Cold Tomato Pasta

Sauteed Mushroom

Ma-po Tofu

White Asparagus Salad

Spicy Bean Sprout

Mix boiled bean sprout with Kochu-jian (Spicy Korean Miso) and garlic.
Spicy salad which lasts for few days.

Marinated Eggplant

Put whole eggplant in oven toaster, and roast it till skin really gets burnt.
Leave it over night, and peal the skin next day.
Marinate chopped eggplants with tomato with soy sauce, sesame oil, red chili and vinegar.

Colored Beats Salad

Slice boiled (or microwaved as whole) colored beats, and top with creamy dressing.
You can use ranch dressing or mixture of mayo & vinegar.
I top it with goat cheese crumble, and fava beans.

Potato Croquet

I made it again !

Brioche French Toast

I used Brioche buns from TJ, and soak in milk & egg mixture lightly.
Bake both side and top with powder sugar.

Pesto Cream Pasta

This is another version of pesto pasta with whipped cream. It's heavy but I made very small portion.

Artichoke Pesto Pasta (アーティチョーク・ペストパスタ)

The sauce is just mixture of canned artichoke, pesto sauce, mozzarella cheese, and fresh tomato (All from TJ). Toss it with boiled pasta. No cooking involved !

Whole Egg Glatin （丸ごと茄子のグラタン）

A friend now has a vegetable garden which produces wonderful vegetables plentifully, and we've got this amazingly beautiful eggplant ! I stuffed it with minced chicken, egg plant, onion, and tomato sauce. Yummy !!!

Japanese vermicelli with marinated eggplant (お素麺と甘酢茄子)

Eggplant Fried Noodle （茄子あんかけそば）

Shrimp and Winter Squash soup (えびと瓜のスープ)

This combination can be stir fried, but I made them into soup for low calorie.

Cucumber and Maitake mushroom soup (きゅうりと舞茸のスープ)

Peeled cucumber and Maitake mushroom soup.

Bitter Gourd and Pork （ニガウリのチャンプルー）

This is a dish eaten often in Okinawa, southern most island in Japan. Saute each ingredients such as biter gourd, pork, scrambled egg, garlic, onion, tofu separately, and mix them in the very end and season it with fish sauce, soy sauce, sugar, sake and black pepper. It will beat summer heat !

Birthday Strawberry Short Cake （ショートケーキ）

Birthday cake is usually strawberry short cake in Japan, but we don't use short bread for the cake,
but use sponge cake which is far far better than short bread.

Beef Bowl （牛丼）

This is similarly popular dish in Japan as Oyako-don (chicek-egg rice bowl)
Simpler version of Sukiyaki if you know it.

BBQ Pork Sparelib (BBQ スペアリブ)

Roast pork spare rib, and put mixture of ketchup & Tonkatsu sauce on it in the last few minutes of baking.