Roll of Pork and Sprout*

  Recently I have an increased appetite so I eat something before and after my part-time job. I'm really at a loss. Please teach me the best way to lose weight and diet. Today I introduce a healthy dish.

Ingredients――*(2 portions)
・8 sliced pork
・8 macrophyll (大葉)
・1/2 sprout
・1/2 ginger
・2 tbsp of rice wine

・salt and pepper

・ponzu sauce

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1. Remove axis of macrophyll and cut in half lengthwise. Peel ginger and cut it into strips.

2. Put macrophyll and sprout on sliced poak and roll them.

3. Put ginger on the rolled poak, and sprinkle rice wine and salt&pepper. Ant then put then on microwave-safe plate.

4. Cover them with a plastic wrap and cook for 5 minutes by microwave.(600w) When they heat enough, dress ponzu sauce on them. Voila!☆

  You can cook by using a microwave only. Wow! How easy this dish is!^^ It's nice because sprout is crisp and juicy. This dish use pork, but it's very healthy. I'm sure you like it. 

Tomato Steak*

  Do you know Tomato Stake? When I heard at first, I was really surprised. Because I thought that Steak means only meat such as beef, pork, and chicken. Today I introduce "Tomato Steak". It's very simple and easy to make. It's same to ordinary meat steak.

Ingredients――*(2 portions)

・1~2 Tomato

・1 tsp of olive oil

<Avocado sauce>

・1/2 avocado

・1/2 tsp of lemon juice

・1.5 tbsp of mayonnaise

・salt and pepper

・dry parsley

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1. Remove hull of tomato and slice it. (2 cm) Pare avocado and crush it by fork. Mix ingredients of sauce.

2. Heat olive oil in the pan. Heat both sides of tomato, seasoning with salt and pepper.

3. Put tomato on dish and put avocado sauce on it. Then put dry parsley. That's all!

  It was a nice and healthy dish. I had not experienced such as this dish. Tomato Stake is a light meal so I think it is nice for women, especially for dieting women but it is not enough to be satisfied for men. It is a nice appetizer. And I like texture of avocado so it may be good to cut avocado into small cubes and mix them in avocado sauce. And tomato tends to break up so you had better heat it quickly at high heat. It is a important point!

Vegitable pot-au-feu(ポトフ)*

  Hello! In every morning and every night, it's cold... so I wanted to eat some warm dishes. Today I introduce vegitable pot-au-feu. (^0^)/ I use microwave oven so it's very easy and we can cook it in busy mornings.

Ingredients――* (2 portions)

・boston butt slice 200g

・a carot

・a onion

・half od cabbage

・two potatos

・4~5 sausages

<Consomme soup>

・1.5 tablespoons of consomme soup mix

・water 400cc

・salt and pepper

・black pepper

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1. Place meat under hot water in order to remove extra fat and smell.

2. Cut carot and potato into big size. Heat them in a microwave oven for 2~3 minute (500w).

3. Put 1, 2, and sausages into a microwave-safe plate. Pour consomme soup and salt and pepper.

4. Cover them with a plastic wrap. (You may add herbs) Make air vents in the wrap and heat them in a microwave oven about 10 minutes (500w). Voila!☆

You may put parsley and black pepper on the top.

This pot-au-feu is very easy because you can use microwave oven. It takes only a few minutes. It's very delicious for the tastes of vegetables and we can be warm. If you like vegitables, you could add broccoli and cabbage etc. It's getting more delicious for vegitables! I'm sure you like this!

*Crispy Potato*

Hello everyone! Recently I'm addicting potato dishes. When I take a break at my part-time job, I eat fried potato at a stand of theater which I work. So today I introduce a potato dish that we can make easyily at home. It's Crispy Potato! It's a little different to fried potato, but similar to it.

Ingredient――*

・2 Potato

・1/3 onion

・1 piece garlic

・a cup of breadcrumb

・dry parsley

・salt

・pepper

・2 tsp salad oil

・butter 20g

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1. Peel potato and cut it into half-moons. (2~3 millmeters in thickness)

 Slice onion, and cut garlic into small pieces.

2. Boil potato in boild water and drain with a colander as you can prick it by spit easily.

3. Heat salad oil and garlic, add onion after they smelled. And then add potato.

4. After potato is coated with the oil, add butter and breadcrumbs, and saute them at low heat, paddling by wooden spatula.

