high-class Japanese-style restaurant

My side of family get together at the biggining of the month, and had a little trip. (my uncle's family, my cousin's family, my mon, my grandma and me and my husband.) We staied at really nice Japanese-style hotel, and the dinner was fantastic!! We really enjoyed the time together.
Here are some of the pictures of dinner. ^^

pear with red cheddar cheese

Pear with Red cheddar cheese is really good for dessert. I had this when I was in high school in Colorado, USA. At first I could not bileaved this combinations of cheese and pear. But turn out it was really good. I found red cheddar cheese and pear at the new super market, so I wanted to taste the memorial flavore again. and it was still good, and that taste brought memories back to my heart. ^^

Japanese chicken fried with herb sauce

This is one of my favorate dish. Japanese soy sauce flavored fried chiken with herb sauce. Sause made of ginger, vinegar, and sesame oil with finely-chopped raw cibol. It is really good. If you like spicy chiken, you can make spicy chiken.

And I had Chanpon with it. Chanpon is really easy to make. You can put any kinds of vegitables, and fry hem up and add them with noodle and soup.

Cook using carrots

I still have alot of carrot here... I am eating carrot almost everday, every meal... I was going to make some carrot cake, but I lost my special recipe... humm.. I was really sad....

Wow long time no see... how are you been doing?

I been very busy. ^^ but enogh for my excuse.. let's see what I have made for my dinner, lunch and breakfast. I will just update my pictures, and detal later! haha

This is called Motsunabe.. Its cow innards. broil innards and cabege for about 10 minute with soy sause based soup. Its reallly good. This is country dishes in Fukuoka Kyushu.








This is Rice ball with read Japanese basil . We call it Onigiri. This is traditional rice ball. Rice ball with Japanese basil is really common rice ball in Japan. ^^






This is something that I made with little baby fish. This is goes with rice. If you are bit hungry in the middle of the night, and want to eat something. Here is a good stuff to make you happy.








Chicken thigh with bone stew with Orange jam and soysause. Sounds kind of funny but tast really good. If you make is bit spicy with red pepper, oh, you will enjoy more!







I have more! so check out later!

Japanese Traditional New Year Dish: Osechi

Osechi – ryori is a traditional Japanese New Year food. Usually Osechi ryouri is easily placed in a special box called Jyubako. This jyubako is usually have three-tiered box. And these osechi-ryouri have meaning and reprisent the luck and happiness in the fallowing year. ^^ We start to make this Osech-ryouri from 29th, 30th, and eat this on a new year (Jan 1st) Our new year continue till 3rd of January. We (women) cook a bunch of food at one time it because we don’t need to cook during a new year. We eat a whole food through this 3 days holiday. We did not put a lot of effort to make Osechi this year. Humm… anyway…

In January 1st, we visit home to home to celebrate a new year. First, we visit a husband side of home and celebrate a new year, then visit wife’s house to celebrate a new year. So, basically, we are drinking and eating in the morning to the night. In my case… 1.Visit my in-law parents’ house. (Celebration 1) 2. My husband’s sister came and visits. So celebrate again (Celebration 2). 3. Go visit my mother-in-law’s family home. (Celebration 3), 4. Go visit father-in-law’s family home. So, my January 1st goes like this every year… ^^

When you visitting a house to house, you will have sake (Japanese rice alchole) called Otoso with sliced tangle and dried cuttlefish. You do not care how old you are, you will have otoso. (Picture is my nieces who are 5 years old and 2 years old)

This is how a real Osechi-ryouri looks like.

Natto and Kimuchi

Nattō (納豆) is a traditional Japanese food made from soybeans. And you can find it everywhere in Japan. Nattō has powerful smell but has good strong flavor and sticky consistency. In Japan nattō is most popular in the eastern Kanto region. Natto is favorate food and I had Natto and Kimuchi with bowl of rice. ^^

SOOOOO GOOOOOOD!!!!

