Parkhouse Eatery

We went to Parkhouse Eatery for brunch.
I ate house smoked salmon, cream cheese & green onion EGG ES SCRAMBLES. This was so delicious!

I will definitely come back this place.

Satsumaimo ( Japanese sweet potato )

Japanese Turnip and Deep fried Tofu

Seaweed and Tofu Salad with Sesame Dressing

Egg Cutter

I finally found this cute egg cutter at Henry's!!
Love this!!

Saturday Brunch

Rice Omelette with Coleslaw Salad with my love :-p

Pork

hibi-cafe lunch

Lemon Sage Linguine part 2

I cooked Carbonara with shrimp.
Wow!! The creamy flavor form cheese, egg and garlic basil pesto.
Soooooooooooooooo yummy!

I thought Lemon Sage Linguine for $8 was expensive. There was 4 servings. It was really worth it.

Orange!!!

I got fresh oranges at farmer's market.

Fresh oranges, Mozzarella cheese and Arugula.
Drizzled olive oil. Just sprinkled salt and pepper.

Beef cutlet

Green Beans with Ginger

Tonight's dinner was vegetarian food.
Green beans, Baked kabocha and Quinoa.

Chop the ends off the green beans. Add to boiling water with a pinch of salt. boil for about 1 minute and half and drain the water.

Combine 3tbs soy sauce, 1tbs mirin, 1tbs mentsuyu (Japanese noodle soup).　Put this sauce on boiled green beans. Top with ground ginger.

Simple simple simple cooking but you do taste the green beans.

hibi- wear

I took a ceramics class at college. It was the third semester for me.
I practiced on the wheel so hard! It's called throwing. I learned a lot from my teacher. Finally I made useful hibi-wears!
I really liked this brown cray and green glaze.

Throwing is really fun and It's kind of meditation. I really want to come back to ceramics class sometime soon. I think... I need meditation sometimes :)

Lemon Sage Linguine part 1

I bought fresh lemon sage linguine and garlic basil pesto at Kensington farmer's market. I smelled the linguine and It was fresh and lemony.

I boiled the linguine really carefully because I needed perfect al dente!! The pesto tasted sooooo good. I think I will buy more. I also sauted Mahi Mahi. Fresh squeezed lemon gave a nice kick!

CLASIC!! Meat sause pasta!

Of course I made a meat sauce from scratch :-)

Shrimp and Beans soup

I became a bean eater. Recently I have been cooking beans instead of rice.
I like lentil beans a lot.

Shrimp broth adds good flavor.
Simple but tasty!

Salmon Clouds

Salmon covered with sour cream onion creamy mashed potato.
The top with Parmesan cheese.
400F for 20 to 25 min.

The salmon was so moist and tasty :)

Sesame Spinach

I made this green bowl! I was thinking what kind of food would look good in this bowl....? Then I made typical Japanese spinach salad. This is power food!! Good for your health.

Rinse 1 bunch of spinach. Add a pinch of salt to a pot of boiling water. Put the spinach into the pot and cook for 1 minute and 30 sec. Using a strainer, remove spinach from the pot and shock it in cold water. When the spinach is completely cool, roll the spinach into a log so that the stems and the leaves are on opposite sides.

Sesame sauce
3tbs ground sesame
2tbs soy sauce
3tbs sugar
1tbs sake

Cut spinach about 2 inches each. Combine with sesame sauce.

Broken Yolk

My first time at Broken Yolk! This was yummy! Runny poached egg was awesome!
I will come back!

Miso Chicken with kabocha

Miso and chicken are great combination!!

Soumen (Japanese cold noodle)

This is summer time food. Super easy "Soumen".

Love Gyoza!!

I made Gyoza :) yum yum!!

This is my husband favorite food!

Easy Curry Jumblya!!

If you have good rice cooker, you should try this recipe.

2 cup rice
2 piece Japanese curry (I used "Kokumaro" for this time)
half cup minced onion
half cup minced carrot
1 Italian sausage

Minced 2 peace of Japanese curry. Cut small size Italian sausage.
Put all inexpedience into rice cooker. You just set regular button!
That's all! so easy and so yummy!!

Green Beans with sesame sauce

about half pound of green beans

Cut the end of green beans. Boil about 90 seconds. Drain the water, put them into cold water.

