Japanese style pasta

Today's lunch Y

Tuna & Egg & Sea weed pasta !!

(One of the pasta I cooked yesterday)

I LOVE RICE THE BEST!!

But

I Quite LIKE PASTA TOO!!

This Japanese style pasta doesn't use cream.
So it's always healthy and you don't feel tired of eating! :)








Also, this pasta taste good even when it's cold!
So you can bring it to school as lunch too!!

Japanese pasta serves 2

Ingredients

*pasta 200g

*canned tuna1

*egg 2

*soya sauce 2-3 table spoons

*sea weed (nori) 1 piece

*garlic 1 tea spoon



Instructions



1. boil the pasta


2. heat up a pan with some oil and garlic. cook the egg and tuna.


3. add the cooked pasta and soya sauce. stir well.


4. stop the fire, add the seaweed, stir well.



****note***

Whenever I cook pasta, I love to boil a lot of pasta and make 2 different pasta sauces. Pasta is so handy for lunch but if you cook too much of the same pasta sauce, you get sick of it.
So, it's better when you cook pasta, just boil a lot of pasta, split them into two, mix them with 2 different kinds of pasta sauces!

New Japanese friend

MONDAY!!!!!

Ah weekends always finish so fast!

I feel like I'm on holiday already.... after all the fun I had at the camp...

This morning, my alarm rang and so I woke up.


But I was wondering...

"why did the alarm ring?... isn't it sunday?"






"hmm?"


NOOOOOO!!!!



It's Monday!!!

and I had a morning lecture today.

luckily, I didn't miss my lecture!
I skipped my breakfast to make it for the lecture though... :(




And then...

In the afternoon, I cooked a lot!! :)

I finished all the food before I left for the camp and so I had to cook something...


All I had was the hamburger steaks from last nigh..




So I started to cook some random stuff...

*2 different kinds of pasta

*beef pizza

*veggie roasts

*miso soup

*veggie stir fry

very random...

and I realized that nowadays... I don't really cook Japanese food....

Anyway, it took me about... 1 hour and half to cook them.

I was satisfied!!!




But I realized that...

I forgot to cook rice again!!!!!!!!





NOOOOO!!!


I LOVE rice.

I NEED rice.



I definetely have to cook rice tomorrow for sure!!!!!!!!




Anyway...
I had an early dinner today because it's monday and I had an orchestra rehearsal at night!



My lips are so dry and I couldn't play well today.... :(
and my conductor picked on me!!!!!





Oh well, that's ok, because....


I have a new Japanese friend in orchestra now!!!


:) :) :)


Today, a new girl who plays oboe joined our orchestra!!


And she is Japanese!!




I haven't spoken Japanese for so long....


She is on exchange, so she is leaving at the end of the year...... :(



But still, it's so good to have someone from your country around!


Since..... there are not many international students in the EMS music club.
and I was the only Japanese in the club.

I'm happy :)




Today's recipe is in the post below

pizza and veggie roasts recipes

Today's dinner YY

pizza

and

Veggie roasts

yum yum yum....

Pizza recipe

***I didn't use a pizza bread***

Ingredients

*lebanese bread 1

*tomato sauce 3-4 table spoons

*red capsicum (big one) 1/2

*green capsicum (big one) 1/2

*mushrooms 4

*tomato 1

*some minced beef

*cheese 3 table spoons

Instructions
1. place the lebanese bread on the oven tray. spread the tomato sauce equally on the bread.

2. put all the veggies and meat. (you don't need to follow the ingredients here, just put whatever left in the fridge, or your favorite veggies)

3. put the cheese on the top.

4 cook in the oven for 15-20 mins (200℃)

Veggie roasts recipe

Ingredients

*red camsicums 1

*mushrooms 4

*WEDGES!!!

*herbs (oregano, thyme, basil 3 table spoons each).

*olive oil 3 table spoons

(if you have 2 trays or more, you can cook the pizza and veggie roast at the same time! or even semi-dried tomatoes as well!)

