FOOD PORN - 24 - Vegetarian-ish Chicken Pasta

Today's dinner is really easy. Just have some left over veggies from yesterday and just cook them all together with 1.5mil pasta. Thai style I believe? Fish sauce based.

今日は昨日の残りの食材で作り出しました。タイのスタイルです。適当に美味しいです。

Very easy dish with the leftover vegetable from yesterday.

Took me a while to choose the meat though. Because there were couple of things that down to half price. This chicken was enough for me.. not too much

NAME!

VEGETARIAN-ISH CHICKEN PASTA

Basically,

Ingredients:

Just the veggies that you want to put, mine has

Peas

Carrot

Onion

Garlic

Asparagus

Cucumber

Small leek

Fish sauce and Oyster sauce

Chili

Chicken (half price of course)

Pasta (I used the 1.5 mil one)

Firstly, cut all the veggies and leave it for now

I used the leftover oil from yesterday fish (was olive oil). Start with garlic then chicken. Let the chicken cook for a while then add in the rest of the veggies. Keep cooking it

I took these 3 photos because I want to show you that. You just have to keep string it over and over until it looks good. In this process, I add fish sauce, Oyster sauce, and pepper.

You can start boiling the pasta now, which should takes about 5 mins. The veggies should be soft and nice looking enough right at the time when the pasta is cooked.

Then, just mix them all up.

DONE!

This is really easy dish and it turned out pretty good.

If you are hungry after reading this blog. Please EAT! Eating is good for your health!!!

FOOD PORN - 23 - Cod on the Red Beach

Got home a bit early today and was thinking about what I should make for dinner. Went to the supermarket and found out that my dinner choice was all based on the meat. So I went to check the meat section and got this half price cod fish. SO! The dinner will based on that. I do not know what this dish call, so I will name it, Cod on the Red Beach! First time making this but it tasted wonderful!

今日の晩御飯はこちらです！白魚と野菜と色々！赤ワイン付！魚は半額なっているのでそれでベースになっていました。初めて作ったですが、美味しかったです！

One of the first-time making and a little bit looking like some grand menu out of some restaurant. (At least that is what I think ahaha) I created this meal out of randomness!

The ingredients and everything in the dish is basically out of imagination which I think they should fit in the meal.

I have developed a way to choose my dinner which start from the cheapest possible kind of meat on the shelves in the supermarket near my place. From there, I started to look through the rest of the veggies that could fit with the meat. It could be chicken, fish, pork, or beef. Of course, veggies are more expensive in this case, but I only use a few of them. I can keep those veggies for other meals as well. (After this dinner, I think I will have enough veggies for about 2 days or so.)

*Oh and I do not know if that is actual cod or not, just I think that it looks like it XDDD!!! Spare me for names

Here is the menu!

COD ON THE RED BEACH

Ingredients’

Cod fish (half price)

Carrot

Cucumber

Peas

Chili

Onions

Garlic

Red Wine

Asparagus

Before going into the how-to, here is the wine for today!!!!  2011

Quite bit and sweet at the same time. Great for tasting!

Start off with cutting all the veggies into pieces that you think they look nice.

I fried out the onions first. For this, I cut it very thin because I only want it to be crisped. Fry this onion alone and leave it aside. Then you can start cooking the veggies

For the veggies, I add salt and white wine into it just for spicing.

While I am working with the veggies, prepare the fish. Use a very low heat in this case. I use olive oil for it.

Prepare the plate with olive oil and red wine (I don’t even know why I put red wine in it loll)

Then put the cooked veggies in the plate. Anddd top it with the fish then the onions..

DONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I really love how this turn out because it just taste really awesome.

If you are getting hungry after reading this post, go eat! Even if it is late!!! Ahahaha!!!

FOOD PORN - 22 - Fried Ginger Chicken

Here you go! I am BACK!!! Have not write this food section for awhile. My work is really busy lately as well! 

Got home today and was thinking about what to make for today's dinner. Then, because I have this ginger in my fridge, so why not make a good use of it right? ahah.. I kinda fail making this last time because I had too much water, but I got the way to cook it now. My secret receipt of my family! Fried Ginger Chicken. Now, I got it right. totally.


 今日はすごく迷って、何を作ろうと思ったら、冷蔵庫で生姜が残ってて、作りました。私の家族の得意料理、チキン生姜焼きです！とても濃くて美味しい！


So, as I said before, the menu today is!!!!

FRIED GINGER CHICKEN!!!!


