Halloween☆cream puff

Pumplin cream puff!




not only the shape but the cream is made of pumpkin Y

I used a folk and melted chocolate to draw faces.

happy halloween!

pork & veggies in sweet chilli sauce

Last night's dinner Y

*fried rice (made by tina)

*pork and veggies in sweet chilli sauce

*niku jyaga (everyone loves niku jyaga!)

*seaweed and pickled plum soup


Pork & veggies in sweet chilli sauce recipe

Ingredients

*thin sliced pork 150g
*onion 1
*egg plant (big one) 1/2
*garlic 2 tea spoons
*water 1 cup
*chicken soup 1 tea spoons
*soya sauce 3 table spoons
*mirin 3 table spoons
*sugar 2 tea spoons
*chinese chill (to-ban jan) 2 tea spoons


Instructions


1. cut the onion and eggplants into thin slices.

2. heat up a pan with some oil and garlic. cook the meat and veggies. once cooked (cook till egg plants become soft), add all the ingredients, place a lid and cook for 5-10 mins.

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My mom always cook this dish back home in Japan and my sister and I LOVE it so much YY


and Today, my housemates loved it too YY


This is originally just a pork dish.

But I changed a bit of ingredients and added veggies!

The sauce is sooooo good that you can eat a lot of veggies! :)

Therefore, HEALTHY!



Assignment was due lastnight!

I finished it 8mins before midnight (dead line)!!!!!

I was soooo happy Y

Today, I went out for lunch with my housemates and had a huge huge hamburger from datch pancake shop :)


We are all so full that we didn't have dinner tonight.

shaved radish cream pasta

OMG, This is soooooooo YUM!!!!!!!!


Today's lunch YYY




*Shaved radish (daikon) cream pasta
*roasted pumpkin

Cream pasta recipe
shave 1/4 Japanese radish, drop a bit of soya sauce in, put it on the top of the pasta and eat it YYY



I love cream pasta, but whenever I eat it, I feel the pata sauce is a bit oily.
But this radish cream pasta is soooo refreshing!

honey carrots recipe

I had a semester end party with my music club people tonight.

I had some lasagna cooked by my housemate in the late afternoon and had few pizza for dinner at the party.

**From yesterday's dinner**

Honey carrots recipe

Ingredients

*carrot 1
*onion 1/2
*soya sauce 1 table spoon
*mirin 1 table spoon
*honey 1 table spoon



Instruction
1. cut the carrot and the onion into thin slices.
2. heat up a pan with some oil, stir fry them.
3. add soya sauce, mirin and honey, stir well. once carrot became softer, stop the fire.

Even my housemate who doesn't like carrots loved it :)

Miso chilli egg plant

I did a lot of study today :)

Still it's a long way to go to finish my 8000words essay, but I'm happy about my progress!

Today's dinner

*Miso chilli egg plant don
*Radish salad
*honey carrots
*Kakitama soup


Both my housemate and I loved today's dinner Y

Miso chilli egg plant recipe serves 2-3(Improved version of ma-bo nasu)




Ingredients

*nasu 1/2 (huge one)
*minced pork 200g
*miso 1 table spoon
*soya sauce 1 table spoon
*dried garlic 1 tea spoon
*to-ban jyan (chinese chilli)
*chicken soup stock 2 table spoons
*1 cup of water


Instructions

1 cut the egg plants into big thin slices
2. heat up a pot with some sesame oil. cook garlic, then cook pork.
3. once pork is cooked, add the water and the chicken soup stock. add egg plants, put few drops of sesame oil on egg plants. then, stir well.
4. add soya sauce, miso and chilli. when egg plants became soft, stop the fire :)

Tomo's Ramen lunch

Tomo's sho-yu ramen recipe serves 2

Ramen soup ingredients
-soya sauce 2 table spoons
-chicken soup stock 3 table spoons
-water 3 cups
-garlic 1 tea spoon
-bean sprouts 1 package

*dried wakame (sea weed) 1 table spoon
*ramen 2 brunches

*sausages 2 thick slice
-soya sauce 2 table spoons
-mirin 1 table spoon
-honey 1 table spoon


Instructions

1. put all the ramen soup ingredients into a pot and boil them for 10-15 mins, then add wakame, cook for another 5 mins.

2. meanwhile, cut the sausages into thiner slices, fry them with soya sauce, mirin and honey.

3. Take out another pot and cook ramen noodles. (Heat up water (3-4 cups) first, and once water is boiled, put ramen noodle in).

4. Once everything is done, put the cooked ramen noodles into a bowl, then pour the soup and finally place the sausages on the top!

yummmmm Y

My housemates loved it too!

story about sardine

I remember that the first fish dish I made was this sweet sardine kabayaki dish.

I went to Victorian Market and one of the guy in the fish stall was telling me that
he can give me 12 sardines for only $5.

Very cheap!

At that time, I wasn't quite sure what sardine was, but the guy kept telling me it is such a good price that I should get them.

I asked him how I should cook sardine, and he said,

"it's easy, just grill them!"

Today, I know that whenever I ask him this question about any fish in his store, he always bluffs and tell me to grill everything.

But at that time I didn't know him well and I was tricked.

When I came home and stood in the kitchen, I realized something was wrong.



How do I grill fish?


I was scared.

My sardines in a plastic bag were all bleeding.




I called my mom in Japan.

That what I do whenever I'm in troble.


I asked her how i can grill sardines.

she asked me rather carefully

"does sardine have its head?"


I said
"yes."


she said

"Ok, the first thing you gotta do is to squeeze the head and tear it out from the sardine body."


"WHAT?"


"you're so brave, my girl. I never buy dardine with its head. I buy the ones already nicely opend because I'm scared of taking its head off."


I said
"it's not fair!"


I was so depressed.

But my mom told me that once i go through this preparation process, i can cook my favorite dish, sweet sardine kabayaki.



I love kabayaki. so I gained motivation.


There is no fish swiming without its head off.
If you buy fish without its head, that means somebodyelse is doing the job for you.

I thought I should show appriciation to my sardines fish for giving me their life.



At that time, I was sharing a house with 9 other girls (we had individual bed rooms), and when I started to cook sardine, some girls came out from their rooms to check what I was doing.

Some of them said,

"Hey, what are you doing tomo?! looks so disgusting!" and run away.

Others said "Oh gosh, it is so smelly! " and went back to their rooms.

But there was one housemate who supported me.
She was quietly observing me dealing with the fish.
She didn't say anothing.

It was when I finished the hardest part of preparation and started to gril the fish with sauce, she said

"smells good and looks good. can i try some?"

We had dinner together with the sardines I cooked.

She said

"it tastes really good!"

and I agreed.

Yes, without your support, I couldn't cook kabayaki.

since then, sardine kabayaki becomes the most attached fish dish to me.