Instructions

1. wash the veggies, cut them into pieces. place them on an oven tray coverd with some aluminium foil.

2. sprinkle herbs on veggies. (1 table spoon each for each type of vegetable)

3. sprinkle olive oil on veggies (1 table spoon each for each type vegetable)

4. cook them in the oven for 15-30 mins (200℃)

***you have to take out wedges ealier than other veggies!!! if not, wedges will get too hard!!

The EMS music camp!

I came back from the music camp today!

This is where we stayed ↑↑

Only the first day was sunny!

the last day was raining!

and it was always windy.....

The camping place was quite far from Melbourne.

It's very close to Ballarat!!

It's about 2 hour drive by car from city.





and 5-6 hours of cycling! (Some people actually came by bicycle!!)

I have no bicycles, no energy to cycle for 6 hours... so I got a lift from other people.

The scenery was beautiful☆

everywhere was tree, tree, tree, grass, grass, grass

and many cute sheep and cows YYY
(we talked about catching one for dinner...)

That's what I love about the countryside YY





We had a lot of productive practice + good food + fun games!

BBQ Y hamburger steaks for lunch!

Among the many fun games we played, I loved the "finish your food as fast as you can" game the most.

We play this game whenever there are too much leftovers.

2 people from each team must participate in the game and whichever team finishes up the food fast can win!!


Consequently, No food wastage!!

Actually, I was very nervous to join the camp because I didn't know many people at the camp.

It's my second camp and when I joined my first camp, I made some friends, but they had left the music club already!! :( :(




Well, I loved the camp!!!! :) :)

and I'm happy that I could make it to the camp!
(I was too busy with my assignments last semester)


The food was good!!
(We had breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and deseart!! 5-6 meals a day?! I ate so much!!)



People were very nice!!
(They are kind... I got to know new people and also got to know them better Y)



I did practice more music and I have indeed, improved!!!



And it was a nice refreshment for me because I was pretty much stuck and stressed about my study.

I was badly homesick before I joined the camp, but I feel so much better now !! :) :) :)



I'm so tired and sleepy thoughhhhhhhhhhhh.....
I'm not used to sleeping in a sleeping bag + it was so cold and I couldn't sleep well.





Anyway,





I was quite full when I came home, but I had to eat something!!
(because later on, I'll definetely be hungry!)








So i cooked hamburger steaks!!!!!!!!





... even though I just had one at the camp today..... haha








It's ok.


meat gives you energy.

(so that someday i can cycle to the camp!)





and it's sooooo easy to cook.
you just need to use a microwave oven!



↓recipe is in the post below.

super easy hamburger steaks recipe

I got them for only $1. 50!!!

... from the auction at the music camp YY

At the end of the camp, there is always an AUCTION for leftovers (food, drinks, etc).

NO wastage of food and drinks!!!

What I won... YY

*2L of milk

*14 eggs

*butter

*minced beef X3 packages!! (1500g??)

I'm happy YYYYY

Today's dinner...

*Hamburger steak

*Potato salad

*Fresh tomatos

*Corn soup

*Wite rice





....Well, this is actually not today's dinner.




This is the dinner which I had about a week ago... haha



Today, I forgot to cook rice + not that hungry because of all the food I ate at the camp.




So I only had a hamburger steaks for dinner ..... :p

But I did cook hamburg steaks today!

It's so easy and tasty... so I cook them often nowadays....





Hamburger steak recipe serves 4

Ingredients

*minced beef 500g

*onion 1/2 (or onion flakes1 table spoon)

*garlic 1 tea spoon

*bread crumb 1 table spoon

*milk 1 tea spoon

*Basil 1 tea spoon



1. mix all the ingredients above. put them in a microwabale tray.

2. cook in the microwave for 5-10 mins (depends on the type of the oven)

Cut them into 4 to serve.

