Mushroom Potage

This is made of only mushroom and onion, and so good !

Hiroshima Style Okonomiyaki

This is okonomiyaki in Hiroshima style.
I put yakisoba, cabbage, pork, and cabbage inside.

Lentil Curry

Lentil curry is eaten as sauce on top of rice in India.
Yogurt is another common sauce for rice.
My favorite is yogurt and pickled lemon mixed thoroughly with white rice.

Dahl (Lentil)

 
How to make :
- Boil lentil and add your favorite vegetable and salt in the end.
- You can flavor it with spiced oil.

Baby Taro Curry

I didn't know that Baby Taro (Sato-imo in Japanese) is used in Indian curry till last week when I first time tried it in an Indian restaurant.
I improvised it today, and turned out to be yummy !
Pealing baby taro is a bit of work since it's slippery and makes hands itchy.
After microwave taros for 1 min in microwave, pealing them becomes much easier.

Cauliflower Curry

Cauliflower curry just by itself !

Fried Rice and Seaweed Soup

Key point of Chinese cooking is to stir each ingredient separately and mix them in the end.
Don't try to cook multiple ingredients together !

White Radish and Shrimp Salad 2

I added tomato this time !

Beet Route Salad

Boil a beet route and put on sour cream sauce.
You can microwave whole beet route in stead of boiling.

Steamed Chicken with Green Onion Sauce （鶏の葱ソース）

This is a summer dish in the sense of how it's made and how it tastes.
Steam chicken in microwave and put heavily ginger + onion flavored sauce.
I recently read in a magazine that marinating in salt makes meat tender and juicy.

鶏肉を電子レンジで蒸して塩葱ソースでいただきます。
蒸し煮にしてもいいようです。
作るのも食べるのも汗をかかないですむので、夏にはうってつけの一品。
最近雑誌で読んだところ、肉は塩に一日以上つけると柔らかくなり、味も良くなるようです。

What you need:

- Chicken (thigh meet)　鶏肉（腿肉が一番美味しいかな？）
- Ginger (graded)　（生姜、卸す）
- Green Onion　(葱）
- Onion (graded)　（玉ねぎ、卸す）
- Sake　(酒）
- Salt　(塩）
- Olive oil or some sort of flavored oil（オリーブオイル、葱オイルなど香りの良いもの）

How to make :
1: Marinate chicken to sake, ginger, and salt for 30 min.（鶏肉を酒、生姜、塩につける）
2: Steam chicken.（鶏肉を蒸す）
3: Mix graded ginger, graded onion, sake, salt, oil and juice from chicken.（生姜、卸玉葱、酒、塩、オイルと蒸したときに出た肉汁を混ぜ、ソースを作る）
4: Put chicken in the above sauce, and marinate in fridge till it's chilled.（鶏肉をソースにつけ、冷蔵庫で寝かせる）
5: Garnish with green onion.（葱を散らして完成）

Potato Croquette

Potato croquette is always the best !

Beef Steak with Garlic Rice

American beef is tough compared to Japanese beef.
I should have diced beef before baked it.
Garlic rice with scrambled egg is my favorite company along with beef steak.

Wine Steam Clam

Steam clams in a pan with a lot of white wine, garlic and tomato.
Add lemon and cilantro if you like.

Scallop and Yellow Leak

Chinese yellow leak and Scallop with butter, sake, black pepper sauce.

Borsch

Beat route and Chicken drum stick

Lamb Meat Ball Curry

Tomato based curry with lamb meat ball

Fava Beans and Shrimp

Marinate Fava beans and shrimp in dashi.

In bigger dish

Fried Egg Plant in Dashi

This is egg plant version of Age-dashi-Tofu.
Fry egg plants and marinate them to dashi (Japanese soup stock, soy sauce, sugar, and sake), and top with green onion and graded white radish ( Daikon oroshi).

Sole Fritter on Cone Bed

Sole fritter on pureed cone bed together with Tamarind sauce.

Cauliflower Soup

Cauliflower with milk and pepper ! I always think it should go well with Turmeric, but I've never tried.

Hot and Sour Soup

I was completely shocked when I saw the way a cook in America's Test Kitchen was putting egg in her hot and sour soup... She really invented a new way, but it looked strange to an Asian...
She substitute black vinegar with Balsamic vinegar, and I think that should work.

Sesame Bean Sprout

Boiled bean sprout marinated with spicy sesame dressing

Chinese Crispy Chicken with Sauteed Bakchoy

Bakchoy with crispy chicken

Soy Sauce Chicken and Egg

Use pressure cooker to make chicken completely soft.

Pesto Pasta

Pesto Pasta with Chicken and Orange Pepper

White Radish and Shrimp

I recently came to know that white radish (Daikon, in Japnese) is even available in India,
so I can buy it from inexpensive Indan super market !
I sliced thinly and marinated with mayonnaise and lemon.

Pot au Feu 2

Pot au Feu once again.
I put leak, white radish, and potato in the previous time.
This time, I used potato, onion, cabbage, and carrot.

Banana pancake for brunch

Pancake mix from Trader Joe's turned out to be the best I've ever tried.
Between stacks of pancake, sliced bananas are sandwiched.
Omelet is finished with chihuahua cheese on top.

Methi Curry

Methi leaf is slightly bitter minty leave. This curry is combination of Methi and Spinach.
Dried Methi leaf is used as spice and Methi Potato curry is famous combination using dried Methi.
I'll try it next time !

Lamb Curry

Indian Lamb Curry with tomato sauce.

Indian Paratha Wrap

Bake Malaysian Paratha and wrap up lettuce, guacamolle, mushroom, yellow pepper and sauce.