic toast. This recipe is very easy and light taste.

Toast baguette and rub them with raw garlic. Sprinkle sea salt and drizzle extra vergine olive oil on it. Eat hot!

Orecchiette with brassica(flower sprout) sauce

Learnt at Kotokotopasta. It is quite tough to make "orecchiette" shape using a knife. I am really bad at making pasta using any tools except a pasta machine.

Have to make it and review again.....

However, my family didn't realise what genuine orecchiette is so they enjoyed the meal. :P

For salad, made chicken and tomato salad with Shiso herbs. I love Shiso herbs very much. It is kind of a gently basil leaf. The smell tells us summer has come.

Taro'srate:★★★★（didn't eat brassica.)

Preserved Salted Mushrooms

Diced Enoki, Shitake, Elingi, Shimeji and Maitake Mushrooms. Meausure the gross weight.

Boil 20 secs for each mushroom.

Put boiled mushrooms in the preserved bottle. Add 10%salt of the gross weight. Mix together.
It can be stored in a fridge for 1 month.


Tonight, made salad using this salty mushroom. Mushrooms has enough salty so you do not need to season. Oil and Lemon juice would be fine. The white pieces are cottage cheese.

The main dish was Bongore Rosso.

Taro's rate: ★★★★★（Spaghetti)

The day after Japan Earthquake

We all are safe& Fine!

When quake happened, I was having meeting in progress at Kitasenju(northan Tokyo).

All commute were stop, so I had to go home by walk for 15km in high-heels!!! It took 5 hours. Never walked such a long distance before.Got really worn out.

Jun was at his office and he picked Taro up as soon as the quake stop.

In Tokyo, we didn't damaged so much, but Tohoku area has been really serious.

Only I can do is to pray and hope for Japan and try to spend time as usual as much as I can especially for Taro:)

Squid Shaped Pasta (review)

I made it finally! Look at the beautiful shape! Yeah!

Which is the squid or pasta?

Actually my uncle didn't realised he ate pasta!

(He thought he ate only squids. Hahaha!)

For relish, my favourite Buntan Salad.

I do not like cleaning squids as my eyes meet squid's eye while cleaning. Very scary. However, to enjoy the taste fantastic squids, I am able to finish clean up them. :)

Taro's rate:★★★★★

Eat while crying

Taro went home while crying. Jun told me that on the way to the home from his nursery school, he wanted to keep watching trains at the platform. But Jun didn't allow him and let him go home directly. It was so intolerable for him, so kept crying crying crying.....even while eating pasta!

The pasta he ate was "Tajarin alla carbonara" I made at the Italian cooking class. This pasta is super crazy fatty. 8 eggs yolk in the pasta and 4 eggs for the sauce.

Huhhhhh. This should be eaten for very special occasion only. Of course yummy though.

Minestorone Soup with Tiny Pasta

Learnt it at Kotokoto Pasta. My teacher always teaches something new!

This soup is based on white kidney beans paste, so the taste is quite thick and rich. But very healthy. :)

Actually my teacher's husband who is Italian lost his weight for having this soup several times a week.

He proved that even Italian food has a possibility for slimming diet. Wow.

The short pasta we made tastes like "Suiton" in Japanese food. Yes, same texture as Suiton.

You can add snapped spaghetti instead.

Ossobuco

First tried to make Braised Ossobuco with tomato sauce.

Very easy. Just takes a certain time little bit.

Here is a brief procedure to make "Osso Buco". FYR.

Chopped celery, carrot, onion. Put them into a thick large pan, pour olive oil (3table spoon) fried with low heat until enough softened perhaps more than 10minutes. After that add whole tomato.( I used 2 tomato cans.)
This is "osso Buco". the centre in the bone called marrow. That is super yummy.

I got this meat at this shop. ("ハイ食材室”)

I quite often use this internet shop. You can get lam meat, even foie gras!!

Season S&P, flour them and fried them on a fried pan until golden brown colour.

Pour red wine.(200cc)

Place the meat and wine into the large pan. simmer more than 1 hour. Season salt and pepper.

Add chooped Italian parsley, lemon skin(non-waxed) and garlic and simmer 10 minutes.