Add tomato sauce + cheese and eat them!

mushroom and cheese risotto

Today's lunchY

Risotto recipe serves 2

Ingredients

*mushrooms 50g
*cheese 2 table spoons
*konsome 1 cube
*garlic 1 tea spoon
*rice 2 cups
*water 1/3 cup

Instructions

1. cut the mushrooms into small pieces. Heat up a pan with some oil+ garlic and fry the mashrooms.

2. add the rice, water and konsome (smash the konsome while stiring).

3 add the cheese and stir well.

I'm going for a music camp tonight!

I have to pack....

But I hate to do packing!!


I bought a new sleeping bag for the camp the other day.

and last night, I opened it up just to check if everything is ok.

and then,

now i can't put it back to the bag anymore!!



Why?



Now, i have to put my brand NEW sleeping bag into a big trash bag to carry...


aww...


Even though the trash bag is a BRAND NEW and in fact, very CLEAN, it's kind of sad! :(

Looks very ugly too..


Oh well!

avocado sandwich& roasted carrots

My housemate brought back a very BIG chicken!!
She got it from her friend who runs a vegetable shop.


According to her, every thursday is her friend's "chicken day" and he buys a big chicken for himself and also for her sometimes...








Cool!!








My housemate used to go and buy vegetables from his shop and that's how they became friends with each other♪





And and, my housemate shared some of her chicken with me :) :)


Happy YY





The chicken was soooo good!!!
so tender...Y




I was excited and forgot to take a picture of the chicken though..... ah... not again.






So I had her chicken for dinner today :)


I had the avocado sandwich & roasted carrots (picture above) after I came back from shopping today (around 5? ) so i was very full just eating this tasty chicken!!



I wanted to buy new boots today because all my boots are spoilt...

I always go back to Japan for Uni's summer break (November to febuary)and it's always winter when I'm in Japan.


Also, June to August is winter in Australia... so, I'm always doing winter (7 months in a year) since I came to study in Melbourne!


No wonder my boots spoil so fast.... !!


I thought I could find some nice pairs of boots with cheap price (because there are some sales going on now) but I couldn't find my size anymore.. all sold out!!!


:( :(


I gotta wait till I go back to Japan to get new pairs of boots!








anyway....





Going back to the topic of food,





I LOVE AVOCADO veryyyyy much nowadays YYYY




This morning, I had avocado+ soya sauce+ pickled plum with rice and this afternoon, I had this avocado sandwich YY








I had never cooked avocado before so I didn't know how easy and tasty avocado could be!!
I love the texture too!!

(I ate abocado focaccia sandwichs before in some cafe in melbourne and I loved them though!)



And the carrots roast......YY


I hated carrots before.

I hated all the veggies before (except for potatoes, onions and eggplants).


But after my friend took me to one of the best vegetarian restaurants in Melbourne, I started to LOVE vegetables!!!


Veggies are actually very tasty.... haha

And "roasted veggies" was one of my favorite dishes I had at the vegetarian restaurant.

Inside of the restaurant was very dark... so i wasn't sure what was inside and how it was cooked...but I tasted carrots, potatoes, eggplants in some herb sauce!

So I decided to cook one by myself :)


Avocado sandwich recipe serves 2

*avocado 1
*canned tuna 1/2
*soya sauce 1 tea spoon

*cheese 2 slices
*bread 4 slices
*butter 1 tea spoon

Instructions
1. take out the seed of the avocado. Scoop out the inside (get rid of the skin) and smash it with a spoon.
2. mix the avocado, canned tuna and soya sauce and stir them well.
3. toast your bread and put the butter on.
4. put the avocado paste and half melting cheese in between the bread.



roasted carrots serves 2
*carrot 1
*herbs (any herbs you like)
-oregano
-basil
-thyme
1/2 each
*olive oil 1 table spoon

1. cut the carrot into small pieces, place them on a tray coverd by alyminium foil.
2. pour the herbs and the olive oil.
3 heat up an oven to 180℃. Roast them for 30-40 mins.