Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Vanilla ice cream with maple syrup and walnuts

Went to an ice cream parlor with my husband. He had his usual which is mint chocolate and Oreo ice cream and I vanilla ice cream with maple syrup and walnuts. Decadent but so good.

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Japanese dinner

Yellow tail and salmon sashimi, simmered "satoimo" (Japanese taro) and left-overs.

Monday, May 28, 2007

Koyadofu and Pan-simmered shredded beef, broccoli and carrots

Koyadofu is freeze-dried tofu and when simmered in dashi soup it has sponge like texture. It is my husband's and my favorite vegetarian dish. Pan-simmered shredded beef and vegetables are flavored by sake, sugar, oyster sauce, soy sauce and sesame oil.

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Italian pastries


My husband brought me back very nice Italian pastries from an Italian deli near-by his work: Tiramisu, ricotta cheese tart, chocolate mousse roll and caramel apple cheese cake. Tiramisu was especially delicious.

Nabe - Shredded pork and Chinese cabbage

This is one of "Nabe" dishes. Nabe is a Japanese cray pot and we cook all sorts of food in it. It is typically winter comfort food but for me it is good for anytime. This one has shredded pork and Chinese cabbage. It is simmered sake and salt. Very simple but brings out great taste of the ingredients.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Flowers on the property

Virginia Bluebells in the shade garden


Bleeding Heart



Monday, May 21, 2007

Japanese Dinner

Grilled salmon, blanched spinach, Koya dofu, Japanese omelet, rice and miso soup with wakame seaweed and tofu.

Sunday, May 20, 2007

OmuRice with Demigras sauce


Tonight's dinner was something called "OmuRice" with demigras sauce. It is fried rice flavored with butter and ketchup covered with omelet. It is a Japanese invention and quite popular. When I was a kid, usually omurice was dressed with ketchup but nowadays it is getting popular to serve it with demigras sauce.

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Sabrett hot dogs




Sabrett hot dogs with onion sauce and jalapeno mustard

Egg in a basket

If you have seen the movie, "V for Vendetta", you know what this is. It was actually pretty good. It is sunny side up and butter toast all together.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Curry Soba


I made Japanese curry with butter rice yesterday. We had left over curry sauce and had it over Japanese soba noodle.

Monday, May 7, 2007

Hamburg Steak with demigras sauce

This is called "Hamburg Steak" in Japan and it is similar to Salisbury steak . It is a very popular dinner dish in Japan.

Saturday, May 5, 2007

BBQ


Tonight was the first BBQ night for this year. I love my steak bloody rare. We had it with butter and a little bit of soy sauce.

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Friendly's



My husband and I went to Friendly's today for lunch for fun. We ordered Cesar salad to share. It was a good job that we shared for it was a huge portion as an appetizer. I had a hot dog with French fries. They hit the spot!