Osechi (New year food)

Cristmas comming soon but I skip the X'mas and I'd like to tell a New Year food "Osechi".

Do you like Osechi? I like it. I usually buy it at store or my grandmother made some osechi items for families.

Today I made Osechi at cooking school. It was a first time for me to make osechi. It was a good experience because I found that making osechi was not so difficult.

I'd like to introduce some items of osechi.

Zoni: it is a soup including rice cake and it is celeblating food of Yew year. there are 2 kinds when it is distributed roughly, kansai style and kanto style. The features of kansai's are included a round rice cake and miso soup. On the other hands, kanto's are incleded a square rice cake and clear soup. However, there are many kinds of zoni because there are many home tastes.

Namasu(cool down): it is vegetasbles with dressing of the vinegar. The main vegetable is Japanese radish. it means the prosperity of house. New year's namasu is usually made with white and red color food like Japanese radish and carrot. White color means the cleanliness and red color means the sun and pulse.

Kuromame(black soybean): it is food boild and seasoned of the black soybean. there is a with to work with health.


If you make Osechi yourself and you have some recipe of Oseechi, please tell me.

Okonomiyaki (a Japanese-style pancake)

Do you like an okonomiyaki?
I like it.

You know there are 2 styles of the okonomiyaki,Kansai-style and Hiroshima-style.
Hiroshima-style includes nudles in it. it is a diferrent point between Kansai-style and Hiroshima-style.

Which okonomiyaki do you like?
I like both okonomiyaki but I like the Hiroshima-style than Kansai-style.

I went to Kotetsu. it was an okonomiyaki restaurant. It is located near the Sakurajyosui station in the Keio line. It is a provate management shop.



I ate the Hiroshima-style's okonomiyaki. It was very delicious. in adittion, chef and shop assistant were very kind. I'd like to go to this shop again.

If you get interested in this shop please go there.

Japanese hot pot (Nabe)

Winter came over.
I don't like a cold day but a hot pot meal is delicious on a cold day.

Do you like a hot pot? I love it so much.
I'd like to introduce some kinds of hot pot meal.





Yose-nabe: it is one of the famous hot pot. Yose means putting togerther. therefore we can put everything like meat, fish, tofu and vegetable in it.

Chanko-nabe: it was original served only Sumo wrestler to gain weight. it usually contain meatball, chicken, vegetables and so on.

Kimchi-nabe: it is used kimchi and hot taste. It contain kimchi, tofu, pork, enoki mashroom, eryngii and vegetables(Chainese cabbage, leek, bean sprouts) in my home. It is very delicious and my favorite hot pot. Please eat kimchi-ramen after eating hot pot.

Soybean milk-nabe: it is soybean milk taste hot pot. there is a soybean isoflavone and it has a good effect for our skin so this hot pot is popular with women.



Curry-nabe: it is curry soup hot pot. It contain potato, carrot, cabbage, pork, enoki mashroom and so on. In my home case, it contain sausage. I recommend you to make curry rissotto after eating and please cheese on it. It is good!

Besides, there are a lot of hot pot in Japan like Tomato-nabe. I like hot pot because I can take a lot of vegetables from it and it's taste is nice and it is easy to cook.

Which hot pot do you like? and If you have any unique hot pot please tell me.

Ikameshi

Hello:)
Today I'll write one of my cooking experiences at ABC cooking studio.

I made Ikameshi (stuffed squid) at my cooking school. It was a first time to cut up the squid so I was a little nervous to make Ikameshi and on the other hands, I was looking forward to making it because I wanted learn how to make Ikameshi.

When I saw the squid, I felt it looked at me so I was a little afraid of it but I tried making Ikameshi. I also thought I noticed the legs of it were different length, two of them were long but the others were short!! I was surprised about it because I thought the legs were same length. I could learn the squid.

How to make: Removing the internal and squid's legs and only using the body of it to make Ikameshi and putting mochi-rice (glutinous rice) into squid. And then boiling it with suger and soup based soy sause.

Ikameshi is the local food in Hokkaido and there is a famous for a box lunch on trains or stations. Ikameshi lunch box was born in 1941 in Morimachi in Hokkaido but it also is famous in Hakodate. In addition, Ikameshi had been No.1 of the national tournament about Lunch box at stations in Japan.

It' taste is salty-sweet and very delicious. If you are interested in Ikameshi, please try it.

ANDELSEN

Do you know "ANDELSEN"?

It is a backery. The bread of the shop makes a model of Denmark and ANDELSEN made a Danish pastry for the first time in Japan.

I work part-time in this shop since a university admission and I like ANDELSEN's breads so I'd like to introduce some items.

This upper picture is a "dark cherry" and it is one of the basic popular items. It is a Denish pestry and it features mild texture of the Denish and mild custard and 4 large cherries. It is sweet and delicious, especially the bread hot from the oven!!

This is a "Walnut bread". There are lots of walnuts in the bread. It also is popular so many people buy it. If you like walnut, please check it and I recommend you to toast it and spread butter on it when you eat it. I think this way is the best to eat.

