Back in Japan

I finally finished my final assignments and came back to Japan!!! :) yay!!!
I'm really happy to see my family and friends again!!!!X)
I won't be cooking much in Japan because I can finally eat my mom's cooking again!!! :p

I baked a birthday cake for my brother though!

Have a lovely christmas and a happy new year to everyone!

xoxoxo

Tomo

pork miso udon

I love it when the egg is half cooked...

Udon serves 3


Ingredietns

*Udon 1& half bunchs

*water 6-8 cups

*Japanese soup stock 1/2 package
*miso 1 table spoon

*mushroom 2

*minced pork 150g

*mirin 1 table spoon

*soya sauce 1 tea spoon


Instructions


1. cut the mushrooms into thin slices.
2. heat up a pot with some sesame oil, cook the pork and the mushrooms. add mirin and soya sauce, stir well.

3. pour the water and the soup stock in the same pot. cook with strong fire, once boiled, add miso and take out scums.

4. put udon in the same pot. take out scums, once udon is cooked, it's done!

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 :)