Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Teriyaki Pork Don

Teriyaki pork with scrambled egg with rice. Recently, I had to stay in my office late at night, and come home usually 9pm. If I am making dinner from 9pm.. I want to make an easy dish, and quick one. and this is the quick one. I made this within 20 munites ^^
Ahh, I really want to go home early.. coming home at 9pm is not fun. I tend to work and tend to put all my effort to what I do... so ... endless... ^^

Saturday, May 19, 2007

This is what I ate in New Zealand

you know what? I realized I have a lot of picture to show you.. so I will add and show you one at the time when I add cooking blog. I will have little space, and tell you about the wonderful dish I had in NZ. ^^

And I will also add people I met in NZ to my other blog. Don't miss it!

Dukkah

Dukkah is an Egyptian spice blend and is just wonderful. The more you eat it the more addictive it becomes. Serve with toasted crusty bread (Turkish bread is great for this), and olive oil(good good oil, any good oil go with dukkah. I recomend to used avocado oil, extra vergin oil. Have to be good one.) Dip bread into olive oil, then into the Dukkah and enjoy this unique and addictive mix.

I met this Dukkah when I was visiting New Zealand. I found mixed spices, and my hostmother show me how to enjoy this. It is really good with your favorate alchole drinks. I am addicted to this recently, and I already eaten all the mixed dukkah from NZ, so I need to make some. I found some recipe, so.. I will try to make it someday. Maybe you can find some import spice store. Egyptian spice! Really good. I enjoy this with my lemon flavored cocktail( I love lemon, lime, orange flavored drinks). I use avocado oil for my Dukkah.

*Recipe**
Selected headnotes: Egyptian street vendors sell small paper cones with the unique dukkah blend, along with strips of pita bread. Customers then dip the bread into the vendor's bowl of olive oil and then their dukkah.

1/2 cup hazelnuts
1/4 cup coriander seeds
3 tablespoons sesame seeds
2 tablespoons cumin seeds
1 tablespoon black peppercorns
1 teaspoon fennel seeds1 teaspoon dried mint leaves
1 teaspoon salt

Heat a heavy skillet over high heat, add the hazelnuts, and dry-toast until slightly browned and fragrant, being careful that they don't burn. Remove from the heat and cool completely. Repeat the procedure with each of the seeds and the peppercorns. Allow each of them to cool completely.
Place the nuts and seeds, along with the mint and salt, into a mortar and pound until the mixture is crushed. Or pulse in a food processor to a coarse consistency; do not allow the mixture to become a paste.

Store in an airtight container in a cool place for up to 1 month

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Jamie Oliver

Recently, he became one of my favorate cooking teacher. I really enjoying his cooking TV show. Its all in English, and the way of his cooking is just really fun to watch. I thought he is Australian, but he happen to be British. ^^
I think I will go to book shop to see if they have some his ccook book. He is really fun. He cooks really fast, and high pitched, and talk really fast. But his dish turn out really nice and homy. I also love his kitchen too. In Japan, his chooking show starts around 8pm to 9pm. I go home around 8:30, and I just go up to my TV and turn on! Enjoy his talk and his cooking untill 9pm.. then, my turn to cook. Its really tiring to cook after hard work.. especially coming home around 9 is .... bad. I missed his show tonight. I came home around 9:30. I had meeting... humm..
anyway, if you have chance to see his show, please! Its fun!

Sunday, May 06, 2007

First cooking after I came back from NZ


Heeeyy... Haven't update this blog and haven't really cooked for a long time, especailly when I was visiting my mother in NZ... I hlep my hostmother's cooking, and ... It was so much fun! now here I am.. cooked with some spices from NZ... ^^



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Celebration on Girl's day

We have called Girl's day and celebrate girld child. Especially, when girl having this girl's day very first time, we all get together and celebrate the happiness and wish this child's health and peaceful life. Here thery are, humm... Japanese full couse meal. and with a
lot of Sake... ^^

Japanese style BBQ

I love eating dinner or meal outside. Its deliciouse, and fun to see how they cook things and how they arrange food with variouse fantastic dishes.


is one night we went to eat Japanese style BBQ at farmer's house close to my hometown. The meat was fresh and taste really good.