I made granola today!
I like the hard and crunchy type that i usually buy from Marks and Spencers every time i do my London flights. I was craving granola this week but cant really find the same kind at the local supermarket, so i decided to try making my own =) Using just honey, chocolate cornflakes, quaker oats and run infused raisins...

Crunchy golden granola

best enjoyed with yoghurt or ice cream!




Breakfast


Using last nights salad, i turned it into a scrambled egg topping for hot fluffy rice for breakfast

昨日の長いもサラダプラス溶き卵・ご飯の上に＝丼

J bento

Dinner

Simmered pumkin with miso meat sauce

かぼちゃの煮物。上にかけているかぼちゃの種は同じかぼちゃから取って今日焼けてみました！

cucumber salad with pink sour plum and sesame dressing

きゅうりサラダ・梅干入りごま塩だれ

and granola topped vanilla ice cream for dessert...

I received a box of Japanese pears from Okaasan yesterday. HOHO they were huge and crunchy and sweet! i placed an apple next to it to compare the SIZE of the pear... =)

Black bean mabo eggplant

Bento

Ham and corn rice croquette, wakame mentaiko salad, creamy mushroom potato salad

According to my calendar, this friday is love your eyesight day in Japan 目の愛護デー. I read that eating dark purple pigmented foods are supposed to help you improve your eyesight. So blueberries, eggplant, black rice, etc are all supposed to help. Daytime gets shorter in Autumn, so i guess that is why there is such a day to help us remember to take extra care of our eyesight this season. I decided to make mabo eggplant tonight with the black bean sauce i brought back from Singapore.

Dinner

Mabo eggplant with black bean sauce

今回は黒豆豆板醤入りのマーボなすです

山芋とツナマヨサラダ（出汁出した昆布と鰹節入り）

cookie day

I made cookies again today~

Black sesame kinako cookies

Kinako is a kind of powdered soy bean powder,
To create the soybean flour, soybeans are toasted and ground into powder. Its flavor is commonly compared to that of peanut butter.

Matcha in love

Green tea butter cookies

Monday J Bento

Ginger shoyu BBQ style sauteed pork, sakura prawns omelette

Mondays Dinner

Sweet japanese curry

Parfait of the day.

chocolate coated cornflakes layered with chocolate custard, and nutty cream custard, topped with mini chocolate crusted ice cream. All made at home except for the ice cream.

Todays breakfast

Egg and pink pickled onigiri

Todays dinner

Chicken and mushroom mustard cream stew

Adding mustard to the stew gives it a rich cheesy flavour without the heaviness of cheese

Chilled greens topped with crunchy carrots and mentaiko(salty egg roe)

lazy sunday

On a lazy sunday,

we had...

Freshly baked shortcake biscuit with home made rasberry soymilk custard
Custard that is full of soymilk goodness...
Taiyaki ANPAN
...filled with yummy red bean paste bought from the store

Dinner

Simmered squid with daikon

Grilled leek salad with mustard mayo dressing

odennnnnnn

We had oden for dinner tonight.
I usually like to make friday night dinners bar style so that we can sort of celebrate some happy events that took place over the week.
This time, J was really delighted over the completion of some project he was working on, so tonight at JunAki bar, we had oden and vegetable sticks with izakaya style miso dip.

J obento

mustard tartare baked salmon, cheesey omelette with cabbage bits, maple drizzled satsumaimo

Dinner @ JunAki Bar

Simply ODEN

vegetable sticks with sweet miso dip

J obento

ham and cheese roll, sweet potato n sausage salad, sauteed cabbage

Dinner
Chinese style

Chilli prawns in egg sauce and chestnut brown rice

Chilled asparagus salad drizzled with oyster dressing

Bought this traditional japanese tart while shopping today...

Sweet potato roll and pumpkin red bean tart

Sweet potatoes are in season now. Specifically, satsumaimo, the Japanese sweet potato is used in many dishes and cakes of the season.

I havent had such fine tarts for quite some time. so engrossed were we in savouring th fine bean paste in the tart that we forgot to take a picture of the bean paste in there. Beautiful colour combination...

hot hot gratin

On a cold morning...

ochazuke breakfast

Bento

oinari sushi, fish sausage nori roll, sauteed brocolli and pumpkin

Dinner

Hot hot gratin... with big fat juicy hotates (scallop)

sauteed konbu with sakura prawns and puchi tomato

chocolate cookies made this morning~