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 =)

Got A Cold

I got a bad cold since sunday, and had high fever for almost three days. I still have a headache, sore throat, and hard cough... I feel so much better now, but still on my bed and resting =( 

On my first day of cold, I wasn't feel that bad so I made a Simple Konbu Udon.

Before I get cold, I cooked Japanese style curry. I always cook too much when I make curry. So I re-use the curry to make new dish.

Beef Curry, Cole Slaw, and Boiled egg

Curry Bread, Bacon butter corn, and salad for Breakfast

Curry Udon

I have a lot of things I wanna cook after I heal and get better. First thing I wanna cook is a birthday cake for My mother, and Halloween dish for the second =)

Cookpad

Cookpad is one of the biggest recipe site in Japan. It has many recipes from everyone, and anyone can post and access to their recipe on that website. I've been posting my recipes as well, and My recipe has been chosen to one of the famous recipe! My recipe and Nickname was on the top page last week! I was just too excited and called my mom and dad. They were soo happy as well, and cooked my recipe for dinner to celebrate me with white wine. I'm so glad that I have "Lovely Parents". I've been living in Vancouver alone for almost 9 years, so I wish I can cook my parents a great meal one day =) 

My recipe is the Hawaiian Garlic Shrimp by AsahiMeal

My Mom and Dad cooked my Recipe, and Posted picture and comment on my cookpad recipe page!   Love you, Mom and Dad =)

This is the Cookpad Website: http://cookpad.com/

Cookpad has released English site as well: http://cookpad.it/

It was an Annual Vancouver Raining Season, and I was a bit being depressed!, yet this good news brought me a lot of energy and passion to Live powerfully!!!  Love cooking Life =) 

Thanks giving

Happy Thanks giving day! It was the thanks giving long weekend in Canada last week, so I invited my good friends over to my house and celebrated Thanks giving with my food. We played Mario cart and wii bowling after the dinner, enjoyed my great friday =)

Inari-sushi お稲荷さん

 (fried bean curd stuffed with vinegared rice and seasoned roots vegies)

Chinese sweet and sour meat balls

中華風肉団子

Japanese style sweet and tender simmered pork

初めて作った豚の角煮

Chinese style light pickled cucumber and bean curd

中華風きゅうりと乾燥湯葉の浅漬け

For Thanks giving monday, I went to a store called "Murata" on E. Broadway where sells Japanese Traditional kitchen supplies to shop some of dishes! I got few simple plates and sake pot there, so I made a roasted beef for thanks giving diner and enjoyed Sake with my brother =) 

My Thanks giving Lunch was the Soba

Roasted beef with three kinds of Japanese spices

(Yuzu flavored White Pepper paste, Aged chili paste, and Garlic paste)

ローストビーフ、３種の薬味を添えて

(ゆず胡椒、かんずり、おろしニンニク)

I had this dish paired with hot sake and enjoyed with my brother for Thanks giving family dinner.

収穫祭で、私の作ったローストビーフをおつまみにして兄と晩酌

I found the Kaede looking leaf when I was jogging that morning.

かえでの葉みたいなものは、早朝のジョギングで発見！

最近桂剥きを練習しているが、まだまだ下手で大根のつまが太い。

Right: Yuzu flavored white pepper from the city called "Miyazaki" where my father was born

Left: Aged chili paste from North area in Japan

I Love to cook for some events. Next event is the Halloween and excited to cook something with pumpkins! I have to curve some pumpkins, make some pumpkin cakes, and make a halloween dish... busy busy, yet too excited and already got pumpkin curving set! =)