Mizuna spaghetti ☆

Oh! I forgot to draw sliced onion!! :))

As for Mizuna.... http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizuna

Pork Cutlet Bowl ☆

TERIYAKI CHICKEN (*´∀`)♪

We all love it!! I could eat a big bowl of steamed rice!!! Yummy!!!

Pure White Corn ☆

Hi, matee!!
Today I got a rare vegetable. Or perhaps I should say I've never seen such a vegie.

It is a "Pure Whith Corn".

Usually, they harvest corns in July and August. But this white corn is shipped from the end of August till the end of September! I'm a great fan of corns and I have just started to miss the summer, corn season. And found this!!! Wow!!

The grains look so white and shine brightly like pearls! (Exaggerating? Actually they name it a Pearl-Corn! lol) The skins are very thin. Its taste? Yep, creamy and really sweet!! Someone put its sweetness as melon. (I'm wondering about that...hehehe)

I did a little research and found that it's from Hokkaido,northernmost of Japan's 47 prefectures, where the temperature deference is extreme. There're lots of delicious foods there, I would talk about it some other time!

I peeled the cornhusk and wrapped it with a wet papersheet and microwaved it for about 5 minutes. I'm afraid I can't call it "cooking",but I guess it's the best way to enjoy its sweeeetness! :)))

Gourds!!!

There're various kinds of 瓜 (gourd,Cucurbitaceae) available in Japan.
Among them, these four below are very popular.
*南瓜 (pumpkin, 南=south, 瓜=gourd )
*胡瓜 or 黄瓜 (cucumber, 胡=a region in China, 黄=yellow)
*西瓜 (water melon, 西=west)
*冬瓜 (winter melon, 冬=winter)

I'd like to introduce 冬瓜 today.
Strange enough, 冬瓜 (winter melon) is a summer vegetable. Then why is it named a winter melon? Because it can be stored until winter!! Wow!!
It has no taste itself but when the soup soak in it, it's so delicious!

If you happen to get one, try this recipe. (It's originally cultivated in Southeast Asia)
1. Peel off the 冬瓜's skin thick and cut
2. Cut some slices of pork
3. Fry 冬瓜 with sesame oil until it get toasted color and take them out
4. Add a little more oil to the pan and fry slices of pork
5. Put 冬瓜 back in the pan and pour a cup of dashi (or consomme), salt, soysauce
6. Simmer it until the soup gets low
7. Bon Appetit!!

Octopus again :D

He caught tons of octopuses this summer.(A fisherman
 I know.) And he gave me frozen octopuses. They tastes really good because they grew in the very nutritious sea.
The best way to enjoy them? Just boil and eat as they are. But I happened to have some potatoes and ingen-beans,so I fried them all together!
As you see, you should boil the frozen octopus first. A few drops soysauce in the boiling water add some flavor to it. About 5〜6minute boil is fine. Then cut it.
Vegetables are a little hard for fry, so heat them in a microwave beforehand.
Then fry them!! I seasoned them with mayonnaise!!
Hmmmm! Yummy!! ♪♪♪

In the fridge ♪

Though I love spaghetti simple with olive oil ,sometimes I use sesame oil for the sake of variety. Just changing the oil makes the dish quite different.
This time I seasoned it with soysauce, gochujang (Korean red chili paste),ground sesame,sake and a little suger---asian taste. But simply with chilli,garlic,salt and pepper would be also great.
One of the good thing about spaghetti is you can cook it with anything in your fridge! (I happened to have sweet red and green pepper,shimeji-mashrooms,carrots and thinly sliced pork meat)
What do yot have in your fridge? :)))