This is "ASIAN BEAUTY" Dont you just loooooooove her little hat on her?? She looks so cute in it!!
Kay now is 3 yrs old so looks much more mature :))) She is "Multilingual" just like Luli in the other entry-as a ESL teacher it is so lucky to have friends who are multilingals because we can talk to each other about the challende, the discoveries, and joy of teaching one!!
NOTE: This is not from the same day.
I cooked these dishes in the past couple of weeks :)
And sorry for the photo size, some photos were taken on my mobile so its hard to see....
りんご入りグリーンサラダ "Gargen salad with apple"
I just put a bunch of fresh veggies- at least 3 different kind of Green leaf(regular ball lettuce, spinich, sunny Lettuce, Shiso leaf) two different kind of citrus (yuzu and Lemon) and more.. I love love love Fresh veggies and while staying in America thats what I missed the most! "A varieties of veggies and the change throughout the season" In America, Ready to go salad was so useful and i often bought that- but as long as im in Japan, im going to make my own choice what veggies will go with what, and which season, what about the color, the looks, and the nutrients? its the fun part of cooking in Japan!
アメリカにいるときは、もうバッグに入ってて洗わなくてもきらなくてもいい、ready to go salad をよく買っていました。この季節にはこの果物！とかそういう概念はあまりなく、季節の野菜をつかってサラダ、などの料理があまりみられなかった気がします。日本にいる間は私は思い切りたくさんの食材を使って
季節も栄養も彩りも考えて野菜をたくさん食べたいと思います★
Pumpkin Salad and Chicken Donburi
Pumplin salad- microwave 1/4 pumpkin for 10min. smash it and add 1 cup of milk, and table spoon of butter, salt and pepper! its great for kids too cause its sweet!
Chicken Donburi- i just made it my own way so i dont know if this will work for any of you- !!! sorry, no warranty! hehe
Daikon, chicken, green onion - you cut them into small pieces (2cm) pour sesami oil or regular veg oil in a pan, fry chicken and daikon for about 5 min. flavor with soy sauce, Mirin or honey or sugar, and sake. I crached an fresh egg yolk on top. (Ive only done this in JAPAN because i know that japanese eggs are meant to use to raw too, but i dont know about other places, so please check if your eggs are fesh and ok to eat uncooked!!! i dont wanna kill anyone! lol)
"まきまきパーティー” Maki Maki party! roll roll party! plus あら汁 Ara Jiru (soup with Fish head!) haha
This is just basically a lot of Lettuce, and the rest of the igridience that go in the lettuce.
I prepared Maroni- (rice noodle. i think) some kind of meat ( i did beef and shrimp)
Satumaage (fish paste fry? in Taiwan they call i TEMPUrA which i think its totally wrong haha) Nira (no idea what you call it in Eng.) its the thin long green veggies from China haha
Now, I loooooooooooooooooooove to make this soup because
1. Fish head is normally a part you through awayso its sooooooooooooooo cheap. I got 鯛 tai, which if you buy one fish of tai it will cost you easy over 1000yen or 3000yen or something. but only head was like 200yen. and it was half price 30 min. before the store closed. thats the best time since almost every fresh stfuff is marked down.
cause there isnt any meat in it but
actually when you get soup out of it, its ohhhh you dont need any seasoning, really, its the taste of ocean :) wich i think some people hate, but i love. it IS a popular and typica menu in SUSHI restaurant. some expert critiques say "you will be able to judge the sushi when you have a bown of arajiru" which i totally believe!
2. Pretty Easy, but pro TASTE!
You boil fish head with salt. then drain all the water- this is important to keep the fishhy smell away for the soup.
Add fresh water, then pour in Soy sauce , dried seaweed, and a little bit of Yuzu skin! and done!
What I call "American Meal"
Cambell Clam Chowder(Loved by me and mama)
Toast, fried eggs, and Garden salad!
This was so easy and light!!! so it took me only about 10 min. for the whole thing.