Then, serve!!!

Martelli～Special Spagehetti!～

I always buy "DeCheco" or "Barilla" Spaghetti, but this time I got this!

Martelli 500g 630 yen

OMG! It costs nearly double compared to barilla!(it costs 650yen for 1kg!)

But I am 100% sure that Martelli is super delicious spaghetti ever.

Crab Tomato sauce Pasta

YUMMY INDEED!!!

Squid Shaped Pasta

The shape looks like squid and the sauce was squid ink. This is for squid lovers.

Squid and Octpus paste on the slice of bread.

Learnt it from Kotokoto Pasta. My teacher is always teaching something new and I am able to learn fresh and new skill.

Surprisingly, Taro ate this black colour sauce pasta! Plus he was willing to eat the squid! they are not too solid any more for him.

Taro's rate:★★★★★

Porchini Risotto & Triangle Taro-san

Learnet it at Kotokotopasta. Since I hardly had made risotto before, this was the great time to learn how to make it in detail. Next year, I will try to make risotto more often. :)

Lately, Taro is really into creating a "triangle" using his all body. At first he started to make it by using his finger, or folding some brochure in half.
He suddenly shouts out " It's time to create a triangle!" and then creates triangles.

Not only creating triangles but also he is good at finding triangles in anywhere.

He calls himself "I am a triangle hunter".:P

Pizza!!!

He is care for "Kinokuniya Squared Pizza" but, tonight he figured out that mummy's pizza is the best ever.

Sausage, Tuna, Shrimp, Jamón Ibérico,plenty of cheese and rich crust.....All of them are his favourite.He is really lucky to have a great mom.

.....after the dinner,I broke a pizza stone unfortunately....... Sigh.....

Pear and Parmigiano Moouse

Pear!!!

Last year, I made this sweets and posted.

Time really flies. Managed to continue blogging for a year.

Despite the high calories, I cannot stop making this moouse when pears are on season.

Lunch with my friends

Early Christmas Party at home

Porcini Lavioli

Yellow Cauliflower and green salad

Cauliflower Lasgna

Saute Chicken with Maitake mushroom sauce

Revised Italian dish at Kotokotopasta. Though it was quite difficult to make lavioli shape, this time so far so good ;)

.Taro might realised that Santa would bring some gift that he wants. He is very looking forward to it:)

Weekday Cooking

Porcini lagu sauce pasta

Taro gets hungry seriously when he came home!!

I always keep several fresh pasta and sauce in the freezer in case I prepare for dinner right away especially for weekdays. Just boil water and reheat the sauce. Easy. Takes less than 10 minutes.

While boiling water, make some salad. Shred carrot and coriander.

Pasta and Salad. It is enough for satisfying our stomach.

Scilatelli di Campagna

This is the new solution to consume a huge "Pak Choy（白菜）" ! Learnt at kotokotopasta. For Pak choy, we usually eat as "hot pot". I was looking for another recipe.

Was surprised that it is very matching with tomato lagu sauce.

This pasta is called "Scilatelli"which shape is similar to macaroni and torofie. Make this shape using spaghetti! Interesting.

One day at the Ginkgo street

Cauliflower Lasagna

Made Lasagana from scratch. I have learnt some kinds of lasagna, but this one is the best taste ever! plus very healthy!

I used to disdain for cauliflower, but I have to say sorry for them. Cauliflower, you are really tasty, soft and creamy. You are the great vegetable!

Braise cauliflower until enough soft, season S&P and crush them using a spatula. Add white sauce. Layer lasagna, cauliflower cream and Parmigiano Leggiano.

Even if you cannot make lasgna from scratch, it is worth trying to make this sauce for your pasta.

Taro had never tasted cualiflower before, but he ate this lasagna! :)

Another dish was Saute chicken thigh with Maitake mushroom. As for the chicken thigh, Cut bite-sized pieces, Season S&P, and dredge them in flour. And then, saute as you usually do.

For mushrooms, they would have a role as a sauce so that saute them in advance. If you have this herb mix, add 1teaspoon. Then the taste would become more sharp and spicy.