Laver★Nori!!!

To be honest...,
although I am a Japanese...,
I dont like rice so much..X'(

I'm not sure the reason ,but I dont like its taste which is slightly sweet.
Of course I know that the slightly sweet tase is very delicious for many people,
but it's not for me.
However, rice is really nutritious and it is kind of necessary for a Japanese diet,
so I always cook rice such as omu-rice or fried-rice, put some thing to rice such as Natto, curry or ume boshi.

One of my favorite items which I eat with rice is LAVER:)
Recently, I'm crazy for Korean laver. Have you ever tried it?
It is a sesame oil flavored with salt. It smells so good!!

I highly highly recommend my original recipe.
It's very easy to cook, so please please please try!!

★Recipe★
Preparation
・a bowl of rice
・an egg
・some peice of green onion
・Korean laver

How to cook
1. mix an egg with rice (make TKG)
2.add green onion and Korean laver

That's it!!
It'll be better if you add say sauce or sesame oil etc according to your preference.

I think laver is very unique food and it is been familier in only East Asia.
Foreigners tend to be surprised or feel wierd because of the color, black.
Although I like laver and it is very delicious, I feel awkward when they feel wierd about it.
anyway I am Japanese★!

saltimbocca★Italian

I cooked Saltimbocca for dinner today.

It's an Italian dish and "Saltimbocca" means "jumping into a mouth" in Italian.

Can you guess why it is called Saltimbocca which means "jumping into a mouth"?

The answer is that it is very very very easy to cook.

You can cook it soooo quickly, so it will jump into your mouth:D

Here is the recipe★

1. 2-3 slices of Pork (you can use chicken instead of pork)

2. sauce (I used ready-made sauce this time)

3. olive oil

1. put salt and pepper to pork

2.put one spoon of olive oil to a pan

3. fry pork

4. put sauce into a pan and simmer for 2 min.

5.DONE!!

It's very easy and quick isn't it?

It was the first time to cook Saltimbocca.

It was little bit spicy because of pepper, but so delicious:)

I wanna try many kind of dishes from all over the world!!

Mango★

Hi guys!!


Summer is coming~





It's really really hot these days, and some people might not want to eat anynithing...


However, even if you wanna eat nothing, you should get nutrition to overcome the heat!!





Fruits:) ←Good idea★


Even if you want to eat cold thing such as Ice cream, kaki-gori, dont eat them too much.


Let's eat fruits!!





When it comes to fruits in summer, what do you think of??


Water melon?? Peach??





What about mango??





I had been thinking it was water melon, but recently, I think of mango as a fruit in summer:D





The reason why I think of mango for a fruit in summer, the store that I work for has a lot of mango product in summer.





Mango ice bar, dried mango, mango pudding, mango juice, mango puree etc...


I see a lot of mango products at the store and it makes me think summer is coming!!

My favorite restaurant:)♥

I'm gonna introduce my favorite restaurant in the world♥

Its name is "Cafe Coco Tanta", and it's located in Fuji city in Shizuoka.

I remember clearly that I went to the restaurant for the first time.

When I was a freshman, I got a driver's licence. Then, I drove to there with my friend.

It was also first time to drive with my friend.

This is the outside of the restaurant.

It looks a lovely house in the Europe♥

This is the inside. There are many large windows,

so there are lots of lights there.

The restaurant is a buffet style.

At first, you have to choose 60minutes course or 90minutes course.

Next, you have to choose one meal with dessert, or only dessert.

You can eat cake as possible as you can within time you chose!!

Actually, last Wednesday, the day I tried to be a vegitarian, I went there with my mom.

We ate spaghetti with mushroom sauce, and I ate four pieces of cake★

I ate pudding, raspberry tart, cheese cake, and chocolate cake. I tried Lacto-Ovo:D

I was so full when I ate all of them, so I didn't feel that being a vegitarian was difficult:Dhaha

Please look at these pictures!!

They are some of food from the menu.

Did they make you go there??

When I go back to my hometown, I generally go there.

The repertoire of cake are always changed, so you can enjoyed variety of cake whenever.

Do you have some favorite restaurant??

Wedding cake★

Hi guys:)

It's June! Time flies!!
Are you depressed by the rainy season?

