Corn rice and freshwater clams miso soup

Corn rice is seasoned with soy sauce, salt and butter.

'Genghis Khan'

This is a Japanese dish called 'Genghis Khan'. 'Genghis Khan' is mutton barbecue. Mutton is often eaten in Hokkaido.

Hot German potato salad

I used herb sausages instead of bacon.

Spaghetti with fresh tomatoes and uncured ham

Tomatoes are now in season in Hokkaido.

Nyumen with asparagus

Nyumen is boiled somen noodles served hot without cooling, in hot soup like udon, or stewed in soup.

Asahikawa Ramen

Ramen with miso based soup.

TSURUYA

hidari10 19chome 4jyo-douri Asahikawa-shi Hokkaido, JAPAN

Ginger pork saute dinner

Ginger pork saute is a very popular dish in Japan.

The corn and tomatoes are now in season in Hokkaido.

The local dishes of Hokkaido

Potatoes with butter.  In Hokkaido, boiled potatoes is sometimes eaten with salted squid.

Yakizakana. Yakizakana is grilled fish. Many varieties of fish are enjoyed in this way. This fish is atka mackerel. Atka mackerel is very popular fish in Hokkaido.

Marinated vegetables. (This dish isn't local dish.)

Curry marinated cauliflower. (This dish isn't local dish.)

Wafuu spaghetti

Wafuu spaghetti is a Japanese style pasta. This spaghetti was seasoned soy sauce, mentsuyu (a Japanese soup base), salt and pepper and then topped with toasted seaweed and shiso (perilla).

 

Vegetables salad.

Melon.

Baked chicken with maitake mush-room

Mix the soy sauce marinated chicken breast, and maitake mush-room and leek with olive oil. Then bake those for 20 to 30 minutes or until chicken is browned well. Sorry!!! This chicken was not baked enough.

Tuna and crystalline iceplant salad.

Take out sushi

Sushi topping ; From left the nearer side, salmon roe, sea urchin, scallop, shrimp, crab, tuna, herring roe, sea bream.

Sushi made by wrapping dried seaweed around rice and after placing delicate fillings such as salmon roe, sea urchin, etc. in the rice is called 'Gunkanmaki'(battleship roll sushi), but, this is considered as a kind of Nigiri-zushi.

Grilled squid

Mix the soy sauce, mirin, sliced garlic and rub into the squid and leave to marinate for a minimum of one hours in the fridge. And then quickly grilled to tender perfection.

Green hiyamugi noodles

'Hiyamugi' is wheat noodles chilled on ice and served with a dipping sauce. In Hokkaido, green hiyamugi noodles called 'green men,' made by mixing in powdered chlorella, are widely distributed.

Shiokara breakfast

Boiled fish pastes. Cheese, green soybeans, black soybeans and pumpkin.

'Shiokara' is a food comprised of the internal organs of squid pickled in salt.

MARUSEI BUTTER

'Marusei butter' is very popular sweets made in Hokkaido. I love 'marusei butter' since I was a child.

ROKKATEI

3-19 nishi24-jo kita1-chome Obihiro-shi Hokkaido, JAPAN

Yakisoba

Yakisoba is fried soba noodles seasoned with sauce. Ingredients are pork, soybean sprouts and sweet peppers.

Maitake mush-room udon noodles

Japanese quick and easy lunch.

Chicken and vegetables dinner

Marinated chicken breast and roasted cauliflower.

Caprese salad (Tomato and Mozzarella).

Carrot salad.

Blue pond in Japan

'Blue pond' is in Hokkaido, Japan where I live. This pond was adopted the wallpaper for apple inc this year. I went to there yesterday. Really beautiful !!!!!

Shiokouji-flavored vegetables pasta

Note : 'Shiokouji' is traditional Japanese condiment made by fermenting kouji mold with salt and water.

Cold Chinese noodles

Chinese noodles chilled in cold water and topped with sliced tomatoes, cucumbers, hams and paper-thin omelet etc... Put some sauce over the noodles before eating. Usually I use sauce that is sold in a bottle.