Cooking Books
12月
7
My breakfast on Sunday was this plate. I really wanted to eat rice on that day. But my husband doesn’t want to eat rice in the morning,,,, I wanted to eat sunny-side up, but cooked scrambled egg.
Talking about Sunny-side up, one day, I used the word “sunny-side up” at my work place, then a co-worker laughed at me and said, “we don’t use that word, that’s American use and only in the TV show for us”… I learned Australian say, “fried egg!” and not ‘Sunny-side up”. hahaha…
Well, people plan to go to Japan, I warn you. Usually Japanese traditional hotel’s breakfast is with rice.
- Scrambled egg with Mushroom
- Spinach with grated White Radish (just boil spinach and mix with graded white radish, sauce I used was Ponzu sauce)
- Carrot with pounded sesame seeds
Carrot with pounded Sesame Seeds
<Ingredients>
- Carrot – 1
- Sesami Oil – 1/2 tsp
- Water – 50cc
- Sake (cooking wine) – 1 tbsp
- pinch salt
- Sesame seeds mixture – ground sesame seeds – 2 tbsp, sugar – 1/2 tsp, soy sauce – 1/2 tsp
<How to cook>
- Mixture all ingredients of Sesame seeds mixture
- Shred carrot
- Put sesami oil in pot and fry carrot lightly.
- Add water, sake and salt into step 3 and cover with lid, then leave it for 2-3 minutes
- Take a lid off and evaporate water
- Place it in a bowl and mix with Sesame mixture
12月
5
Another Salad which received a favourable review on Friday gathering was Asparagus and Onion Marinate
Asparagus and Onion Marinate
<Ingredients>
- Asparagus 4-5 (about 100g)
- Onion 1/2
<Marinate dressing – Mix together>
- Vinegar 2tbsp
- Olive Oil 1tbsp
- Light Colored Soy Sauce 1 tbsp
<How to cook>
- Peel hard skin of Asparagus’ root
- Cut them 3-4 cm long and cooked them with boiled water which was added a pinch of salt( Make it soft but not too soft)
- Put them into a colander, strain water, and cool them down
- Make thin slice of Onion, place into a bowl and mixed with Marinate dressing
- Asparagus into step 4 and mix with onion
- Keep step 5 in a refrigerator for an hour
12月
5
I introduce a couple of easy to make salads.
I brought it Friday night gathering and many people liked it.
-Shred Potato Salad-
<Ingredients>
- Potato – 1
- Carrot – 1/2
- Snow-pea Sprouts
<Dressing – Mix all ingredients first>
- Water – 1tbsp
- Vinegar – 1tbsp
- Light Colored Soy Sauce – 2tsp
- Sugar – 1/2 tsp
- Sesame Oil – 1tsp
<How to cook>
- Peel potato skin and shred it 4-5 cm.
- Rinse shred potato
- Peel carrot skin and shred it as same as potato
- Boil water and cook shred potato and carrot together for 30 seconds. (If you cook too long, it will be too soft and taste not good).
- Put them into a colander, strain water, and cool them down
- Place them and Snowpea Sprouts into a bowl and toss them with dressing
Vinegar in Australia overall, the taste is a bit lighter.
Also If you couldn’t find Light Colored Soy Sauce, you can use normal Soy Sauce, but put 1tsp and not 2tsp.
These are vinegar and Light Colored Soy Sauce I use. I sometimes see these items at Coles, but if you cannot find it, you can have it Japanese Super Market.
11月
29
Today, I show our dinners…
These are one plate dinners I cooked…..
11月
29
Miso soup is one of famous Japanese dish.
I found a good video at You Tube. Japanese lady is explaining how to make Miso Soup in English!
Recipe of “Dashi” is here.
Dashi Basic Stock
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Tofu and Wakame Seaweed Miso Soup
11月
26
My friend, Kyomi, bought me chocolates from “Confiseri Du Plessy Pralin” last month.
I was studying on that time, she gave me it as a present for my effort.
It was so nice chocolate.
Chocolate in Australia is generally too sweet.
But this shop’s chocolates are not so sweet.
She gave me several different taste of chocolates, Milk, White, Dark, and Mocha.
I personally like Mocha.
The shop was introduced at Good Living Guide of Sydney Morning Herald last year.
If you are interested in, here is detail of shop.
Address : Shop 17 Philip Mall, West Pymble, NSW
Phone: 02-9498-8089
Opening times : Mon – Fri: 9am-5pm, Sat: 9am-1pm
11月
25
This is “Horenso no Goma-ae”. I like eating Spinach with Sesame Dressing.
This is good side dish for Japanese food.
This is actually I cooked 2 weeks ago. Usually, this dish is only Spinach. But I like carrot, so I put it in.
I think you like watching this video, even you don’t understand language. He is showing how to cook it. My recipe is a bit different of his way of cooking, but it is very similar.
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Spinach with Sessame Dressing (Horenso no Goma-ae)