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❤

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:★★★★★

Cous Cous Lunch Party!

I had been silent for my blog recetly since Iwas really busy. No. Just needed enough time to sleep. :P

Still I am cooking everyday even I go to work on weekdays and shot photos a lot. Especially, after Japan earthquake happened on March 9, I really realized that the importance of cooking and having meals with my family everyday. Anyway, I just excuse for myself. Let's trace our meals.

On Feb 27, my dear friends family came to our place. They have a toddler and a baby so I had very colourful and something exciting table setting. Plus feel them "Spring has come!"

For Starters

Cheese, Seafood Crostini, Hamon Serano and marinated scallop

Lemon Chicken Tajin

Besides chicken breast, lemon and prune, I braised chicken with lotus roots and red radish.

Serve with Citrus Salad and Couscous with green leaves.

For adults, added "Harissa sauce."

I'm really into "Harissa sauce" lately. Very hot and spicy but once you eat, you want to drizzle anything such as sunny-side up egg,roast pork etc.etc.

Here's the recipe. Very easy if only you could gather these spices.

"Harissa Sauce"

-1 teaspoon Paprica Powder

-1 teaspoon Cumin Powder

-1 teaspoon Corriander Powder

-2 teaspoon Caienne Pepper Powder

-2 cloves garlic grated

-1/4 cup olive oils

-1/2 teaspoon salt

Mix well all ingredients together. Can be stored in the fridge for 1~2 months.

Goya Champuru~Stir fried bitter melon~

We stayed at a serviced apartment so that I was able to cook. As for the first two days, the typhoon attacked Miyako-jima, we had to stay at a hotel.

At that time, I cooked "Goya Champuru" .

Goya Champuru is one of the typical Okinawa food.

Sliced goya and season salt and squeese them and drain from water. Stir Goya, Tofu(bean curd), Spam(lunchon meat) and any vegetables you like plus scrambled egg. Season S&P, a little bit soy sauce and Katsuo bushi (dried bonito flakes). That's all. Easy, healthy and yummy:)

Found youtube video which helps you how to make "goya champuru"in detail.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp-a5y8rY28&feature=player_embedded

For your reference.

Tebichi Soba（noodles w/braised pettitoes)

Had belated summer vacation last week. We went to Miyako-jima where is southern island in Okinawa, Japan.

They have their own food culture. The photo above is called "Tebichi-soba"which is a sort of Udon(but slightly different from it)and "Tebichi" means pettitoes.

The soup is made up of Katsuo(bonito) broth called "Dashi". Very tasty.

During the trip, Taro had this everyday! Yes, everyday. I was wondering why he never fed up with it. He really loves both noodle and soup. (he never ate tebichi at all.)

This noodle would be the first reminiscence about his food trip. ;)

Jungle Plate~Grilled Ram~

It took less than 30 minutes for us to finish eating this plate.

Each meal had different taste but yoghurt sauce made them complete in harmony.

Besides the sauce, kaori spice for ram is also the key to be a fantastic jungle plate. ;)

Tonight Menu

-Grilled ram with yoghurt sauce

-sauteed mushroom and eggplant

-potato cake with vegetable ragu sauce

-green salad

~yoghurt sauce~ I guess it's famous for Turkish food.

-Add grated garlic and one teaspoon of salt in the yoghurt and mix together.

~kaori spice~

all spice, paprika, fennel seed, coriander seed and cumin seed -all are powder type.

(the amount of spice are up to you, but cumin seed should be the main taste. )

Beef stroganoff

Beef Stroganoff!!!

Orange(Amanatsu Citrus) Salad

Sometimes I want to make something more elaborate and rich meal. I mean "rich" is both the taste and the budget to get ingredients. Beef stroganoff is one kind of Russian food. Uses lots of butter and tender beef. It is worth using Wagyu(Japanese beef) for it.

At first, Taro started eating French fries first. After that he spontaneously tried having beef stroganoff. And he found out it was super yummy. He devoured it!

Taro's rate: ★★★★★

For relish, I made orange salad. Just normal salad. Olive oil, S&P, sliced onion and Italian Parsley. No need to add any vinegar since citrus has sour taste. :D If you like chilli taste, just add small cut chilli.

Pierogi~Polish food~

Made "Pierogi" from scratch. Pierogi is one of famous dish in Poland. My follower, ef.em told me how to make it.

Am not sure if this is a proper "pierogi", but we really enjoyed the taste. Very beautiful. Thanks ef.em!

It is like a huge dumpling/ravioli. In inside, there has mushed potatoes, cottage cheese, braised chopped onion, and butter and fresh cream a little bit.

Super high calorie food, indeed.

Topped with sour cream. The sour taste drives us to eat them more. ;P

Bacon+potatoes+sour cream+ melted butter: necessarily Destiny!

Smoked salmon, mushroom, rockets and onion salad. Lemon juice+olive oil+ S&P for dressing.

We love this simple dressing salad.

Amazing tomatoes, "Amela".

Taro's rate:★★

He had a Pierogi a little. If he had not had pumkin buns before dinner, he would have had it more .... But I am convinced that he likes the taste. ;)