Combine these ingredients below.
2tbs ground sesame
1tbs mirin
1tbs sake
2tbs soy sauce
1tbs sugar

Add the cold green beans mix very well.

Strawberry Milk

Lovely color :-)

Japanese Eggplant

The season of eggplant is summer in Japan. This dish remands me of my childhood. Specially crazy hot summer day, my mom made this dish.
Cold deep fried eggplant yummmmm!!

The Mission-north Park

I went to The Mission. That was yummy! but that was so big!

Hand mixer

Finally I bought a hand mixer. I made strawberry ice cream!
Oops!! I used raw eggs but we ate it anyway.
It was so delicious and we were ok :)
I needed to buy pasteurized eggs.

Japanese eat raw eggs. We can get edible raw eggs at any store.
The pasteurization methods of the U.S and Japan are different.

Heven Sent

I don't know why... I was craving chocolate so bad last night.
Then we went to Heaven Sent Dessert.

I ordered "Irish Angel".
Wow Wow Wow!!! The taste was much better than I expected!!
Of course I was in Heaven :)

Texas Style French Toast

Another of my favorite breakfast places is "Ricky's".

They have awesome apple pancake but I like their Texas style french toast :)

Herb Roast beef

Cold Zucchini Soup

This is good for hot summer day.

2 1/2 Zucchini
1/2 onion
about 2 cup milk
1 tbs butter
2 tbs olive oil
salt and pepper

Gratin Dish

I went to La Mesa Village. I found gratin dishes at an antique shop.

I was looking for an individual casserole dish!

This one was $3.95. Is this expensive or a good deal?? I thought It was a good deal :) so I bought 2 of them but I should have bought 5.

Of course dinner was gratin!

Red & White Salad

I think this is a very basic Italian salad.
Tomato and Mozzarella cheese make beautiful colors.
I topped with arugula but If I had fresh basil I would have used it.

Vinegarettes
1/2 lemon juiced
1 tbs salt
pinch of black pepper
2 tbs olive oil
1 tbs minced basil
(I used frozen minced basil)

I made that dish in ceramic class.

Pork Cutlet with Peah Salsa

Today is the end of month.
Oh boy time goes sooooooo fast!!

What did I do for half a year??
What am I going to do for the rest of the year??

Quinoa !!

I didn't know Quinoa until my cousin introduced　me to quinoa.

I really love it !

Kabocha "Home Run" Soup

We went to Blue Boheme. I ordered carrot soup. It was soooooooo awesome!!

The carrot soup inspired me. It was creamy and homey. I wanted to cook soup, then I made a Kabocha soup for tonight.

about 1/4 pound kabocha
1 medium size onion
3 sliced bacon
1 tbs butter
2. 1/2 chicken broth
1/3 cup of couscous

Cut the kabocha into about 1 inch cubes. Boil it for about 10 minutes. Drain the water. In the mean time slice the onion. In a saute pan heat 1 tbs of butter then add the sliced onion and stir-fry until lightly browned. Add chopped bacon. Stir-fry for 10 more minutes. Add the boiled kabocha and mix well.

Take the contents of the saute pan and put it into a blender. Add chicken broth and blend until smooth. Then pour the mixture back into the pan. Warm up the soup and adjust the taste with salt.

I used salted butter and thick black pepper spiced bacon. If you want to control the saltiness, you can use unsalted butter and regular bacon.

I think I picked a good kabocha! It was sweet and tasty.
That's why my husband said the soup was a Home Run!!

Takoyaki

I love Takoyaki :)

"Tako" means octopus in Japanese. Each dumpling has boiled octopus in the center.
You have to eat Takoyaki fresh and hot!

Ramen Girl

Ah~~~~ Ramen Ramen Ramen~~~ I miss Ramen!
I am Ramen lover!

If someone asked me, "what do you want to eat in Japan?"
My answer is "Ramen" !!

Green Green!

Rice field... Just beautiful contrast.... Green, deep green and blue.
The green is good for my eyes.

It's Beautiful Sushi!!

Ha~~~~~ So Beautiful!!

Of course It was so delicious!!

Sushi is a luxury food for me. I don't eat high quality sushi like this often. This was definitely a treat!

I went back to Japan for about 2 weeks. I had good time with my family and friends. I expected lots of rain and high humidity. June is usually the rainy season. We call "Tsuyu". But It was really comfortable, kind of dry weather.