Beef and Onion Ethnic Salad

To tell the truth, I have very little work to do this afternoon...
Maybe because it's Friday!
I wanna go home.

Anyway, every Saturday I have a lunch with my boyfriend at my favorite cafe near home, but I am thinking of switching to another cafe this weekend since it is very cold there.
Usually I stay there for about 5 hours to study and talk with my boyfriend but I don't think I can tolerate the cold...

Anyway, last Saturday I received a prize from @nifty (a company that operate Internet communication service).
They organized a cooking contest last year that asked for recipes which goes good with either white or red wine.
I created "Beef and Onion Ethnic Salad" for white wine.
I marinated boiled sliced beef and sliced onion & green pepper with lemon based hand made soy sauce dressing. Instead of adding nam pla (the fish sauce of Thailand), I sprinkled Ikura (salmon roe), which also has the taste of fish sauce.

Don't you think this is a good idea?
Try it out :)

Doing nothing is kind of tired.
It doesn't suit me...

I gotta find out something to do.

See you next week!!!

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High-Fiber Low-Calorie Bread

It is very cold in the morning almost everyday.
Yesterday, I prepared for the sour drink I mentioned yesterday.
I'm looking forward to trying it out next week.

Anyway, my boyfriend is busy attending new year's party every night so I can't put spirit into cooking.
So as yesterday, tonight he has another party to attend.
Hope I cook tonight, since I just made sour drink last night and didn't cook anything...

Different story.
Today, I tried out an interesting bread for lunch.
High-Fiber Low-Calorie Bread!
It just went on sale day before yesterday (1/15/2008).
This bread I posted here is a tuna bread.
It contains only 164kcal but has 4g of fiber!
Isn't it amazing!?

Current product lineup is here.

This bread project is organized by 5 Japanese companies, including Uny Co., Ltd. (a company that operates a chain of supermarkets in Japan) and Itochu Corporation (a Japanese general trading concern).
They named the project "Body Smile Project" and trying to offer healthy food products to the market by studying from the basic cooking ingredient.
Nowadays, people are getting more health conscious, so they focused on that issue by providing the products and services that satisfy their needs.

I hope I am translating the news correctly.
Anyway, I am looking forward to their next health project!

This is all for today.
Stay warm and take care!

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Apple Grey Vinegar Tea

Monday was a holiday and yesterday I was busy, so I couldn't keep my diary...
Yesterday, my supervisor caught a stomach flu and we canceled our convivial party. I don't like to hang out with my supervisor since he is not good at managing his business and I am sick of it, so to tell the truth I was relieved.
I don't want to waste time moaning about my supervisor, so I'm gonna stop.

On Sunday, I created 5 new recipes as usual.
One of them was a drink recipe using apple vinegar.
I received some vinegar products from Mizkan as free samples and I needed to submit "a sour drink recipe" as a task.
I added the apple vinegar and honey to the Twinings Earl Grey Tea.
I came up with this idea since I like Twinings Lady Grey Tea which has refreshing flavours of orange, lemon and bergamot.
My idea was good and I liked what I made, but I realized that I misunderstood the definition of "sour drink" after I submitted my work.
Sour drink is a drink made by soaking fruits and sugar in vinegar for more than a week. The flavor of the fruit will be added to the vinegar after a period of time. When ready, you dilute it with water (or soda or anything you like) and drink.
The vinegar contains nutritional elements that are effective in relieving fatigue. Also it reduces blood cholesterol levels and there are many other good things for your health.
Anyway, I will try again and soak something by next week :)

This is all for today!
Write again tomorrow, hopefully!!!

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