Matcha latte( green tea latte) ♥

Ingredients

 1/2tea spoon of Matcha(green tea powder) *1
 1/2tea spoon of sugar
 1tea spoon of hot water

3/4 Cup (150cc)    milk

How to make
 1. Pour Matcha and sugar in the tea cup. Mix  matcha  and sugar with hot water.

 2. Warm milk with microwave oven for 1minute and half to 2 minutes.  ( it depends on the microwave oven condition.)    Or warm milk.
 3. Whisk warmed milk with a whisk.

4. Pour whisked milk into 1. the macha slowly to pay attention not to distinguish whisk.

To draw the Matcha latte

5. Wave Matcha with a tea strainer from the top.

6. Pour whisked milk again.

7. Draw a picture with a toothpick as you like.

*1 Matcha is a green tea powder. For keeping Matcha you can freeze it. Before use it, you can defrost it.

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ikura ~salmon eggs marinated with soy sauce~

Now is the best season for getting raw salmon eggs in Japan. If you get fresh salmon eggs, you can easiliy make ikura.
Please pay attention to select fresh fresh salmon eggs.

Ingredients

 2parts of salmon raw eggs

for marinated sauce    4:4:1= soy sauce: sake: mirin   and    add    dashi  ( as you like  )
1/4 cup (60cc )      soy sauce
1/4 cup (60cc )      sake*1
1Table spoon of (15cc) mirin*2
100cc dashi*3

How to make
 1. To make marinated sauce
     Boil soy sauce , sake and mirin for the flavor and add dashi.
     To cool it naturally. (Please wait until it becomes cool. If you are hurry, you can cool it in   the refrigerator.)
2.  Pour boiled water on part of salmon raw eggs  to tear skin off easily.

    

3. Divide it into eggs and skin. ( we use only eggs.)

 

 

4. Mix divided raw salmon eggs and marinated sauce and preserve it in the refrigerator. You can keep

   it for 4-5 days in the refrigerator.

Ikura is match for boiled rice!!  Also we use ikura for ikura sushi!!

 

*1 sake  http://global.rakuten.com/en/store/shunsake/item/naranusanshuset_900/

*2 mirin http://global.rakuten.com/en/store/kinmei/item/sannnennjukuseimirin500/

*3 dashi http://japanesehomecooking-okaasan.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.html

Sukiyaki

 Sukiyaki is a dish of thinly sliced beef, shiitake mushroom ,Chinese cabbage , welsh onion ,garland chrysanthemum  and  tofu cooked in an iron pan at the table.

It is seasoned  wth soy sauce, sake, sugar, and mirin. When you eat sukiyaki with beaten egg, it become more delicious.

Ingredients

warishita ( soy based sukiyaki sauce )

     100cc soy sauce

     50cc mirin

     50cc sake

     3 Table spoon of sugar

800g~1kg thinly sliced beef

1/4 chinese cabbage

1 welsh onion

4~5 shiitake mushirooms

1/4 garland chrysanthemum( if any)

1 tofu

1 piece of beef fat.

How to make

1. To make warishita. Mix soy sauce, mirin, sake, and sugar.

2. To prepare for the ingredients.   Slice  welsh  onion chinese cabbage and  garland chrysanhtemum.

Cut the axis of shiitake mushrooms and cut tofu into bite size pieces.

3. To prepare table cooker*１　and an iron pan at the table.

4. Heat the iron pan and put beef fat. When the beef fat melt, steak  2-3pieces sliced beef .

    Put all ingredients and pour warishita and put the cover on the pan and make it a low temparature.

    Boil sukiyaki while waiting for water to flow from vegetables and the color of beef changes to white.

5. When you eat sukiyaki with beaten egg in indiviual dish, it become more delicious.

  

 table cooker*1 (portable gus stove)

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Sports festival

October 10th is a Sports Day in Japan. Sports festival of schools is held in many places.

We bring "obento" and have a lunch like a picnic with our family and frind's family.

That is  fun!!

Norimaki ( Sushi roll )

Ingredients
 1) rice for sushi (basic)
    300g boiled rice   
                              http://japanesehomecooking-okaasan.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-to-make-rice.html
 
     sushi-vinegar (mixed vinegar for sushi)
      3Table spoons of rice vinegar (45ml)
      2Table spoons of sugar  (30ml)
      1/2Table spoon of salt(7ml)
      *mixed together and boil for a minutes.
      *If you can't make sushi vinegar, you can easily get sushi-vinegar  here.
                               http://global.rakuten.com/en/store/master/item/x754330h0000/

 2)ingredients for rolled sushi
  8sheets Nori *seaweed
                              http://global.rakuten.com/en/store/nori-tomizou/item/wakeari-set/
 

  1 tamago-yaki ( Japanese omelet )

  1 avocado
  1/2 sliced  cucumber
  8piecies of crab meat or *kani-kama(cheap not real crab)
                                   http://global.rakuten.com/en/store/cocotte-vert/item/kanikama-slice/
  80gram canned tuna
  2Table spoon of mayonnaise

How to make

 1. Prepare for the sushi -rice.
       mixed boiled rice and sushi vinegar in a bowl.
 2. Make tamago yaki(Japanese omelet)
      mixed 2 eggs and 1Table spoon of sugar)
      Pour 1tea spoon of vegetabole oil in a pan, and add 1/2egg and folding. And pour rest of egg and
      folding.
  3. Prepare for the all ingredients.
       slice avocado and cucumber and tamagoyaki (Japanese omelet).
       crab meat or kanikama.
1.                                                                3.

                                       

4. Put  nori seaweed and sushi -rice on a makisu*.

          *http://global.rakuten.com/en/store/chefs-kitchen-gourmet/item/y-rd015-003/

   And cover nori seaweed. (It's easier to roll rice and ingredients.)

5. Put all ingredients at the center of the rice.

  

6. Rolling it.

  

7. Wrap rolling sushi with plastic wrap to avoid to dry. You can keep it before you serve sushi-roll.

8. Cut sushi-roll into bite size. You can easily cut sushi roll pieces after you wet knife with wet papaers.