Red Currants Jam

It is a great idea to make fruits jam to keep myself calm in such an emergency. The smell of red currants are fulfilled with my kitchen and I am able to remain calm.

And the colour of jam are very attracts me and feel happy.

Patissier Taro

This is my dearest son, Taro's first work.

He made the smiley face. :)

Feeling the dough

Baked bread for ages. Then Taro helped me!

"I can help my mom!"

Chilli Oil with Deep fried Garlic and Onion~辣油~

Since I got LOADS of garlic, Jun made original Chili Oil.

In Japan, The chili oil is booming out now. Many makers create original chili oil and some of the goods are out of stock.

Jun is one of the big fans of chili oil.

Unfortunately he is eager for getting the one(Momoya's chili oil), they are always out of stock.

Finally he came up with the idea that he makes original chili oil!

Besides fried garlic and onion,he added dried shrimp, green onion, white sesami and so on.

Various ingredients make it rich and extremely satisfying.

Warning!! It's very dangerous !! We can refill our plate a lot!

Later on, I uproad how to make it.

Ginger Syrup

Referred to "Hobo-nichi" sight.

Jun cooked it from the beginning to the end!

Ingredients

Plus 800g Beet sugar and Water(500cc or some more)

Simmer for about 1 hour. ( add lemon juice if you like)

Skim the scum from the water.

Taking out of sliced gingers and dried for 3 hours at the outside.

This is a beautiful golden brown ginger syrup!!

When gingers become enough semi-dried, sprinkle sugar.

This is also beautiful.

Made Ginger-ale with gas water and the syrup.

Yummmmmm!!

Frozen Pineapple

Feel cold, Feel Taro-chan :P

(Despite it's super cold, he still wants to eat them with crying.)

Playing With Peas

We are staying at home all day long. When I was shelling peas, Taro tried to imitate my action.

He is my little cooking helper :)

MARFUGA has come!!!

I just got it today. This is our basic & essential olive oil, MARFUGA comes from Italy. Every this season, the oil is delivered to us. I am looking forward to tasting this 2009 fresh olive oil.

It costs 23,625 yen for 5 litre. Though you might think it's super expensive, this is enough worth buying it. Very spicy but fruity aroma.

I'll bet that you've never met such an adorable olive oil. It's fresh olive juice indeed!!!

It is matching for not only Italian food, but also Japanese food!! Yes, it's true.

Soy sauce and Olive oil are the best couple rather than Sesami oil.

Yes, I am 100 % sure that if you could use this magical oil, you would be a chef right now.

In Japan, you can get it from here.

Am not sure whether people living in other countries can get it or not. if you have a chance to visit Umbria, Italy, you must check it out. :)

From my small kitchen

Before starting my blog, I am going to show you my kitchen.
Most of the time, I spent here and focus on cooking everyday.
You may be surprised when you know my all meals are created in the such a shabby and small kitchen. Probably my kitchen space is only 16 square meter or something.
Yes, it's too small and very inconvenient, however, in a sense, this is a very compact kitchen. No need to move a lot:-P
Of course, I wish I could have new and bigger kitchen in the future but so far I am managing to cook in there and loving my kitchen anyway.

This blog is for recording our daily meals and practising my English writing.
When you find some mistakes I made, please feel free to correct them. I will revise them as soon as possible!

Thanks!