A very very very easy dish for almost everyone..The only thing that you need to care about for this dish is the fish sauce... just that I guess? or.. how to cut veggies...

Ingredients,
Ginger
Chicken (this can be any meat as well, pork or beef works, but chicken taste the best)
garlic 

Here are the steps,

Cut ginger and smash the garlic.

The trick to this menu lies here. 
You have to cook the ginger and garlic with VERY LOW HEAT until the ginger is dry.
What I meant by dry, it means that the ginger will not give out any water anymore. It looks like it is completely out of water. 

Then you can start adding in the chicken.

Fried them all together. Control your heat, heat up or lower it down is totally up to you. 
I spice it with soy sauce, fish sauce, pepper, and basil powder 
Keep string it until the chicken is completely cook.

DONE!!!!

The ginger will not taste spicy at all. It will just be as crispy / tasty. 

However, the total smell will still be ginger though!

If you are hungry after reading this post, please EATTT!!!! EATING MAKE YOUR LIFE BETTER!!!!

Kawaguchiko Trip to Lavender Garden

Went to Kawaguchiko today.. while wearing goggle... because of the pollen and the PM which will prolly makes my situation worse. But here are the pics! Lavender Park. 

There were  too many people there... like shit loads of people who tried to take pics of the Fuji, but there was a cloud blocked the way.. poor them

今日は河口湖に行きました。ラベンダー公園です、大石のところ。まだ目がやばいので、ゴーグルとマスクです！（仮面ライダーみたいですよ。。。）これは今日の写真です！

途中のうどんです。。大きいです。マジで

Dating Trend

Let's get back to regular post ! ahah I have been out of date on posting something normal here. Too much food porn! 

It is something that I personally observed here in Japan recently on how trends has been shifting around. 

Dating 

This trend is shifting rapidly. Work place problem or not be able to find someone they like. This might goes into personal ideal but just in general. 

There might be quite a few reasons behind it which include:

1. No weird Rumors 
         I know no one want this to happen especially in your work place. If you are 100% sure that you can stay along side with your partner well, then that is great! But things spread fast. I do think that people here with the extremely low rate of getting the job itself will want bad rumors about themselves going around and force them into depression or even leave the job. Again, there are many people who married their partners from the same company. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it. 

2. Jobs
        I kind of wrote it already.. But yea, because people in Japan are trying their best to get jobs, it is very hard for them to lose it, especially female. 

3. Online dating
       This might sound scary, but yes, it is true. With all the lowering chances of meeting partners, people tends to go online more often. Along with the increasingly more popular in dating sites. It has become booms now in Japan. This still remains scary no matter what though. 

4. Gaijin
       Lately, Japan cooperates and TVCM, you can obviously see the different. They are using more and more foreigner models in them. One is because Japan lacks people and the intelligence section is dying out due to lack of new generation. But yea, there are more foreigners in media commercials and companies. 

5. Wedding
       I do think that everyone knows that the population in Japan is decreasing rapidly. Many of the wedding companies are trying to promote themselves as much as they can. The wedding ceremony fliers or posters are almost everywhere in the trains. They are trying to promote people to get marry and well... ultimately have more kids.... 

There should be more into the topic and I might be wrong as well. This is just what I think that it might be the factors for this topic. Hopefully, Japanese population will increase !!!

Cheers

FOOD PORN - 21 - BROCCOLI MEAT FARM ON FIRE

Today dinner is quite special and cheap! Got home around 10 today and then start to cook this food out. The meat is half price and I have some stuff left in the fridge to make the use of.

今日は夜までに忙しいですが、安いものを見つけました！半額の牛焼肉！後はもう家に残ってる食材で使いました

The menu today is!!!!!

BROCCOLI MEAT FARM ON FIRE!!!!! 燃えたブロコリーの畑と焼き牛

Hahahahaha I hate my own naming sense…

HAHAAHAHA 

So here is how-to !!!

Ingredients

Meats (mine already spiced a bit)

Broccoli

Garlic

Sauce and spices all you want

Sugar

Edible chili oil

After you prepare everything,

Start stir frying the broccoli with the chili oil until it looks good enough.

Add in the meat

Keep cooking. In this process, I added pepper, fish sauce, soy sauce, and sugar

Cook it until the meat looks cooked enough.

DONEEEE!!!!

Easy right???

The taste is beyond what you can think of.

It is basically sweet and a bit spicy. The meat is super soft as well!

If you are reading this and you are hungry, EAT please!! I want you to eat!!!!