This is "cheese roll". This item was broadcasted on TV. Do you know "Onegai ranking"(request ranking)? This roll got a perfect score and became No.1 in ANDELSEN. I like it's rich cheese flavor. Please eat it at dinner.

It is "Banana cake" and my favorite bread in ANDELSEN. When I am hungry, I always eat it. I love it. It includes walnut so you can enjoy the taste of banana and walnut. I'd like you to eat with tea at your refreshment time.

I work at Chiba perie near JR Chiba station. When you are near Chiba station, please drop in.

HP:http://www.andersen.co.jp/andersen/

Decorated sushi roll

Sushi is a famous Japanese food and many people love it. Today, I'd like to tell you my sushi cooking.

I made decorated sushi roll at cooking school. It was a first time to make it but it wasn't difficult and I could enjoy making it

Cooking ingredients
200g rice

(Divide it to 1/2 and 1/8×4)
1 table spoon sushi vinegar
1 cheese kamaboko
1/2 fish sausage
1/8 toasted nori×4
1/2 toasted nori
(Use 1 sheet toasted nori: cut it to 1/2 and 1/8×4)

Material

A bamboo mat that can be rolled up

Direction
1. poor 1 table spoon sushi vinegar into hot rice and mix them

2. put 1/8 rice on the 1/8 nori and make the shape of eyebrow

3. wrap kamaboko with 1/8 nori

4. wrap fish sausage with 1/8 nori

5. put 1/2 rice on the 1/2 nori and extend rice

6. make a stick to use 1/8 rice and place it to center

7. place eyebrow pieces next to 6

8. place nose piece on 6

9. cover nose with 1/8 rice

10.put mouth piece on 9

11.place and extend remaining rice on 10

12.roll it up with bamboo mat

13.cut it into 4 pieces

14.make eyes with nori

This sushi roll's topic is smile, fish sausage stands for smile mouth.

I thought decorated sushi roll was not only delicious but also cute appearance so I enjoyed 2 times. It made me happy and smile face made me smile. I'd like to make it again.

There are many styles of decorated sushi roll and there are many recipes on the website.
ex) flower, character and so on

If you are interested in decorated sushi roll, please check and make it.

Korean Town in Shin-Okubo

Do you like Korean food?

I went to Korean town in Shin-Okubo with my friends . It was first time for me and I like Korean food so I was looking forward to going there.

We went there on October 18th so it was weekday but Korean town was very crowded. There were many people who like Korean food and culture.


We ate lunch at "Pun gum shop (プングム店)".

There was a restaurant of the lunch buffet style. We could eat some Korean food like kimchi, bibimbap, toppokki (Korean stewed rice cake), samgyeopsal (slice of pork) and so on. We also had a free drink. The price was 1,200 yen (90 min).

These are very delicious.

I have been to Korea last year and I ate some food there. These were very hot especially toppokki so I drank a lot of water. On the other hands, this restaurant foods were not too hot so I could enjoy eating. Even if you are not good at hot food, you can eat.

If you want to try eating Korean food, please go to Korean town. You can enjoy a travel to Korea in Japan.

Natural food buffet "Nanoha"

Do you know a restaurant of Nanoha?
It is a natural food restaurant near Kaihin-makuhari station and it is one of my favorite restaurants. There is buffet style so all you can eat.

I went there with my friends on October 10th. I had a good time.
Today I'll introduce my food report at Nanoha.



There are about 60 kinds of dishes, and the main dishes are Japanese food like sushi and tempura but not only Japanese food, there are some foreign foods and Chinese foods. The feature of this restaurant has many dishes using seasonal vegetables. when I went there, there were many pumpkin and sweet potato foods because of autumn foods.

The concept of this restaurant is "Peace of mind, safety and health" so food is very healthy. you can enjoy healthful food.





I enjoyed eating dishes because there are many vegetable's foods. I like vegetable foods and I think they are healthy and good for health. This restaurant foods were so delicious.

I was full but there should be a room for some desserts. These were also delicious.



Recently, there is a obesity problem around the world. However, I think that there are not so many obesity people in Japan. The reason is that Japanese food is healthy. Japanese dishes are used many vegetables. I think it because there are many vegetable dishes at this restaurant. Japanese have many recipes using vegetable. It is good for our health.

If you are interested in Nanoha, I really recommend you to go there. You may be satisfied with healthy foods. When you go there, please bring a coupon and then you can get a discount. you can get it online.



Shop information

☆Time
　　Lunch : 11:00~16:00(Entering a shop until 14:30)
　　Dinner: 17:00~23:00(Entering a shop until 21:30)

☆price
　　Lunch : 1,600 yen
　　Dinner: 2,300 yen

My food history

Hello! I love eating food. It makes me happy.

Do you have food likes and dislikes? Today, I'd like to introduce my food history. when I was young may be 3 years old, I like milk so much and I drink it everyday. However I gradually hate milk as growing and recently I can't drink it because I feel bad when I drink it. I don't know why I can't drink. Do you have any experience like me?

Not only I like eating but also I like cooking. when I was child my mother bought me a kid's kichen knife so I sometimes help my mother's cooking. However I'm not good at cooking so I started going to cooking schoool from this year and I enjoy learning cooking.