TGIF~

Bento

Sauteed sausage and egg cabbage, tuna and beans creamy salad, and carrot rice topped with roasted sesame seeds. Dessert was sliced banana in black sesame creme.

Dinner

Squid simple salt grilled.

Curry simmered dried daikon with with carrots and chikuwa.

Refreshing cucumber and wakame salad with light creamy sesame sauce

Edamame rice and in the background, pan fried curry hanpen. Hanpan was bought from the supermarket.

Freshly made today, light green tea pudding with red bean.

French inspired dinner

Dinner

Balsamic grilled chicken

Black pepper sauteed zucchini

Nutritious carrot rice to go with...

Black sesame pudding freshly made this morning

As i was making the paste to pour into the mould, i tasted some and somehow it reminds me of the cantonese dessert zhimahu!

Refreshing chicken stew?

The whole week has been wet so far, but we saw mostly sun today! Hoho finally managed to do some laundry...

Got this habit of planning what to cook for dinner the day before, so taking into consideration the weather these few days, i decided to cook chicken stew~ but since it got a bit hotter, i made the stew a little less heavy by adding grated daikon.

Dinner

Japanese chicken stew with grated daikon and enoki. The name for this kind of stew = mizoreni.

Melt in your mouth tofu with miso mayonaise topping.

Made this tofu using soymilk and nigari and popping it in the steamer for 25minutes.

Moloheya! Bought this from the vegetable seller this morning. I had thought this was only eaten in Egypt only! I am so glad to find it in Tokyo. Love the smooth and sticky texture of this...

The other side dish we had was steamed eggplant with chinese dressing.

Bento of the day... Made up of left over beef stew from last week. Gave it a week sautee this morning. And added a sweet egg omelette and a mini cucumber and ham skewer.

Matcha tiramisu!!!

made with green tea and rum soaked kueh bolu, layered with vanilla ice cream and topped with powdered green tea.

Grilled fish

This is something i crave most when i am not in Japan... Simply grilled fish. No oil, no dripping sauces.

It IS possible to enjoy fish grilled with just salt, nothing else. But this time i marinated it with 2 different kinds of miso and some wine.

Dinner

Grilled miso gindara with a side serving of pickles i made yesterday

Truffle salt sauteed shimeji served on a bed of warm brocolli salad

chilled egg tofu with crunchy okura

Taking a break from heavy meats

Having had meats for a few consecutive dinners, i decided to do tako ratatouille!

There is no bento today cos we had lunch out =)

Dinner

Japanese octopus ratatouille with a touch of balsamic

Black pepper sauteed giant scallops with eringi mushroom on a bed of crunchy cabbage

Instant tiramisu made with kueh bolu, layered with vanilla ice cream.

Using a one to one ratio of coffee and dark rum and a dash of sugar syrup, i drizzled the kueh bolu with this replacement for kahlua. then layered with vanilla ice cream and topped with cocoa powder!

comfort food weather

Its been continuously raining over the weekend and this pitter patter wont stop till the week is over so i heard.

So for a start, i was craving beef stew last night, but since i didnt prepare from morning, i decided to buy a premixed roux and some good wagyu from the butcher. The result was ooh lahlah. Without much effort, we had nice good comfort food at home on a rainy evening.

2 mini side salads to go with... okura and crunchy mountain yam salad with dashi, and cabbage salad with grilled nori topped with clear sesame dressing.

Today, again raining... the whole day...............

so we decided to have lunch at home.

zen lunch

black natto sitting on sticky yam topped on hot fluffy wholeweat rice

Tea time

green tea scones with sweet azuki beans
with roasted barley tea

Dinner

kimchi pork stew with poached egg =)

Friday night beer

Its friday! though it doesnt make much difference to me, it certainly influences my mood a little...


so i thought, ok i shall make beer the theme for tonights dinner.


(if u had already noticed, my apostrophe on the keyboard has retired, so pardon the grammar pls)





so, on todays menu...................

Bento

chicken karaage with toasted white sesame, tofu mash, spinach with ground sesame, rice topped with salted konbu

Dinner

Beer infused simmered chicken (with juicy giant shimeji mushroons, baby carrots, asparagus and baby potatoes)

chilled blanched cabbage topped with shiitake sauteed with crispy garlic flakes, drizzled with oyster sauce infused dressing.

there we have it, friday night beer for the 2 of us who dont normally drink alcohol.

oh, and what is beer without pretzels eh? To finish off, heres salty caramel ice cream made with crushed caramel pretzels!

belated first post

So, i got distracted yesterday and hence procrastinated the first post.











anyway, i present to u... todays menu...

Breakfast

JunAki cafe pumpkin scone with marron chocolate spread (bought during my paris trip)

Bento

edamame, crabstick, chikuwa onigiri
salmon mayo sushi, cherry tomatoes baked with melting cheese and garlic

Dinner

Japanese char siew (roast pork), lettuce and tomato salad dressed with sesame dressing, tofu mash with hijiki and edamame

crunchy enoki with chilled plum sauce

What i intended to post yesterday for my first post...

Tuesdays menu...

Bento

mango chicken salad

sardine, pink pickles and fluffy egg sushi rice

Dinner

top tuna tataki with creson side salad dressed with crunchy onions, spring onions and myoga

bottom chinese style simmered konnyaku salad

Wednesdays menu

Bento

crabstick salad drizzled with balsamic dressing, sliced bananans with creamy chocolate marron sauce

salmon egg fried rice

My favourite ice pack to keep deli stuff cool in this hot season...

Dinner

Miso roasted chicken with side tofu mash (think chicken and mash, Japanese style)

Mini salad of cool blanched cabbage topped with sauteed sakura ebi and cherry tomatoes.