Takoyaki たこ焼き

Takoyaki たこ焼き (literally fried or baked octopus) is a popular Japanese dumping made of batter, diced octopus, tempura scraps (tenkasu), pickled ginger, konnyaku, and green onion, topped with okonomiyaki sauce, green laver (aonori), mayonnaise, and katsuobushi (fish shavings), originated in Osaka. But Takoyaki si also easily made at home. It is easy to buy special frying pan made of cast iron at supermarket ^^ I also have one.

But this Takoyaki was from store near my house. They had really goooood Takoyaki. We eat Takoyaki as a snack food. When we are bit hungry, or want to eat something late at night. But also you can make it as dinner dish. Not only itself, but it is really fun to make it with you family and your friends. Originally, you put octopus, but you can put anything you want to. You can put Kimuchi^^, corn, cheese, your vatorate vegetables.... and it is really fun to make your original thing.... ^^

Chanpon and Kimuchi

Chanpon is a Japanese word meaning a mixture of disparate things. One common usage is in Nagasaki Chanpon, which is a noodle dish developed in the international port city of Nagasaki, where a mixture of ingredients such as fish, vegetable, and meat are tossed together as a topping.

The word 'Chanpon'also means being able to navigate and embrace different cultural styles simultaneously; it means not only direct experience with multiple cultures, but being able to blend them into a unique and tasty combination.

(quote from Wikipedia)

And I am eating Kimuchi almost everyday. I got kind of crazy about spicy stuff. Kimchi, also known as gimchi or kimchee is a traditional Korean dish of fremented chili peppers and vegetables, usually made from Chinese cabbage. I eat kimuchi almost every meal, and I always have spicy and hot stuff to my food. Kimuchi makes me want to go to Korea. My good freind was studing in Korea, and I should have visited her where she was there, but, one time, she brough me back 3~4 kinds of Kimuchi. OH, they were sooo good. They fremented chilli peppers to all kinds of stuff. Chinese cabbage, fish, cattlefish, etc.. ^^ and these days, Tabasco is not that hot anymore... ^^; what happen to my sence of taste.

I will ask my Korean friend, and ask her to teach me how to make Kimuchi. ^^ heehee

Sandwich again. ^^

This is the only thing I can make for breakfast?? Ahaha. No, but this submarine sandwich is really easy to make, and goooood. Anyway, I had it with my pumpkin soup. My husband is not feeling well all last week, so I have not cook the dish type of cooking. So, no cooking pictures.


This is one of Japanese orange. I love this orange.
This orange comes out in wintertime, and it’s really good. I can eat a whole box of it. ^^ This orange is just sweet. ^^

Dinner ^^

I always cook 3~4 dishes every dinner. Tonight, I had 5, but I forgot to take other one dish... ^^; anyway... they were good ^^ I had fired egg mixed with canned crab and chivee, stir-fried vegetables, cooked (boiled) lotus root+yam + onion soysause flavor, and sauteed leek and liver .^^ Liver is good for you, and I love to eat when I get tired. We also eat row caw liver, but we need to got to special restaurant for that. We need to eat them really really fresh. You cannot buy caw liver at supermarket. But you can buy pork and chiken liver at any local supermarket. ^^

Jiaozi AGAIN!!?

Yeah, but not crazy about it.. ^^. As you might know, I've got Nintendo Wii, and went to my cousin to play with. My cousin is crazy about Jiaozi. He said he could eat Jiaozi as a breakfast. He loves Jaiozi, so I made a bunch as present. ^^. My cousin and his wife join a volunteer work on every weekend for kids [children] with special needs. They take them to swim for their rehab. Anyway, we visited their home with a bunch of Jiaozi and cake.

We played Wii a lot and had fun, and my cousin and his wife loved our Jiaozi... We made about more than 100, but we ate them all. ^^

Late dinner

We had late dinner the other night, so I made Japanese style rice noodle. We eat this thin rice noodle in summer time, but it is nice to have it with hot soup.




And for the other night, I made tomato past vegetable soup. It was cold night... ^^ If you want to eat vegetable, it is good to make vegetable soup. You can eat so many kinds of vegetable at once. ^^ This soup has Chinese cabbage, egg plants, carrot, celery, potato, tomato, chiken, and onion. (you can put beans and gram ..etc.) Really yumy