Udon*

Hey, guys! today, I would introduce my hometwon!

Look at this picture! can you guess what it is !?

yeah, this is chocolate shaped Mt. Fuji !! ;)

By the way, I am from Yamanashi!

Do you know FujiQ highland? That is a amusement park! It is located in my hometown!!!

My hometown is famous for Udon bacause there are so many Udon shops, like more than 50!!

See, here is Udon shop map!! Every Udon shop has different taste!

This picture is from one of my favorite Udon shop, Genji!

It looks good, huh? :D I LOVE this!!! Name of my place is Fujiyoshida, so we call those Udon "Yoshida no Udon(Udon of Yoshida)"

The feature of Yoshida no Udon is Noodle!! It is very chewy!! I know most Udon that you guys know is not chewy but my place's are!! :D so, I got used to eat chewy Udon....When I ear udon in Chiba or Tokyo,any other places, I sometimes feel something is missing.....hahaha

The soup is based on soy souce and soybean paste! I think this is kind of traditional soup for Udon. sometimes, they put onions in soup to make taste good! It is really good! xD

They usually put boiled cabbage, horse meat, deep fried bean curd and soft seaweed on the top!

You can oder some additional topping like burdock and tempura and so on. It depends on Udon shops! also, the price is very reasonable! Most Udons are 350~400yen!! It is very kind for your wallet, isn't it?? That's why people live in my hometown often go to Udon shop then the number of Udon shop has increased. Oh, when you eat udon, I would recommend you to put spice!! This way is pretty common! This spice based on red pepper and then put sesame and japanese pepper tree. When i eat Udon, I always put it into udon...it's very delicious!!!

If you come visit FujiQ highland, please go to Udon shop!! I hope you like it! ;)

Finally, I will show you this picture. This is my hometwon in spring!! :)

aaaah, i miss my sweet home there......!! Hahahah well, guys have a niceday~~~~!!

Lemon cake

Hi, everybody! How are you doing?

It's getting hot outside in those days. I feel the summer is coming soon but before summer, the rainy season is coming..... I do not like rainy season because it makes me feel down somehow! :(

Today, I would like to introduce how to make "Lemon cake"!!

My mum often makes this for me and family in this season! This tastes very good! It's like bavarois(bavarian cream?) anyways, it's very yummy and i LOVE it and think most girls would like it! :D

Also, this is very easy to make! so, why don't you trysoak it!! xD

*Ingredients

Milk 200cc

fresh cream 200cc

Gelatine 50g

the powder of lemonade 150g

Let's cook~~~~~~!!

1. First, you soak the gelatines with water.(1)

2. put milk into a pan and put soaked gelatines(1). Please turn the gas down!!

3. when the gelatines are melted away, put fresh cream in it. (2)

4. you put the the power of lemonade in a container, then you pour (2) into it and stir with them.

5. wrap it in plastic warap and put into refrigetator for a few hours.

6. when it jell, then everything is done! also, you might see the top of cake is yellow (its for lemonade) and most part is white! :D

it's very easy isn't it?? do you like cake? then you should try it !! xD

If you know cakes how to cook easily, let me know!!

Croquette

Hi !! how was your weekend!? What did you do!?

I went to shot trip with my friends who were exchange students!! The funny point was that it was decided before a day. When I had tutor party with exchange students, my friends asked me to go to Kamakura and Enoshima. Luckily i was free on that day. so I went to Kamakura and Enoshima with them. I have actually been there for 3 times but they have never been there except one. so, they were very excited!!

When we get there, we went to the beach directly and then went to "Komachi street" which is pretty famous for sightseeing and food street! :D

I have seen unique Croquette shop on TV. so, I told them and I actually wanted to try it!

so, we went there and bought some.

Look at thi photo! there are many kind of Croquettes!

As you see, there are Chocolate, meat, plum, black sesame, red potato flavors!!

Have you ever seen or tried those flavors!?????

I bet some peole say yes, but some people say no! hahaha :D and you can see the picture that drew cute boy. It was drawn by famous food reporter! xD

I was very interested in chocolate one also, my friends were too!! we all bought and ate it.


←(i'm eating....lol)

Well, It was not bad, it was interesteing taste! my American friends said the same things...haha Inside was hot meling chocolate and outside was fried bread crumbs!! I think if you like chocolate, you should try it! All croquette were just 200 yen. It is cheap!!!!

Next i would like to show you this picture. It's rice cracker shop! we call it senbei in Japanese!

As you can see, if you go there, you can see how to make rice cracker! They sell many kinds of rice cracker. My friend boutght spicy one! I did not take photo of that but it looked very spicy because the color was red!! He ate it but said"It's not that spicy that I expected!

I would like to introduce more food but forgot to take photos.... :(

You can get ice cream, crepe, sausage and so on

and

there are many restaurants!! I'm sure if you walk around this street, you might get hungry!!

Finally I will show you this!!!
This is my favorite candy!!

I think All Japanese know Grape Candy!

you can usually get one at stand or when it's the festival.

We went to "Tsuruoka Hachimangu"(shrine)

When I saw grape candy stand, I straightly bought one.

My American friends have never tried this but they really liked it!! :D
After that, we went to the temple to see great buddha and then headed to Enoshima.....

It was awesome trip! I would love to share this beautiful sunset!!!!!!!

It's very beautiful, isn't it!???? I LOVE it!! This view is from the top of mountain in Enoshima!

I recommend you to go there. of course, Komachi street! I'm sure you can have fun time!! :)

Gyoza (fried pork & vegetable dumplings)

Hi guys!
Golden week was over. ah..., we have no holidays until the end of this semester!?ooops..... D:

How was your golden week??

Did you eat good food? Did you cook? :D

I returned my sweet home during golden week! I enjoyed holiday with my family!
I visited my friend's house. Actually my friend was not there because she lives in America.
She is a daughter of best friend of my mother. When I visited her house, we cooked Gyoza (fried pork & vegetable dumplings)

so, I would like to introduce how to cook "fried pork & vegeable dumplings" !!

*Ingredients

・dumpling wrappers 30
・pork minced meat 100g
・cabbage 3 slices
・leek 100g
・solt and pepper
・sesame oil
・water

First you have to wash your hands!!!!! :D

well, let's cook~♪”

1. cut the leek and cabbage into small piece and then drain off water. (A)



2. put pork minced meat and (A) into a bowl. Knead them with your hands until it become sticky! Put solt, pepper and sesame oil. (B) *I do not know if other family put sesame oil when they cook gyoza. My family always does because it helps the teste good :D)


3. Put (B) on dumpling wrapper. Flod in a half and pinch a fold into the edge and wrap up. Put water on the edge. It helps sticking together between fold and fold. (C)







4. put oil on hot plate and (C). It's like that picture! Fried until it begins to brown. After that put the water to steam it.

well done!

Eat with soy sause and vinegar and if you like,add the spicy oil used to season Chinese food(layou) !! *Be careful when you eat because it's very hot!! :D

when you have party, gyoza is gonna be good food!! It's not that difficult...

why don't you cook it? ;)