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.

Honey and soy sauce marinated Chicken Breasts

We often eat chicken breasts that is low fat. And we eat lots of fresh vegetables especially on summer.

Ochazuke

Ochazuke is boiled rice with tea poured over it. It used instant ume-chazuke mix.

Kumamoto Ramen

Frozen Ramen was arrived from my friend!!!

 

How to make a Kumamoto Ramen.

Kumamoto Ramen is 'pork bone broth ramen' which uses a very thick soup made out of boiling a huge amount of pork bones at high temperature, and is thick type of soup.

Roasted pork fillet.

Ramen noodles.

This black oil is 'Mah-yu' that is oil made from deep fried garlic.

Thanks, my friend! Yummy!!!

Steamed chicken breasts with fresh vegetables

Flaxseed oil and soy sauce on it.

Japanese white radish and Chinese cabbage dinner

Japanese white radish and ground chicken boiled with potato starch. To season with ginger, garlic, sugar, mirin and soy sauce.

A Chinese cabbage salad. Just cut a Chinese cabbage is topped with  ’Katsuobushi’ (dried bonito) and shredded 'nori' (seaweed). Put a dressing on. We use flaxseed oil and soy sauce.

 

Fried bean sprouts. Beans sprouts stir-fried with other vegetables seasoned with soy sauce, Thai fish sauce, salt and pepper.

We ate cherries that grown in Hokkaido as dessert.

Vegetables dinner

fried zucchini

vegetables soup

mimosa salad

Lamp and Pork shabu-shabu

Shabu-shabu is a Japanese dish in which extremely thin slices of meat are cooked by swishing them back and forth several times in dashi boiled in a pot, dipped in sauce and eaten with boiled ingredients such as vegetables and tofu. Normally, shabu-shabu made using thin sliced beef, but this made lamb and pork.  Mutton 'ramu-shabu' and octopus 'tako-shabu' are popular in Hokkaido.

Dashi made from kelp and sake.

When put vegetables in to a pot, add some slice of garlic to dashi.

'Lamp-shabu' It is served with a sauce which is flavored with soy sauce and garlic.

'Buta(pork)-shabu' It is served with a sauce which is 'Ponzu' (a seasoning made of vinegar and the juice from a bitter orange) and grated 'daikon' (a Japanese white radish).

Octopus and fish dinner

Sliced raw Octopus.

Grilled small cod fish.

And vegetables, rice and miso soup.

'Somen' noodle with paper-thin omelet

'Somen' is a variety of thin Japanese noodles made from wheat. After boiled, chilled in cold water and then eat with a dipping sauce.

Beef and chicken dinner

Beef with garlic and broccoli and tomatoes.

Steaming chicken with sliced onion and Japanese ginger.

Japchae don

Don is a bowl of rice with food on top.
Rice covered with Japchae and the yolk of an egg.

Korean food dinner

Spicy soft tofu soup.

Japchae : This noodles made from potato starch. Flavor noodles with soy sauce,  sugar, salt, mirin, sesame oil and grated garlic.

I love Korean food because of the hot spices.

Soba noodles

Japanese leek soba noodles. It can add ground red pepper (ichimi-tougarashi) or a mixture of ground red pepper and other spices (sichimi-tougarashi) , according to one's taste.

Sunday brunch

SORANE

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