Simmered Fuki(butterbur stem)

This is called "Fuki" which is very common spring herb in Japan. Simmered with Dashi broth.

A little bit bitter, but Taro liked it.

Garlic chives and Mizuna Naml

Season with sesame oil, glated garlic and S&P

Minutes Pickles with Chinese pepper

Cut various kinds of vegetables into bite size, salted and soften them by squeesing(we call it Shio Momi. Salted and squeese)

Marinated sugar, rice vineger and Chinese pepper. It is very helpful only if you make "Shio-momi" vegetables and keep it in a fridge. It is kind of preservative food.

Minced pork and cabbage cutlets

Itadakimasu!

Taro's rate:★★★

（He didn't eat Naml at all.)

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!

Weekday night at the third week of May

flat fish and tomato sauce spaghetti

steamed brooccoli and tomato with varsamico sauce.

Taro's rate:★★★★

Rum Stew, garlic toast and green salad

Taro's rate:★★★

He didn't eat ram meat.　

Braised rum and potato with rosemary

Corn and cucumber salad

Taro's rate:★★

(corn salad ★★★★★）

This salad is very easy and quick, kids might be willing to eat them.

Mix Corn, Sliced (0.5cm) cucumber(salted and soften them by squeesing), petit tomatos, Italian parsley, mayonnaise and add a little bit yoghurt together. Season with S&P and paprika powder. That's all!

Tofu with zha cai pickles

This Tofu sauce is amazingly beautiful. Chopped cucumber, green papper,zha cai pickles, ginger, green onion, Myoga herb and Shiso herb. Drizzle sesame oil and soy sauce on Tofu.

If only you have food processor, it takes only 3 minutes to make it.

Taro's rate:★

He didn't try Tofu at all. (He's into fried dumpling....)

After dinner, we had watermelon. Summer has come!

Weekday night at the second week of May.

Sautee Sawara fish with butter soy sauce.

Korean BBQ beef and vegetable

Tuna, corn, cheese and mayyonaise on Naan bread
Taro's favourite one.

Miso Rahmen noodle

I would like to praise for myself on making dinner everyday! Good girl, Kaori:)

Simmered mackerel in Miso sauce

Good morning from Cebu.

My blog has been silent for a long time...... but I am going to look back to our meal last month!

This night's menu

Mackerel in Miso sauce with shreded ginger.

Bloccoli salad with tiny fish Tsukudani.

Potato and seaweed Miso-soup

Brown rice

Taro's rate:★★★★★

He loves the miso soup.Especially Wakame seaweed.

He's dying for raining since he wants to wear rain coat and rain boots.

Happy.

He LOVES raining anyway.

青椒肉絲Stir-fried shredded pork,green pepper and bamboo

A dinner on weekdays. Stir fried green and red papper, pork and bamboo. Seasoned oyster sauce and soy sauce.

Only if you cut all ingredients shredded, you can make it within 10 minutes.

Next morning, the leftover of dinner turn into sandwich. :) Jun and Taro had them for breakfast. I brought them for lunch time.

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.)

Avocado Cheese Humburger!

Got ready!


WOW!!

Avocado, Tomato, Cheese and Humburg with onion and Lettuce.

What a Gorgeous humburger!

Of course, fried potato and sweet potato are ready too.

Taro's rate:★★★★★

Jun's rate:★★★★★

This is the perfect dinner....!

On weekday night

My father's friend sent us Fresh bamboo from Kagoshima. Made Takenoko-rice, and Wakatake-ni which are typical Japanese Bamboo dish.

Jun made Tarako Spaghetti for us!

I made tomato salad.

Typical traditional Japanese food

During weekdays, I do not have much time to make dinner. Taro went home at around 6 o'clock,and I came home around 6:30. They get hungry so I always rush into home and make something quickly. While I got train, I compose everyday meals and image the procedure. Quite tough to manage it everyday.

Challenging Night

Mango and Banana Salad with Shiso herb, Sliced onion and Chilli pepper.
Sweets, sour and a little bit hot. Very challenging salad. -result- Yumm!! especially eating with Chicken Tajin!

This is also challenging Tajin. Added Fresh Bamboo from Kagoshima. Must add "Alissa Sauce".

German Night

Made "sauerkraut" and simmered with sausage.

Taro was excited at the sausage with bone!

Salty mushroom cream soup.

Got the bread at "PAUL" in Kitasenju.Love sausage❤

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)

麻婆豆腐

Taro cannot eat spicy chilli food, so this cannot call "麻婆豆腐”though. Added Jew's‐ear mushroom ..( this is the leftover of noodle salad. :P)

Exotic Night

Tonight's menu

Noodle Salad, Deep Fried Spring Roll and Curry coconuts soup

Jew's‐ear mushroom, cucumber and some herbs in there.



Grated Yamato-imo, Shiso herb, and shrimp in it.

Sprinkle S&P. Easy, yummy and healthy!

Taro's rate:★★★★★

Karaage (deep freid chicken) Dinner

Deep fried chicken and Lotus roots.
Add Five spice powder（五香粉）-star anise, cloves, cinnamon, huajiao(Sichuan pepper) and ground fennel seeds- is the key of tasty.

He loves cucmber these days.

Humburg Steak w/mushroom suace+Potato Salad

We all agree that this humburg steak is the best taste ever and potato salad is very matching with it. :D

Miso Ragu Sauce UDON

I've got a Digital SLR Camera! See the high quality photos! Humm. Looks yummy.....

Stir fried minced pork, chopperd garlic and ginger, diced eggplants and green pepper.

Season with sweet soy bean paste, oyster sauce and Doubanjang.

Taro's rate:★★★★★(full mark!)