no cheese day

Yay! i made it substaining from cheese today.

Breakfast was grilled shitake onigiri (rice balls)

rice wrapped whole shitake mushrooms sauteed in butter & shoyu. =)

Lunch was a dish called treasure bag that i tried to mimick after watching this restaurant featuring their special dish
A big piece of fried beancurd skin filled with...

udon! so this is what the customers at this restaurant look forward to, opening the bag with their chopsticks and tucking into hot hot udon in delicious plain shoyu broth.

Dinner tonight was gyoza!

that crispy base is actually called wings.

a result of adding flour water into the pan while cooking the qyozas. this is usually served upside down with the wings on the top side.
added lots of leeks and cabbage in there.

but J says he prefers less leeks and more cabbage >.<>

gotta work harder at this!

hijiki rice

those long strips are actually a kind of seaweed called hijiki.

i parboiled them really long to remove the seaweed smell and steeped them in a sake & shoyu mixture. this really makes us finish our rice fast =)