Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Typhoon #12

Typhoon #12 is approaching Tokyo.

We have a nice weather this morning but we expect a bad weather from this afternoon till Friday (storm on Friday), since the typhoon is moving slow X(



I hope the storm won't last till Saturday. Our weekends were almost rain this month!

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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Umi Budo

Do you know Umi Budo?

It's a type of seaweed from Okinawa also known as sea-grapes or green caviar.



It was very interesting to know that you can't keep this in the fridge but at the room tempreture. Also, you can't marinate it but dip in the sauce to eat.



My sister said she likes to eat it with soy sauce but I think it was salty enough to eat as is.

You can find nicer pics on the Net since I received this near the expiration date... LoL

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Monday, August 29, 2011

Vegetarian Kinpira - Video Recipe

I received many requests for Japanese vegetarian foods, so here is the one!
I made my popular recipe which I have already received 300 photo reports saying it was good, so I hope you like it ;)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BkKRmbtY2o

Kinpira is mostly seasoned with soy sauce, mirin (sweet sake), and sugar so it is pretty sweet, but instead of using sugar, I used ketchup, so my recipe is tasty ;) Also, I didn't use gobo (burdock root) but commonly available vegetables (such as potato, onion, and green pepper), so I hope you can try it out!!!



BTW, soy sauce is made by fermenting soya beans, so it is a vegetarian seasoning :D

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Vegetarian Kinpira

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

Ingredients:
150g (5.3oz.) potato
50g (1.8oz.) onion
50g (1.8oz.) carrot
35g (1.2oz.) green pepper
A
* 2 tbsp. ketchup
* 1/2 tbsp. soy sauce
* 1/2 tbsp. sake
* a pinch of sugar
2 tsp. sesame oil

Directions:
1. Cut potato green pepper and carrot into short and thin strips. Slice the onion.
2. Heat sesame oil in a frying pan, and fry onion until fragrant. Add potato and carrot, and stir-fry until browned (2 minutes). Add green pepper and stir-fry for 30 seconds.
3. Add A in the pan and stir-fry until the seasonings blend.

↓レシピ(日本語)
http://cooklabo.blogspot.com/2011/08/blog-post_29.html
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It goes great with white rice!!!

BTW, did any of you realized that I misspelled the title "Kimpira" in my video... I couldn't re-upload the video once it's published to everyone, so I need to be careful X(

Anyways, enjoy ;D

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