Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Sweets


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Originally uploaded by Ocha6
Just boiled apple and sweet potato with little water and sugar.
Oh, and lemon juice.

I thought I failed to cook this but actually it taste good. Maybe it would be good with vanilla icecream.


My problem these days is I eat too much.

I try not to buy junk food or snacks for my health and cook by myself as much as possible.
However, I found fun in cooking and it doesn't annoy me anymore.
I can cook if I want to eat even it is middle of night....

Good news is I've already had yearly health check 2 weeks ago.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Wooden plate


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Originally uploaded by Ocha6
I used wooden plate which my friend gave me.
It's good to put several meals in small portion.
Imaging how the plate would change as it's used is also fun!



友人がくれた木のお皿を使ってみた。
いろんな種類を少しずつ乗せるのにちょうど良い感じ。
使い込んだらどんな風に変わっていくのかも楽しみ!

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Arrange on dish


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Originally uploaded by Ocha6

My mother always complained to my arrangement on dish.

" Why did you choose this plate for this side dish !?"
" It doesn't look nice."


But I didn't care because I didn't chose plate for coordinate with food.
I chose plate just for size of food and access to take it out from cupboard.




However since I moved out my home and lived by myself, I have kept cooking .
As I used to cooking, I started caring about its appearance.


Visual effect was bigger than I have thought.
Now I understood what my Mom said.


New bowl and plate makes food look nice.
Red pickles improves appetite.



My next task is to develop a sense because I felt green plate is not suit this meal.
Even more, I'm wondering why I bought this plate....


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Originally uploaded by Ocha6
いつも母に言われていたことがある。

「なんでこのお皿選ぶの!?」
「おいしそうに見えないでしょ」


料理に合わせたサイズと食器棚からの取り出しやすさが重要であり、見た目なんかどうでも良かったので、そんなことを言われても一向に気にしていませんでした。


が、しかし。実家を出て一人暮らしを始めてから料理を続けているんだけど、慣れるに従って見た目も気になるようになってきた。


思っていた以上に見た目はおいしさに影響する。
母正解。


新しく買ったお皿とお椀は料理をおいしそうに見せるし、赤い漬物は食欲をわかせる。



しかしもうちょっとセンスを磨かないとダメだね。
みどりのお皿はなんとなく合ってない気がするし、その前に、なんでこのお皿を買ったんだろうという疑問が生じてきた・・・。

Monday, April 20, 2009

Fish and dish !!


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Originally uploaded by Ocha6

You don't know how I was happy when I prepared this meal.
There are 2 point I was excited.


1) I got fish grille and this aji no himono, dried aji fish, is the first cook with this grille. So gooood.


2) I bought bowls and plates.
if you see my previous photos, you can see which is the new comer.

This photo shows only 2 new dishes, but I bought another bowl and got wooden plates from my friend.


The bowl is bit too big for rice, but I'm satisfied with both dish and fish grille.


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パッと見ふつうのメニューですが、私にとってはかなりうきうきな夕食でした。

1) 魚焼きグリルをゲット。このアジの干物が初調理。
  サイコー。

2) お椀と小皿を購入しました。
  過去の写真を見ればどれが新しく買ったやつかは一目瞭然です。

 これ以外にも、もうひとつお椀を買って、友人から木のお皿ももらいました。



お椀がご飯茶碗にしては大きすぎなことを除けば、かなり満足。




仕事の英訳もこんな調子だから伝達ミスが多いです。
ごめんなさい。

Fruit salada


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Originally uploaded by Ocha6

Dose it seem nice, eh?
Just cut apple and banana, put some sour cream and blueberry souse but looks good.

I made blueberry souse which my friend taught me the recipe.

1) Put 1 bag of frozen blueberry, 1 or 2 spoon of sugar and lemon juice into pan.

2) boil until it become tasty :-)

That's it!

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何を書きたかったというと・・・


これ、おいしそじゃない?
りんごとバナナをカットして、ブルーベリーソースとサワークリームをトッピングしただけでこんなに良い感じ。


ブルーベリーソースは友達に作り方を教えてもらいました。

1) 冷凍のブルーベリー1袋、砂糖をスプーンに1~2杯、レモン汁少々を鍋に入れる
2) おいしくなるまで煮るのみ

簡単プー。です。




日本語が表現豊かな言語なのか、私の英語力が乏しすぎるのか。
言わずまでもなく後者ですが・・・。

絵文字でごまかしている時点でもうアウトだな。

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Pancake


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Originally uploaded by Ocha6
I like pancake.
(We call it Hotcake in Japan).

This hot cake is mixed with apple.
I learned this receip in Canada.
My homestay mother sometimes cooked it for breakfast.

Ah, I wanna eat it now, again...