When it comes to June, I always come up with "June Bride"
I guess many girls want to have a wedding in June because it said that a bride who has a wedding in June will become happy.
Then, what does it derive from?

It derives from Rome myth.
In English, "June" comes from the name of Jupiter's wife, "June".
She was a god of marrige, so it has been said that the couple that get married in June will become happy. That's why a bride who get married in June is called "June Bride".

One of important events of wedding is cake-cut.
There are some origins of it, for example, Greek myths or tradditional custom in Europe.

The ordinary wedding cake had just one layer.
The American style is rectangle with one layer.
British style is usually circle with three layer, which is main streem in Japan.
French style is called Croque en Bouche.

Croque en Bouche


British style 　　　　　　　　Amerian style

















I was surprised because there are different styles of wedding cake.
I want Croque en bouche for my wedding because it is kind of rarein Japan and looks cool:)
However, I do not want to give a bite of cake to my husband in front of the guests.
It's relly ashamed!!



What kind of wedding do you want to have in the future??

Thanks for reading my blog!!

Almond jelly♥

Hi everyone!!

Do you like Alomond jelly??

Almond jelly?! What's that?!

If you have not heard it, you might be confused,

but you definitely know it!!

It's "Annin-dofu".

Almond jelly is sweet and it is known as a chinese dessert in Japan.

However, it has been used as remedy in China.

Alomond jelly is made from seed of apricot which can be a medicine for asthma.

The seed is pounded to make almond jelly, but it taste really really bitter, so it is flavored sweeter to eat. It is Almond jelly.

Actually, Almond jelly sold in Japan don't contain that bitter powder because it is not used for remedy but as a dessert, it contains almond essence instead of it. That's why it is called "Almond Jelly".

The reason why alomond essence is used instead of it is the flavor of almond and apricot is similar.

In addition, it's so simple to make it at home.

I'll get the recipe and try to make it soon:)

Japanese apricot

Hi everyone!!
Today I'm going to talk about "Japanese apricot"(ume!!).

Do you like it??I love it:)
However, the taste is very very sour, so foreigners tend to hate it.

2 years ago, I had an American friend who was a student at KUIS.
One day, he asked me to teach him how to cook rice balls. (It is pretty easy tho:Dhaha)
Then we went to a grocery store to get some ingredients for the rice balls.

Ususally, salmon, okaka, kombu, or of cource Japanese apricot are standard ingredients for
rice balls.

We got them, and started to make rice balls at home.
It was first time to eat Japanese apricot for him, and it killed him!!

It surprised him and he spit it...
I was pretty shocked because I love Japanese apricot and I was proud of it as a Japanese. lol
But he SPIT it... I felt kind of culture shock, but it was interesting.

Anyway, I love Japanese apricot.
We can eat as picled ume, jam and there are a lot of ways to eat it.

It includes much citric acid, and it maked our body fine!!
We should eat it in summer!!

Thank you for reading my blog!!

Fujinomiya Yakisoba

Hi everyone!!

Have you ever heard or eaten "Fujinomiya Yakisoba"?
Fujinomiya is my hometown and it is located on the east of Shizuoka.

Fujinomiya Yakisoba is little bit different from regular Yakisoba.

Then, what's the difference?

1. Its noodle is slightly harder than regular one (kind of rubbery...)
and only two companies, "Marumo" and "Kano-ya" are producing the noodle.

⇩Kano-ya ⇩Marumo

2. It includes Niku-kasu that are peaces of fried meat, and they are crunchy

(History)

In 2000, "Fujinomiya Yakisoba Gakkai" which is an organization for promoting Fujinomiya Yakisoba. They challenged The Guiness Book of World Records by making Yakisoba for 3776 people. Can you guess the meaning of 3776? This number is the hight of Mt Fuji. As you may know, Mt Fuji is located on part of Fujinomiya city, so they challenged making Yakisoba for 3776 people. At that time, they used 6m long hot plate. I ate this Yakisoba:) In 2006, Fujinomiya Yakisoba was awarded for the first "B-1 Grand Prix", and then it was awarded for the second "B-1 Grand Prix" in 2007. Since then, it has been becoming famous popular.

