Tuesday, 9 August 2011

Easy & Tasty Marmalade Chicken Recipe


Today's dinner

Menu
*Marmalade Chicken
*Eggplant miso soup
*Tofu & Watercress salad
*White rice







Marmalade Chicken Recipe serves 2








Ingredients
*Chicken Thigh 200g
*Soya sauce 2 table spoons
*Marmalade jam 2 table spoons


Instructions
1. Cut the chicken into eatable sizes, marinate it with soya sauce and marmalade jam. Leave them for 5 to 10 mins.

2. Cook them in a pan/pot.



You might find it weird to marinate chicken with marmalade jam and soya sauce.
But trust me, marmalade jam goes very well with soya sauce!

Monday, 8 August 2011

Tofu & Radish Salad


Today's dinner



With Teriyaki chicken, we also had Tofu & Radish salad.

This salad is easy to make, tastes delicious and looks very pretty.





Ingredients

*Mini cherry tomatoes 4
*Silken tofu 1/2
*Watercress (Just to put some on top)
*Radish 3cm
*Your favourite salad dressings (I mixed pickled plum dressing with mayonnaise. I loved it!)




Instructions


1. Shave off the Radish skin. Cut it into thin/long bits. Leave them in some water + 1 table spoon of salts for a while.
2. Cut the tofu into small squares, tomatoes into half.
3. Take out the radish out off the salted water, wash the salts off. Put all the veggies on a plate/bowl. Place watercress on top. Eat with your favouriate salad dressings.

Very Easy & Tasty Teriyaki Chicken Recipe



Today's dinner






Menu

*Teriyaki chicken
*Egg plants miso soup
*Tofu & Radish salad
*Devil's tongue (Konnyaku) nimono
*White rice







Recipe for Teriyaki chicken

Serves 2





Ingredients

*Chicken thigh 200g
*Soya sauce 4 table spoons
*Mirin 3 table spoons
*Minced garlic 1 tea spoon


Instructions

1. Cut the chicken into small pieces, put all the ingredients into a bowl. Marinate the chicken for 5 to 10 mins.
(Alternatively, you can marinate the chicken in the morning and cook it for lunch or dinner)

2. Heat up a pan, cook the chicken together with the sauce.







Sunday, 7 August 2011

Hayashi rice

Today's lunch

Hayashi rice


Hayashi rice is a very tasty dish.
It looks similar to Japanese curry, but it tastes completely different.
It tastes like... butter chicken without spices,
Japanese cream stew without cream.
It's sweet.
Once you have a sip, you won't be able to stop yourself.
It is a dangerous dish, indeed.

It's worth trying!






It is not really a recipe...

Ingredients
*Box of Hayashi rice blocks
*Minced/thin sliced pork 300g
*Onion 1


Hayashi rice blocks are similar to Japanese curry blocks.
You can get it from Asian groceries.


Instructions

1. Cut the onion into thin slices.
2. Heat up a pot with some oil. Cook the pork and onion.
3. Add 500ml of water. Bring it to boil.
4. Take out scums.
5. Once onions become soft, add half of the Hayashi rice blocks. Cook for another 10 mins.

Ready to serve!







I love Hayashi rice.
I had it with some pickled cabbage!
Yum.

Saturday, 6 August 2011

Miss Marples @ Mt. Dandenong




Few months back in April,
I went to Mt. Dandenong with my housemates.








There was a place where we could see a lot of parrots
and feed them from our hands.


We went there on weekends (I don't remember if that was sat or sun)
so there were really a lot of people.



By the time we got there, many people had already fed the parrots.
So not many parrots were interested in my food...



As you can see from the picture above, I managed to feed one!
It took us so long to get this picture!



There were so many other people standing still,
just like trees with birds' food on their hands...
they looked so desperate for parrots to eat their food!

It was quite funny.








Afterwards,
we went to Miss Marples's Tea House for lunch
(It's a famous cafe in Mt. Dandenong).




This cafe is so popular that
you have to queue up for a very long time
(2-3 hours!!) just to get a seat.

Plus, it closes very early,
so you must get there early in the morning
if you want to have lunch there.




Why is this cafe so popular?

One of the reasons is that
the cafe's name "Miss Marple" is taken from
a fictional character in Agatha Christie's novels.

They have related pictures on the cafe's walls.
Its interior is pretty.




We ordered...

Garlic bread



Today's Soup





Sandwiches (This was very yummy)





Meat pie
(I don't usually like meat pies but this was not bad)




Scones





I think, scones are the best in this cafe.
They are very soft just like freshly baked bread.




Well, the cafe is pretty, the food is quite good.
But better be careful.
Their service is bad.
Well, at least I found it very rude and unpleasant.



They don't smile at all.
We ordered quite a lot
but they were not happy.
They wanted us to order more!
They gave us wrong change.
(I guess this was by an accident)

Anyway,

If interested, this is their website:
Good Food VS Bad Service. It might be worth trying.

Back in Melbourne. Luxurious breakie?


Few days after I came back to Melbourne,
our fridge stopped working properly.


A small fan inside of the freezer stopped running.

Everything in the freezer started to melt...
so, we had to cook everything.
Chicken, fish, pork...
all the meat we kept in our freezer.

So our breakfast became rather luxurious!



*Rafutei (Okinawan pork belly dish)
*Grilled Hokke fish
*Mushroom soup
*Boiled cabbage with shaved bonitos
*White rice



Rafutei recipe is here




We went to see a new fridge,
but it turned out that
the fan in the freezer was just frozen and could not move.

After breaking out all the ice,
the freezer started working again!


Thank you Damien for all the hard work!

Thank you Saori for coming to our house
to help us finish our food.



The below picture is a souvenir from my mom.
A set of the Little Prince dishes.
Thank you mom



Wednesday, 3 August 2011

The Lovemarks company


I completed my 3 month-internship at Saatchi & Saatchi Fallon Tokyo.

I really enjoyed my time there. Saatchi is a really good company.
It is the lovemarks company.

Saatchi gives its clients' brands "lovemarks" and
people will love their brands beyond reasons!

Saatchi can do such things because Saatchi is the Lovemarks company.


I love Saatchi beyond reasons.
It must be the power of lovemarks...

People at Saatchi were (and still are) very nice as well.
They are kind, helpful, friendly and caring.

I think when the company is good, it attracts such nice people.

I hope I can work with them again in near future.


Thank you very very much for having me for 3 months.
Thank you for all the good time and lovely gifts.
I will treasure them.
I love you all