Bosa Italian Market

Finally, I visited Bosa market again!! Last time I shopped there was in the spring so I was just too excited and I bought bunch of ingredients that only sells at the Italian market =) 

I got Buccatini pasta, Fresh Italian sausage, Pancetta, Chanterelle mushroom, Caciocavallo cheese, and Pecorino Romano =)

I made my favorite Buccatini Amatriciana =) 

I wrote about My Buccatini Amatriciana Recipe Before, so Please try it!

Recipes

I got a question about my recipe for the X'mas dinner, so I'm going to post my Recipe of the Chicken legs today. In the most of my cooking, I don't measure exact amount of the ingredients so I will roughly write the amount. 

Simple Japanese style chicken Legs

Ingredients:  2 Chicken thigh 

          Marinating Sauce:  Grated Garlic 1 tbl spoon

                                       Grated Ginger 1 tbl spoon

                   　　　        Cooking sake  3 tbl spoon

                                       (you can use the white wine instead)

                                       Soy sauce 5 tbl spoon

                                       Maple syrup 3 tbl spoon 

                                       (you can use honey instead)

                                       Bay Leaf

   

Step 1: Mix all the ingredients of Marinating Sauce in a plastic Ziploc bag and shake and mix well

Step 2: Add chicken thighs and Marinate over night (personally prefer marinate the chicken for 2 nights)

Step 3: Take out the Chicken and roast on the oven at 425F for 30 min

                                         Enjoy my Recipe =)                                             

Happy New Year

Good Bye 2011, and Hello 2012! I love this New Year's Holiday season so much, because it is the only time that I can cook Japanese traditional New Year's dishes =) The special meal for the holiday called "Osechi" is very creative, and each one of the food has specific meaning and wishes. For instance, Steamed bended Shrimp images an old men bent with age, and it wishes to live long. If you want to make whole set of the Osechi it might take 3 to 5 days, so I made a part of it.

The dish above is called "Toshi Koshi Soba"(Year-end Soba). It is also a custom food in Japan, and I personally like soba with shrimp tempura so I had a Tempura soba.

Osechi on the Plate

(Marinated Quail's egg, Sake Steamed Shrimp, Karashi mustard and Wasabi lotus root, Datemaki, Namasu (pickled radish and carrot), Kuri Kinton)  

Osechi in the Box

Kamaboko (red and white fish cake), Sweet Black beans, Sake Steamed bended Shrimp,Kuri Kinton 

Ikura, Datemaki, Rolled stewed Konbu, Namasu

Chikuzenni

     

Ozouni (Traditional soup with rice cake)

Rose Sushi (Salmon and Uni)

My New Year's Resolution is to cook more of better and Yummy food!!
Happy New Year to the whole world =)

Merry Christmas

☆Merry Christmas☆ to the whole world!! and I wish all of my family and friends in the all over the world is happy and enjoying the X'mas=) 

For my X'mas Eve, I had a lunch with my best friend mark at the Moxi's. For 25th, I had a family dinner with my brother and Also my dady and momy by Skype! The X'mas dinner menu is here↓

Christmas Tree Edamame Potage with a Star Crouton

(クリスマスツリー枝豆ポタージュ 星のクルトンを添え）

Dill Cream Cheese and Smoked Salmon Appe

(ディルクリームチーズとスモークサーモンの前菜）

X'mas Chicken Plate: the chicken marinated for 2 nights

(二日間漬け込んだチキンのプレート）

X'mas tree cheese cake and Strawberry Santa

(クリスマスツリーチーズケーキとイチゴのサンタさん）

I really had a great Christmas this year again! Only few days left till 2012 so I gotta enjoy the 2011=) 

Winter Arrival

Time flies and it's already December now...  The winter in Vancouver is Freezing this year! The Good news is the local mountain is ready for snowboarding since mid November, but the Bad news is the cold winter makes people weak and most people around me are suffering from sicknesses.  Since its freezing winter this year, I invited my friends and my brother to my Hot Pot dinner.

First Hot Pot I made was miso based soften beef shank hot pot

Second Hot Pot was the Shio Chanko Hot Pot

(Chicken stock and pinch of salt)

I'm gonna invite more friends to have Hot Pot party because Hot Pot will warm you up both physically and Psychologically =)

Healthy and Cheap Recipe

I often create my original recipe which is Healthy, Cheap, and still taste good. Here is one of my Okonomiyaki style Tofu Recipe that I made from the ingredients I had in my fridge last week. 

Okonomiyaki style tofu

お好み焼き風ふわっとろ豆腐

I'll post the Recipe in Japanese this time because it is pretty hard for me to explain all the ingredients in English.

材料：（４人前）

豆腐１丁　４００g

パン粉　１カップ

小ネギ　３本

片栗粉　大さじ１

粉末だし　ひとつまみ

塩　小さじ１／２

作り方

１：電子レンジにかけて、しっかり水切りした豆腐をほぐす

２：パン粉をいれ、よく練る

３：片栗粉、塩、粉末だし、小ネギをいれてもう一度混ぜる

３：フライパンに油をひき、ふたをして両面焦げ目ができるまで焼く

４：お好み焼きと同じようにソースとマヨネーズをかけて、トッピングをして

出来上がり =)

Hope you enjoy my recipe =)

Thrift Recipe

I like to cook something special and fancy, but also using cheap ingredients to create cheap and good food is one of the good way to enjoy my daily cooking.  

Somen chanpuru

 残り物野菜のそうめんチャンプルー

安くて、お腹にたまる！

葱油餅(ツォンヨウピン)

台湾の家庭料理

小麦粉とネギがあれば、安く作れる最高のおやつ！

Natto Cold Noodle

ふわっふわっ冷製うどん

安くて、健康な一品！

Enjoying cooking or eating doesn't only means buying expensive ingredients to cook some fancy food, but it also means that making tasty food from cheap ingredients. It takes a bit effort to create a thrift recipe, but will give you confidence of your cooking after =)