There are a lot of restaurants that serve "Fujinomiya Yakisoba" everywhere in Fujinoiya.

If you have a chance to go to there, find the flag of "Fujinomiya Yakisoba" and eat!!

Thank you for reading my blog!!

macaron

Today, I'm going to talk about "macaron".

Have you ever watched "Marie Antoinette"?

That's my favorite one and the scenes which I like are

that Marie is eating sweets.

In 1770, Marie got married to Louis Augesto who was a prince in France.
However, Marie was sort of isolated because she was from Austria.
Although she found herself alone, there were always so beautiful dresses,

shoes, jewelies and SWEETS around her.

When I watched it for the first time(5-6years ago?),

I was curious about colorful circle things like cookies.

They were macaron:)

Macaron is a confection which is like sandwich.

Colored cookies sand butter cream or jam.

Cookies are made from egg whites, icing sugar,

granulated sugar, almond powder or ground almond, and food coloring.

Macaron is tradittional food in France and it has a long history.

It said that macarons were created in Frence in 791.

However, there are a lot of opimion about its origin.

I felt the food is part of its country's history

and it has been loved so long long time.

Quesadilla★Mexican

Hola!!

Today, I cooked "Quesadilla" which is Mexican food:)

Do you like Mexican food?

I love Mexican food♥　
Even though I'm not good at spicy food,

I like Mexican type of spicy taste like salsa sauce.

Then, let's cook "Quesadilla"!!

[Preparation for 1 person]

Tortilla :2 sheets

green pepper:1/4

yellow pepper:1/4

chedder cheese
chicken(boiled): 10~20g

salsa sauce: 3 spoons

butter:5g

1. put butter in a pan and fry 1 sheet of tortilla quickly

2. spread some pieces of chicken, yellow pepper, green pepper and chedder cheese on half of the tortilla, and fry it for 30 sec.

3. fold it into half

4. turn it over and fry both sides

5. cut it into three and serve them on a plate

6. dip into salsa sauce and eat:)!!!

Do you wanna try it??:D

If you are not good at spicy food, you should try mild salsa sauce

or you do like spicy one, you should try hot one.

You can add anything you like, for example, bacon, onion, or tomato etc.

It's very easy cooking and so tasty!!

I highly recommend it for you.

Thank you for reading my blog!!
Adios!!

Potato noodle ★Korean

Hi, everyone:)

I cooked this!!!

This is a "potato noodle" from Korea.

Potato noodle is made of potato and the noodle is really soft and its color is kind of clear white. The soup is little bit hot but it's very delicious!!

It takes about 15min and it's really easy to cook.

I'm going to introduce the recipe for you;)

[Preparation]

-Potato noodle(It has powder soup)

-some slices of pork

-beansprouts

-shiitake mushroom

-green onion

-an egg

★You can put anything you like!!

Okay then, let's cook!!

1.　boil water

2.　put some slices of pork and shiitake mushroom into the pot and boil them

3.　put potato noodle and soup into the pot and boil them for 3 minutes

4.　3 minutes later, put beansprouts and an egg into the pot and boil them for 1 minute

5.　serve it in a bowl and put green onions

6. EAT♥♥♥

Oh!! You might want something to drink!!

I recomend pomegranate vinegar juice♥　It's from Korea, too.

*I'm sorry but I don't know how to change the direction...

The bottle in the middle is pomegranate vinegar.

It's said it's very good for your health especially for your beauty♥

You can mix it with the water, milk, or pop, eat with yoghuｒt etc.

I like drinking it with pop.

If you are interested in Korean food, you should try

"potato noodle" and "pomegranate vinegar" soon!!

Thank you for reading my blog.

Bye bye★

Hello!!

Hi, guys:)

I'm Mai and from Shizuoka.

My favorite food is HARIBO. Do you like it??

My family name is HIRATA.

HARIBO and HIRATA.

It sounds like kind of similar, doesn't it? haha:D

That's why I named my blog HIRABO' kitchen.


I took this course because I like eating of course

and I'm interested in foreign countries' food.

I'm going to try to cook some new recipe from different countries,

and put them on this blog:)


Nice to see you, everyone!!