5. When breadcrumbs become crispy, add dry parsley and then season with salt and pepper. 

Arrange them on dish, and voila!☆





 Maybe you have not eaten like this dish, it's new and unique in texture. It's very crispy by breadcrumbs, and a little different to fried potato. I think it is nice as appetizer.

Broccoli gratin*

*Broccoli gratin*
a broccoli, boneless chicken leg, 1/4 onion, milk(100ml), pizza cheese 40g, butter 10g, salt, salt&pepper, black pepper

1. Segment broccoli into small parts. Cut boneless chicken leg for proper size and add some salt and pepper. Slice the onion lengthwise. Preheat the oven to two hundreds thirty degrees.
2. Boil a broccoli in boiling water with some salt (about 1~2 minutes), drain in a colander.
3. Heat the butter and saute onion until wilted. Add chicken and saute until it becomes brown and add broccoli and milk. After boiling up, add salt and pepper to taste and turn off the heat.
4.Put 2 into heat-resistant container and put cheese over them. Oven bake them in 10~12 minutes. Voila!☆

I used broccoli and chicken in this time, but you can use a lot of cooking ingredient. For example, they are mushroom, enokidake mushroom, bacon, potato, asparagus, shrimps and many others! You can enjoy your choice of variation. Let's try and please tell me your favorite one!

Clam Chowder*

Hello, everyone! Recently it's getting colder so I introduce a soup which make us warm.

*Clam Chowder*
3 (6.5 ounce) cans minced clams ,1 cup minced onion, 1 cup diced celery, 2 cups cubed potatoes, 1 cup diced carrots, 3/4 cup butter, 3/4 cup all-purpose flour, 1 quart half-and-half cream, 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar,1 1/2 teaspoons salt, ground black pepper to taste

1. Drain juice from clams into a large pot over the onions, celery, potatoes and carrots. Add water to cover and cook over medium heat until tender.

2.Meanwhile, in a large, heavy saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat. Whisk in flour until smooth. Whisk in cream and stir constantly until thick and smooth. Stir in vegetables and clam juice and heat them.
◎Point◎Do not boil.

3.Stir in clams just before serving. If they cook too much they get tough. When clams are heated through, stir in vinegar, and season with salt and pepper. Voila!

Ginger chicken*

Last time I introduced "Ginger rice", so I introduce main dish used ginger. Today's menu is Ginger chicken. It's very easy dish. You only soak and roast!

*Ginger chicken* 
Two big boneless chicken legs, a tablespoonful of grated ginger, a tablespoonful of grated onion, a tablespoonful salad oil, half tablespoonfuls of rice wine, two tablespoonfuls of sweet cooking rice wine, two tablespoonfuls of soy sauce

1. Remove the extra fat, cut half and half. Prick the chicken skin with a fork.
2. Mix all ingredients of sauce, soak chickens in it for 20 minutes at normal temperature.
3. Take out chickens from the sauce and drain off the water with kitchen papers. And then heat a flying pan, grill on side of skin. Reduce heat, grill them until brown on the top (about 3 minutes). Flip them and do just the same.
4. Drain chickens on kitchen paper, and boil up them with that sauce. Voila!☆

◎Point◎Grill on side of chicken skin!

That's all ^^! It is nice to shake sesame on the top or add some vegetables such as asparagus and broccoli according your taste.

Ginger rice*

Today's main cooking ingredient is ginger! I introduce ginger dishes. Ginger is useful for stomachache, decline of fever,prevent nausea. Besides ginger improves our metabolism and keeps our body temperature so it's useful for cold, stomach ache, and excessive sensitivity to cold. Ginger is incredible food!

*Ginger rice*
Ground pork or poultry 60g, half of Kaiware-daikon, Japanese basil, a tablespoonful of  ginger, a half cup of Welsh onion, a tablespoonful of Garlic, a red pepper, a tablespoonful of sesame oil, a teaspoon of soy sauce, a teaspoon of salt, two bowls of rice

1. Cut fine kaiware-daikon, Japanese basil, ginger, Welsh onion, garlic, and red pepper.
2. Put sesame oil into a fly pan and heat it over medium heat. Saute garlic and red pepper in the oil until they are aromatic and add ground pork.
3.Turn the heat off, mix vegetables of 1 into 2. Put in salt and soy sauce. Finally put rice into 2 and mix them. Voila!☆

Wasabi dishes part 2*

I introduce other Wasabi dish this time. It's too easy for me so I can cook soon without recipe (^^) But this dish may be unseasonal. Because it's getting colder recently...but it's OK! The fact remains that this dish is nice!

