Thursday, February 25, 2010

My Accomplishments

My expectations are always disappointed... For successive days, I received frustrating results... I think I should better expect nothing, or should lightly enter the competitions X(

Anyway, I will list my accomplishments in January before I forget.

On 1/6, 10th person has photo reported my Shimeji and Minced Meat Omelette. This is my mom's idea :D It goes great with white rice. Yummy!







On 1/15, my Colorful Healthy Dried Tofu Minced Meat Rice Bowl won the gold award at mannanhikari recipe contest again!!! Mannnanhikari is a rice shaped konjac food. By cooking the rice with mannanhikari, you can save calories (up to 30%)! I made minced meat using koyadofu (dried tofu) which also saves calories, too!


On 1/18, my Balsamic Tomato Ramen won 広東賞 (Canton award) at the contest using 中華三昧 (famous Chinese instant noodles in Japan). Balsamic vinegar nicely matches the flavor of soy sauce based soup!





On 1/20, my Sausage and Asparagus Stamppot Croquette won the grand prize at Dutch food contest. Stamppot is a typical traditional Dutch dinner (mashed potato mixed with other mashed vegetables). My darling loves croquette, so I arranged it! The tasting party was held in December in Hirado. I didn't attend the event, but it is nice to see people sampling my food. The prize was a hotel voucher of 国際観光ホテル旗松亭 in Hirado. I booked the hotel and plane tickets already, so my darling and I are going to travel there on 4/3 for my darling's birthday on 4/4!

On 1/21, 10th person has photo reported my Creamy Christmas Tree Salad.









On 1/22, I won the outstanding performance award at my special recipe contest. I entered my Colorful Minced Meat Simmered Potatoes. I used leftover vegetables to cook the dish colorful :D






On 1/24, my Pound Cake Sandwich was posted at cookpad's contest page. It was introduced as a sample Valentine's recipe using Philadelphia cream cheese.







On 1/26, I received the prize for participation at the rice contest in Hokkaido. Unfortunately, I couldn't go there and cook. Also, on 1/13, I got through the screening for the home cooking recipe contest using ingredients of Kyushu, but I wasn't able to participate since the place was too far from Tokyo. Don't ask me why I applied... sometimes I don't expect anything. Opposite from the former! Ha-ha!!!

See you again!

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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Wheeled Carry On Luggage

When I make a short trip, I always carry too much luggage with me... so I am thinking of getting a wheeled carry on luggage! My darling says it's a waste of money, but I'm sure I can free my both hands! I'm torn between the hard and soft one. Maybe the hard one is better because it won't get dirty on a rainy day.

Anyway, I am now busy choosing my wedding dresses. I am thinking of changing into a colored dress during the wedding reception, so I need to select two! Too many things to think! But my friend told me nothing is better than our smiles! That is true!!!

Last night, I was really tired and went to bed early without doing anything!!!

Not that important, but I hope I can list my accomplishments someday soon, too...

Bye for now!

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

My Sister's Cafe

This weekend my darling and I went to my youngest sister's workplace. She waits at a cafe in the community center. I never wrote about my sisters but I have 2 younger sisters: 2 years and 10 years younger. The youngest sister is actually mentally-retarded. After she finished high school, she started to work at many different places to become socially independent. It was very nice to see her working hard :D The cake set menu was sold at a low price (450yen/$4.50) but was really huge and delicious!!! Their coffee was really good, too!

Anyway, I am extremely busy since I need to think about my wedding stuff in addition to my cooking stuff :( My darling always says take it easy, but how can I?!?! I can't compromise anything... you know...

Two images at the bottom are taken at the different places. The red dress is the dress I bought at $10 the other day :D My darling is reading a wedding news on the paper! Good boy!!!

I gotta stop now! Bye for now :)

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