Well, but we all agreed that this was more like !lunch! than dinner so later on we were hungry and shared Curry udon. hahahaha what a eater...... ><;
If i could add one more to this "American Meal", what would you cook?
Chicken? potatos? hmmm pretty difficult!
"spaghetti Napolitan"
Bacon, green pepper, Onion and "ketchup"
Back in old times, a chef @ Hotel New England in Yokohama invented this dish.
They used an English name "Spaghetti napolitan" because at that time in Napoli Italy, Tomato sauce was widely for pasta. Although the way of cooking and the ingridience differs from the real tomato sauce spaghetti from italy, it was made to Japanese people's favors especially at that time. So when certain food came to Japan they tried to copy it and introduce it as it is, but they had to adjust the taste because Japanese people's favor for taste is different from Westerners.
外国の地名がついているのに日本にしかなくてビックリした食べ物ランキング - gooランキング
1. "Spaghetti Napolitan"
2. "American Coffee"
3."Tenshin Rice" (chinese rice)
4."Chuka man" (Chinese steamed bread)
5."Tenshin Amaguri" (Chinese Sweet Chetnuts)
6."chuka-soba" (Chinese ramen noodle)
7."winner coffee" (cofee from Viness, whipped cream on top)
8."toruko rice"( Turkish Rice)
9. "Russian Tea" (Russian tea)
19." Blue Hawaii shaved ice" (shaved ice with blue syrup)
I felt really funny everytime I order "american coffee" or,
"American Dog" which is a corn dog here, but also funny to see
"Osaka yaki" 大阪焼 in Taiwan = Okonomiyaki. because Okonomiyaki is a famous food from osaka, someone named it this way. Its so funny though! if we cook Osaka, that would be bad. hahaha
This is a boy I met in a local nursery school in Taiwan. He was about 3 and although he was trying to talk to me a lot in Chinese, i couldnt understand of course, but anyways, i felt "wow, kids do the same thing all over the world" and "boy do really care about the size all over the world" It was really cute.
My friend's daughter Luli :)
She is just TOO adorable and her personality is as beautiful and bright as her look!
What you need*
Spaghetti, Olives with anchovy (if not just olives and anchovy or just olives)
Chicken ( i used breast), whole can tomato salt pepper garlic olive oil
what you do*
1.cook pasta, salt it (dont over cook)
2.in a skillit, heat olive oil and garlic, olives fry til brown (dont burn)
3. add chicken, salt and pepper. pour in tomatos
4. add pasta, mix it and serve :>
(if you are not confident about salting and peppering, just buy the pasta tomato sauce already made!!
<extra mushroom or other veges like spinich would be awesome i think>
In December, my friend from Ex-work (haha) and I made HOMEMADE PIZZA!!!!!!
It was really easy to make, and delicious!!!!!!!!!!! and cheap!
I never thought making pizza could be so easy!
we also cooked pizza, it was an "Italian night" oh so good :>
This is a great game for kids to have fun and learn how to pack their suitcases for trip!
Materials: 2 suitcases or bags, 2 boxes,
↓ 2sets of the following↓
cap, swimsuit, sweater, jacket, underwear, towel, t-shirt, pants etc.... anything!
Today's phrase... "Pack the suitcase!"
1.Make two teams
2.put some clothes in a box for each team (the number of clothing have to be the same)
3.lay out a suitcase
4. One of the first player of each team will start off the game by shouting "Pack the suitcase!" and will run to get one item.
5.when you come back, you must shout what you picked like, "a towel!!!!!"
6. you need to fold it nicely and place it in your suitcase.
7. when the box got empty, you need to zip your bag and shout "Let's GO!" whoever is faster is the winner!!
Voice from teacher
my students looooooved this game, and requested to play again and again! Kids became so serious to fold their clothes- great way to encourage them ! Afterwords the winner team took their suitcase and went outside, and the loser team sent them off "Have a nice trip!"
