My Recipe Newsletters

Hello!
It's raining like the rainy season.
We have such a gloomy season in early summer called "tsuyu or baiu" in Japan. I hope the weather clears up by the weekend.

Anyway, on Wednesday, my recipe newsletters were introduced on the seasonal page of Mag Mag.
Mag Mag provides a newsletter delivery service, which I believe is the best in Japan. I write a newsletter on Fridays since 2004. It has been about 4 years already, but this was the first time to be featured!!!
Sorry that everything is in Japanese, but the image here is how my newsletter caption listed.
Currently, I have 871 readers.
Hope it increases.

Changing my story, yesterday I had laser hair removal done.
I searched on the Internet and was in between medical laser (such as Laser Diode) and beauty salon's IPL (Intense Pulsed Light).
Finally I decided to have IPL.
My friend goes to the salon and she said it was good, so that proved decisive :) For me, friend is more trustworthy than the Internet.
I purchased 2-year package, hoping to save time shaving...
I mean, I wanna take more time for my cooking!
Sounds crazy? Could be, but Joke! Ha-ha.

Okay, gotta go now.
See you again :)

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Tokyo Sweets: Strawberry Mochi-Feuilles

Last night, I was going to post my diary, but I couldn't beat the sleepiness :(

Yesterday, it rained hard all day long.
My trouser bottoms got wet when I arrived at my workplace.
But I had a company uniform, so that helped a lot.

Also, yesterday, I had a long long meeting, for about 3 hours, at work.
It was my supervisor's fault!
I reconfirmed that he is hopeless.

Writing about Monday, I went to see an orthopedist near the station.
To tell the truth, I still had a pain in my ankle since 3/14.
I tolerated the pain till that day but one of my co-workers recently knew she had cracked her knees by seeing a doctor, so I got scared and went to have an examination ...
Luckily, my bone was fine.
But the doctor told me that if I had sprained the ligament, it might have been serious.
I didn't know that, so I would go if I (hope not) sprained my ankle again!!!

Anyway, on that day, my boyfriend bought me "strawberry mochi-feuilles" for a souvenir.
He got them at Shinjuku station after his business trip to Saitama prefecture.
It was neither a special day nor special trip. I guess he bought it because it is my favorite color: pink!
Mochi is a Japanese rice cake.
It was sanded with strawberry confiture (jam) on and in between almond sponge cake.
Very interesting and new taste! I never thought of this idea :)
Thank to my boyfriend!

Okay, all for today :)
I think I have a delay in my diary, but will keep it up!!!

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Mediterranean Curry

Sakura season has ended.
It is passing fast year by year...

On Saturday, my boyfriend told me that he has Golden Week holidays from 4/29-5/5! Regularly, we work on 30th, 1st and 2nd. How lucky he is!!!

You know what?!
I am sometimes, or always easily annoyed by little things.
I didn't used to be like this, but recently I am not satisfied with many things around me.
So... My boyfriend told me to appreciate everything.
He says I will be happy then.
Right... He is always a happy person!
I wish I could think in his way.
And I am trying to... but looking at reality at work...everybody lacks power, very slow and... I can't take it!!!

When I was a student, I didn't like to do my homework.
But now, I think that was an easy task!
Now I am seriously thinking what I want to do in my life.
I am addicted to cooking, but I believe that is not everything.
Maybe this is why I get depressed sometimes...

Anyway!

On 4/4, I made curry and rice for my boyfriend's 33rd birthday.
As I wrote before, curry and rice is one of my boyfriend's favorite dishes!
I used his favorite vegetable: shishitougarashi (Japanese peppers)!
It has little hot taste but not like chili peppers!
It is more like green peppers.

In Japan, we use "curry roux" to make curry and rice.
It is something different from those served in Thailand or India.
Less spicy and rich in taste.

There are many different kinds of curry roux in Japan.
This time, I used one I got from S&B for a free sample.
The product is called Mediterranean Curry.
It's by French chef called Daniel Martin.
It's sales points are Mediterranean ingredients, such as rich Italian tomatoes and Spanish olives, that complement the spicy taste of curry.
It went great with shishitogarashi!!!

The recipe in Japanese is here.
I have standard curry and rice recipe, too :)

Okay, see you tomorrow again!

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