We had a peaceful weekend at Okaasans place this time.
We had curry hot pot on saturday night and yummy soba lunch today at a relatively famous soba restaurant near her place. =)
After lunch, we went to a cosmos flower farm to relax. It was beauuuuuuuutiful... The pics are in my handphone, so will probably upload them next time.

Anyway, this was lunch on saturday...

Soba with lots of sticky foods topping which i find impossible to describe in english

そばのトッピングは納豆とちりめんじゃこ入りのなめこ、長いもの海苔おかかソテー、きゅうり

Sunday Dinner at home

豆腐明太

サイドはミニサラダとすり胡麻入りのかぼちゃ煮物

Okaasan gave us this chestnut roll cake, so we had it for dessert =)

Pumpkin is in season now, and they are really really yummy at this time of the year.

i decided to grill them (in my oven) today =)

J obento

Yakiniku (BBQed pork) cheese with wholemeal bagel

Dinner

Sauteed scallops with mushroom cream sauce, grilled pumpkin, brocolli salad with garlic olive oil dressing

i baked my first bagel today.
the shape is nice, but the surface was a bit ugly.
i wont post the pic today cos it will b in J obento tmr.

anyway, today at JunAki kitchen,

Breakfast

freshly baked pão de queijo (brazillian cheese buns)

In Japan, it is called Pondekeshon and is quite popular.

i used mochi flour so it had a really chewy texture inside.

J obento

black pepper pork cutlets with cheese stuffing, cucumber salad with balsamic dressing, and sweet potato raisin mayo salad

sliced up bagel toasted into croutons for my snack time

Dinner

sauteed tofu and vegetables, in Chinese style sticky egg sauce
高野豆腐あんかけ

sauteed mountain yam with seaweed and bonito

長いもの海苔おかか炒め物

Mountain yam, called yamaimo, is one of my favourite root vegetable. Unlike the usual taro which is light purple and quite heavy, yamaimo is refreshing and crunchy. When grated, it has a becomes sticky and gooey. I love it over soba =)

塩カラメルグラノラ

I made crumble bits to go with the granola i made on sunday.

Yup, the crumble bits that you would find on apple crumble...

Chocolate crumble bits with maple granola

cinammon crumble bits with home made apricot custard as dessert this evening.

I made custard with less sugar so that i could add different flavoured jam to it. This time, i used the apricot jam Okaasan made for us during apricot season few months ago=)

New batch of granola made yesterday... Salty caramel granola

自家製塩カラメルグラノラ

Tuedays J obento

Chicken karaage, omeletter and cucumber yukari mayo salad

Tuesday dinner

Simmered dried daikon with chicken bits

切干大根とそぼろの煮物

Mushroom garlic marinade

まいたけのガ一リックマリネサラダ

Todays J obento

Smoked chicken from Lisa, croquette, cheesy egg omelette and ham seaweed roll

For dinner tonight, it is JunAki Indo style. There is this new curry cafe Fuji Indo that just opened this month near our place and each time i walk pass it, i crave curry. (Indo means Indian in Japanese.)

Mushroom curry with the balanced stew from yesterday added in.

きのこカレ一・昨日残った煮物入り

Sweet potato and persimmon Indian style yoghurt dressing

インド風味のさつまいもと柿ヨ一グルトサラダ

（ヨ一グルトにマヨとカルダモン入りのドレッシングです。）

ディナ一後スナック・もちもちチ一ズ焼き

Today was a national holiday.
so we had a mini holiday at home too~!

Lunch at home

Pumpkin onion soup, ham and spinach salad

New batch of granola... cinammon and maple bran granola

Hot pot Dinner

We bought a brand new claypot today. I know its huge. we decided to buy the larger one since Jun says we r going to have to share with 10 kids in future.

Miso based hot pot with lots of vegetables and also, gobou (burdock) meatballs.

はじめてのごぼう肉団子

=) satisfied./

long weekend

It is national sports day in Japan tomorrow, so another holiday for us!
=)

Saturdays lunch

Natto curry with poached egg

served with a side salad of creamy cucumber and mountain yam salad


freshly baked mini earl grey chiffon cake in paper cups for tea time

Sundays lunch

Udon in thick pumpkin soup

Dinner

Butter miso baked cod, with gobou (burdock) salad

Cabbage soy milk soup
We bought this from the store. It is sweet potato season now as i keep mentioninig, so sweet potato tarts are popular at this time of the year.

One of the tart had purple sweet potato filling in it. Pretty!~

hamburger fri night

J Bento

Mini lasagne, cucumber mentai cheese salad, simmered sweet pumkin

Dinner

Hamburger with with red wine sauce, carrot glaces and blanched asparagus

普通のハンバーグレシピ使ったけどパン粉の代わり高野豆腐のすりおろしに。

Dessert was home made red bean soy milk ice lollies

and since i was making ice lollies, i used the same ice cream recipe, added green tea powder and made green tea blended cream@@

I really cant believe i was watching indian dance in JAPAN!

It was a Japanese language program by the way, Japanese dancers, Japanese music. Indian dance.