Western Style Green Pepper, Carrot, and Egg Kinpira

Hello! It is nice and warm today!
My boyfriend went out for a drink last night and came back this morning :(
I'm so sorry that he is spoiling this nice weather!
The cherry blossoms were very beautiful!
They are almost in full bloom!

Anyway, last night, I was drowsy and I couldn't update my diary again...
I translated the below recipe, since it is very popular on my page at Cookpad.
Also, Jo might wants to know :)

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Western Style Green Pepper, Carrot, and Egg Kinpira

Difficulty: Easy
Time: 5-10min
Number of servings: 2

Ingredients:
90g (3.2oz.) green pepper
30g (1.1oz.) carrot
2 eggs
A
* 1.5 tbsp. ketchup
* 1 tsp. soy sauce
* 1 tsp. sake
* a pinch of sugar
2 tsp. sesame oil

Directions:
1. Cut the green pepper and carrot into short and thin strips.
2. Heat sesame oil in a frying pan, and fry green pepper and carrot strips until slightly softened.
3. Add A in the pan and stir-fry until the seasonings blend.
4. Add beaten eggs and scramble, making sure eggs remain moist.

My original recipe in Japanese is here.
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Oops, I found another bad news at different contest... I lost it.
I think I'm out of luck!

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Chinese Food

Hi!
Some of the cherry blossoms are already in bloom!
I took a picture of them on Saturday.
Unfortunately, it is raining and cold today, but once it gets warm, I guess they are going to be in full bloom!!!




Today, I have one good news.
Last week, I won the grand prize in the "Chinese food seasonings contest".
This contest was organized by Ajinomoto, maker of food seasonings, cooking oils and foods, drinks, and pharmaceuticals.
They asked for easy recipes using their Chinese food seasoning products.
My prize-winning piece is "Chinese Style White Miso Stir Fried Seven Vegetables".
I stir fried what I had in my refregerator.
For the seasoning, I used chicken stock with white miso which was leftover from the new year's day.
The chicken stock adds a nice rich flavor to slightly sweet white miso!
You could get addicted :)

The prize for this award was a meal voucher for chef Wakiya's "Turandot", where offers a new style of Chinese cooking inspired by the traditional food of Shanghai, Szechuan, Canton and Beijing.
He has a restaurant in NY, too!
I am excited to go there, but I wonder why I always win things not cash, ha-ha!

Luckily, I doubly won the second prize, too!
The recipe is "Spring Roll-Like Egg wrapped Steamed Rice".
It is very easy! I cooked rice with chicken stock and vegetables.
While cooking, I made crepe style fried egg (usuyakitamago) to wrap the rice.

The prize for this award was Chinese wok!!!
Oh my god, where shall I put...
I think I need a bigger kitchen someday.

I'm not gonna write in detail, but I lost prizes for some other big contests which are held every year...
This was my third trial but again I lost :(
Am I disliked?!

Okay, I have a lot more to write but I gotta stop now.
Goodnight!

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PHOTO IMAGING EXPO 2008

Hello!
It is very cold today and raining.
Actually, it has been raining for a few days.
The cherry blossoms might bloom next week, since it is going to get warmer from tomorrow!
I live close to a famous cherry blossom viewing spot, so I will show you the picture if I took a nice one!

Anyway, on the 19th, as I said last time, I went to the PHOTO IMAGING EXPO 2008 in Tokyo.
It was very crowded with camera otaku, most of them were men.
They were taking pictures of booth bunnies.
<-- Like this :)


The reason I went there is to attend the lecture of Kouichiro Saito, who is an advertising Photographer.
This lecture was about food photography and was held at the booth of Olympus, which is my camera manufacturer.
This was my first time to take lessons in food photography.
We took some pictures of cakes they prepared.
My problem is that I cannot take a picture that looks like taken under the natural light, under the room light, so it was interesting to know the way he set.

At the Olympus booth, there were some experts, so I asked them a lot of questions about color temperature, lighting equipment, etc...
Also, I tried macro lense which I wanted to buy someday.
White balance is not correct, but you can see the difference in feathering.

I think I need to know more about the basics of camera!
I will try my best!

Okay, see you next week :)
Have a nice weekend!

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