*piquante chilled tofu with tomato*

a tomato, five or six boiled soybeans, one eighth onions, a tofu (bean curd), two Japanese basils,  two tablespoonfuls of salad oil

<A>a tablespoonful of vinegar, a teaspoon of soy sauce, a pinch of salt  Wasabi 

1. Cut a tomato into 1cm cubes, Boil soybeans with salt and dehull them. Cut onions into small pieces.

2. Mix <A> well and add onion and salad oil into it. And toss well～!
3. Toss tomato and 2.
4. Put tofu on dish and put 3 on tofu. Finally garnish julienne-strip Japanese basil. Voila!

I had not eaten tofu with vegetable. I can't come up with this idea that combinations of tofu, tomato, and Japanese soybeans. This dish looks beautiful and good for our health. Please try them yourself☆!

Wasabi dishes*

I think what kind of people good at cooking and how can I do for improving my cooking skill. I found that people who have variety of dishes may be expert at cooking. So I decided one foodstuff or easoning and consider menu. By doing this, I may be able to use foods perfectly and learn nice chemistry between foods!

Today I introduce some easily dishes using Wasabi (Japanese horseradish).

*Octopus and cucumber marinated food with Wasabi*

Boiled octopus 200g, one cucumber, a tablespoonful of sugared vinegar, Wasabi

1.Cut boiled octopus to the proper size.

2.Grate a cucumber.
3.Add wasabi and sugared vinegar into 2. And then dress 1 in them.
That's all! It's easy for me!♪

It is important to learn nice chemistry between foods like octopus and cucumber. Next I introduce Wasabi dishes too.

Creative the omelet

Last time around, I produced Japanese omelet. Today, I'm going to arrange omelets into various types!

*Natto(fermented soybeans) version*
〇ingredients〇
two eggs, natto(1 pack), grated radish, chopped laver, sliced Welsh onion, ponzu sauce 

1.Beat two eggs with half of natto and roll them in same way I introduce last time.
2.Let's make a sauce!
  Add to rest of natto and grated radish into ponzu sauce. Then put it on the natto omelet with sliced welsh onion and chopped laver.

*Mentaiko(cod vum) version*
1.Before rolling the egg, put 4~5 sliced mentaiko (about 30g) and sliced small welsh onion on it. Then roll together. That's all! It's too easy!

A lot of other version...you can use millet flack, tuna, hijiki, vegetables such as spinach. When you master Japanese omelet, you can enjoy many kinds of them. You can find your original omelet!☆ You are fuel the spark of imagination so that you can enjoy thinking about cook. Please find out  nice chemistry between foods. I will paste pictures on this blog after cooking them.

Japanese omelet*

Today I produce Japanese omelet(・∀・) In my case, Japanese omelet was often packed a box lunch. My mother and friends told me that it's simple and easy to cook but... I burned the eggs and couldn't wad them.

1. Beat two eggs vigorously well-blended and add some salt.
2.Heat a pan until smoke rises.(over medium heat near low heat) Put oil in the pan (low heat) and turn off the heat when heated enough.
3.While turning off the heat, pour about one third beaten egg into the pan and swirl then around in it to go around fully. If you pick up the egg, it doesn't stick to the pan, roll them so as not to form any clearance.
◎Point◎Raise the handle to tilt the pan to the hand, you can roll easily.
4.Turn on the heat (low heat), move rolled eggs to the hand and pour rest of beaten egg toward a direction you roll.
◎Point◎If the egg is likely to stiff completely, pull the pan away from the heat.

When you finished to roll them, and voila!☆
I rolled the egg in 2 parts in this time but you may do in 3 parts.

*First day*

Hello( ^ O ^ )  I like cooking but I cannot cook well. I don't know how to cook and recipes. I can only wash rice and boil it. I want to cook better so I think and introduce how to improve in cooking for awkward people like me. "I can't cook!" "I don't know why I fail in cooking." "I'm anxious!" This blog is for these people.
I write about points we tend to fail with basic dishes. I hope we get good at cooking.