oden rice!

Weehee~ the strawberry season is really in full blast, and the bakeries are coming up with all sorts of breads with strawberries in them.

Strawberry & cream bread for breakfast =)

Lunch was ramen at home

salt based broth tsukemen

Tsukemen is any noodle dish where the noodles are separated from the broth, and you dip the still chewy noodles in the broth before slurping.

with home made charshu, and lots of beansprouts

We dropped by mister donut, but 100yen sale wasnt on, so we had no excuse to have donuts.

so tea time was...

peach shingen japanese cake

shingen is this very famous type of japanese cake from Yamanashi

this one was filled with peach bits!

and a very mildy sweeten bean paste, so it was really easy on the palette

loved it!

i did 2 experiments for dinner today

the first,

oden rice

using the soup from oden, adding burdock strips, carrots, chicken and shimeji mushrooms.

this takikomi rice was wonderfully flavoured!!!

the second,

crunchy natto

mixed flour into natto, and pan fried.

this was tasty too! would go well as a beer snack i reckon.

salt grilled isaki

this was good too, very tender and tasty =)

i always enjoy having fish for mains, but preparing it to be cooked is a very tough job.

when i take it out from the bag to give it a rinse, i dont like those pairs of eyes staring back at me. same thing for squids, and anything with a face & pair of eyes.

i wonder if it is just me, or most newbie housewives face this challenge too.