Tuna Salad (ツナサラダ)

Tuna with sliced celery. How easy and nice it is !

Pumpkin Dish（かぼちゃの煮物）

Kabocha is Japanese pumpkin and it's much sweeter than American ones. We flavor it with soy sauce or make pumpkin pie out of it which is much more delicious than American pumpkin pie in my opinion.

Tiramisu (ティラミス)

Tiramisu again ! Putting "Bon Maman" 's raspberry Jam to the mascarpone cheese.

Easiest and creamest sweet ever :)

Ma Po Tofu(麻婆豆腐）

Egg plant season has come ! Put a lot of Chinese pepper (山椒) rather than red chili for flavor.

 

Chichen Egg Rice Bowl(親子丼）

This is a typical homey Japanese dish. Boil chicken with sliced onion, soy sauce, sake, and suger, and finish it with beaten egg. After putting egg, turn off the heat, and put lid on it so that egg does not get so hard. Usually, served with Mitsuba leaf (some sort of Japanese herb).

Cucumber Slice

somebody sliced cucumber and put it nicely :p

Chicken with Apricot Sauce（アプリコットソースチキン）

 Roasted chicken (as usual in toaster oven with a lots of good olive oil & Garlic) with apricot sauce. Served with colored green and summer squash saute.

Eggplant and Fried Tofu (なすと揚げだし豆腐)

Typical Japanese meal for one nice Sunday branch !
I roast whole egg plants in toaster oven, and left them overnight so that next day I can peel the skin easily. Then marinate them in soy sauce, suger, vinegar, and a bit of red chilli.
Tofu (Atsuage) was purchased, but you can deep fly tofu by your self to make Atsu-age ("thick fry"), and serve it with egg plants.

Triple Berry Smoothie

Refreshing drink in hot weather.

Chicken Ragout Pasta (チキントマトシチューの残りでパスタ)

This is the second day menu after Chicken Tomato Ragout :p

Chicken Tomato Ragout（チキントマトシチュー）

This menu was served in my elementary school back i n Japan. It's chicken ragout with tomato ketchup, but I put more tomato sauce rather than ketchup.

How to Make:
- Saute chicken drum stick, sliced carrots and onion in Le Creuset.
- Put a can of beer and boil till chicken gets cooked.
- Add tomato sauce (pasta sauce) ketchup, pepper, and red wine.

Onion Soup & Garlic Bread（オニオンスープとガーリックパン）

Green Pea Soup (グリーンスープのポタージュ）

Eggplant Lasagna (なすのラザニア)

Recently I started making this dish because it's good and easy !

How to Make:
- Saute eggplant 
- Microwave lasagna pasta with water till it's done
- Layer pasta sauce, egg plant and lasagna pasta.
- Add cheese on the top
- Put aluminum foil on the top till it starts sizzling, then remove foil if you want to brown the top of the cheese.

Rosemary Garlic Potato (ローズマリーポテト）

Rosemary Potato again !
Just bake Yukon Gold potatoes tossed with olive oil, garlic, and rock salt in oven toaster.

Zuccini Flower Salad(ズッキーニの花のサラダ）

Well, flowers shrank quite a lot after sauteed, so I should buy more next time !
Zuccini flower with goat cheese and pine nuts.

Mushroom Pasta

Put mushroom in peperoncino

Rice porridge

Got sick, and cooked rice porridge

Potato Curry

Usual potato curry with a lot of garlic and green onion

Chicken Curry

I made chicken curry with a lot of nuts !

Mozzarella, Tomato, and Prosciutto Salad (モッザレラ、トマトとプロシュートのサラダ)

Mozzarella, Tomato, Prosciutto, Basil, Lime, extra virgin olive oil, sea salt.... What can go wrong with mixing them together ???

I had it with Pasta Peperoncino

Mongo !

Mango season is coming !

Tandori Chicken and Colored Green (タンドリチキンとカラードグリーン)

Indian people don't eat chicken skin, so normally Tandori chicken does not have skin. I thought crispy spicy chicken skin would taste wonderful, and I kept it unpeeled. Yes ! it tasted very good !
I won't peel it any more :p Prepared yogurt sauce with mint and red onion to ease spiciness.

Final look ,

Eggplant Lasagna （なすのラザニア）

Sauteed eggplan in fry pan with olive oil and garlic, and put them in Lasagna. You can microwave lasagna pasta, layered 2,3 sheets of pasta with tomato sauce, egg plant, and  put cheese on the top. It tastes like Eggplant Parmesan, but much easier to make.

Asparagus Salad (アスパラとゆで卵のサラダ)

Asparagus salad again ! yes, it's the season of Asparagus. It tastes really sweet and refreshing.  Adding chopped red onion, boiled egg, mayo, vinegar, and salt.

Rosemary Potato（ローズマリーポテト）

I've got organic potato from farmer's market last weekend. I've heard from friends that organic potato makes a big difference since root veges absorb and accumulate essence from soil.
I put garlic, rosemary from pot, and rock salt on the potatoes, and bake them in toaster oven. Voila ! It's soooo good !

Green Pea Rice （グリーンピースご飯）

It's telling the spring arrival ! Adding green peas, sake, and a bit of salt when you steam rice in rice cooker.

Green Pea Soup with Black Truffle Oil (グリーンピースのポタージュ、黒トリュフオイルで)

I've got this amazing black truffle infused olive oil from a super market in Stanford Shopping Center. It's sold only in that market and redwood city. There are other flavors such as basil, mushroom, French spice, etc, and they are all very good. It'll make a dish special just drizzling a bit.
I boiled green peas, add milk, soup stock, salt, soy milk cream, and blend it with hand mixer. As itself, it's refreshing and good, but adding a bit of truffle olive oil brings it to the next level.

 

Colored Green (カラードグリーン）

I've been trying out new vegetables and colored green is one of them. It's colorful and fun vegetable.

Today's dinner is full of veges !

Asparagus with Melted Cheese (アスパラガスととろけるチーズ）

Nothing goes wrong with this combination ! Adding black pepper add some more kick to it.