Saturday 24 April 2010

pumpkin risotto



Today's lunch

Pumpkin Risotto





Ingredients for 4

rice 3 cups
pumpkin 1/4
red capsicum 1/2
asparagus 2
consome 2 cubes
cheese 2 slices
honey 2 table spoons
salt and pepper



Instructions.

1. Cook rice

2. cut the pumpkin into smaller blockes. Take out the skin, microwave them for 4-5 mins till they become soft. Once become soft, smash them and put salt and papper.

3. cut the capsicum, asparagus into small pieces.

4. once rice is cooked, put rice in a pot, pour 1 cup of water, and consome (it's better if you melt the consome with boiling water before putting it into the pot).

5. add the veggie (add pumpkin at the end), honey and stir again.

6. slice the cheese with hands and add them into the pot.

7. stir well, if it's not salty enough, add a bit more of salt and pepper.


done Y

Thursday 15 April 2010

cream pasta with my new favorite plate



This is my favorite plate from Giburi museum in Tokyo.


The black cat on the plate (ジジ) is a character from the famous Miyazaki Hayao movie, "Kiki's Delivery".


I bought this plate when I went back to Japan for holiday over the new year.


It's fun both eating and cooking with a new cute plateY




Monday 5 April 2010

Cullen Skink


This is a traditional Scotish milk soup with cod fish.
The other day, when I went to Safeway (supermarket) with my bf, a lady came to us and suggested us to buy cod fish and make some Scotish milk soup.
I have never eaten scotish food so I was very curious.
The lady was very nice that she wrote a recipe on the back of her reciept and gave it to us.
After we came home, my bf cooked it.
It was very nice creamy soup Y

I had't eaten much fish lately so I was simply happy to get to eat fish as well.

I eat a lot of fish in Japan but once I came back to Melbourne, I tend to eat meat over fish.
It's because I found fish here quite expensive.

However, cod fish is not that expensive.

I shall come up with some recipes for cod fish and eat more fish from now on Y

Today, we also had grilled salmon for dinner!


Fish is supporsed to be good for your brain :)
I heard that it makes you more intelligent!

Let's see...

27 dresses




"27 dresses" is one of the best movies ever YYY

I watched it last night with my housemate.



昨晩、”幸せになるための27のドレス”という映画を見ました。

これ、とーーーーっても良い映画 Y





OMG, I love him!!
He is really cute in the movie!

そして、彼がかっこよすぎです。

I love this movie so much that I watched it 2 times last night.

I want to watch it again tonight... (crazy)



Anyway, seriously this is a good movie.


映画、気に入りすぎて、昨日だけで2回も巻き戻してみてしまった!!

今晩もまた見たいなぁ…

本当にいい映画!!






The dresses which lead you to your happy ending
幸せになるためのドレスたち。




Since I was small, I have been having this habit to watch my favorite movies over and over again...like many times a day.


私は、子供のころから、気に入った映画は何度も何度も繰り返して見る傾向があります。

(1日に、本当に何回も)





My favorite movie in my childhood was "my neighbour totoro"
I used to watch this over and over again (according to my mum)
I still love this movie.

小さいころ大好きだった映画は、となりのトトロ。
これもよく、繰り返して見ていたらしい…
これも良い映画☆


Saturday 3 April 2010

HAPPY EASTER








I heard from my housemate that we were not supposed to eat meat on the easter friday.

So we tried.

Vegetarian dinner Y on friday



イースターの金曜日は、お肉はなるべく食べないようにするのがいいって、ハウスメートが言ってたので、金曜の夜ご飯はほぼ野菜で攻めました♪


ツナを食べたから、完璧にベジタリアンではないけど、ツナ以外はすべてベジタリアンです。




Deep fried dumplings with tuna and cheese
ツナとチーズの揚げ餃子




veggie omelet (onions and carrots )

野菜のオムレツ




Tofu with sweet chili sauce
ピリ辛ソースで焼いた厚揚げ




salad

サラダ
ゆずドレッシングと、ゴマドレと、マヨネーズをかけていただきます。




soy beans, carrots, tofu, devil's tongue in Japanese traditional sweet sauce

大豆の煮物




devel's tongue (konnyaku) with garlic BBQ sauce

蒟蒻のにんにくたっぷりソース







Long beans with shaved bonitoes
インゲンのおかか和え





Traditonal radish dish
大根の煮物



Feast!!!!

Our friend came over for dinner today and we cooked together.




After dinner, we drew easter eggs!!

I love drawing.





I've done "easter egg drawing" before but it was long time ago, when I was really small.

I wanted to draw on more eggs, but we didn't have many eggs in our fridge.


It was a fun easter dinner Y



野菜ばっかりだったけど、いろいろ作ったからごちそうになりました!

お友達が遊びに来てくれて、一緒に料理しました。

食後は、イースターエッグ作り。

卵を、ゆでて、絵を描きます。

あんまり卵がなくて、一人一つずつしか描けなかったけど、楽しかった♪