My cooking!
05/09/08 09:09 Filed in: JET
My first time cooking!
Take a look
I bought lots of spices, fish vegetables for the week.
Need to cut down on eating out so on Sunday, 2 days after I arrived in Sapporo I started cooking. I guess I have to thank my mom because I’ve seen her cook and I actually asked why she did whatever she does in the kitchen. I also had a hand in helping out but htat was when I was very very young. She showed me how to cook fried rice. That lesson came in really handy now!
lots of ingredients and spices not photographed. But you get the idea.
The following photos are in chronological order.
My first dish!
17 August
For dinner. Not too bad actually. I could eat it. The carrot are a bit tough. I’ll learn from this.
18 August: Fried rice for breakfast. A bit band though. Next time will be better.
18 August: Dinner. Wanted to cook prata...but decided not to because I don't have the recipe for it. Ended up frying prawn fritters...looking more like tiny pancakes to me. But I was hungry so..
19 August: Dinner. i like this dinner. Fried egg, prawns and crab stick, anchovies, carrots and potato and green leafy vegetables. I like it.
21 August: Breakfast
Chocolate and blueberry jam spread on 2 thick slices of bread respectively. Loaf of bread here are cut in thick slices. Unlike those from Singapore.
22 August: Breakfast.
Egg and salad sandwich for breakfast. Its good.
23 August: lunch
Rice with unagi (eel), slices of salmon, prawns, anchovies, spring onions an seaweed crumbs. nice even though the unagi is a bit burnt at the top. Will take note of that the next time I cook unagi. There’s also strips of salmon meat. Very nice!
23 August: Dinner.
Dinner. Unagi slice. The unagi looks better now! Fried breaded prawns, Egg sunny side up, slice of salmon. I like the salmon. Sprinkles of fried anchovies, tomatoes, onions and negi (spring onions). My verdict. Best dinner so far.
24 August: Lunch.
I wanted to cook something else besides rice with dishes. I remembered how the cook did the okonomiyaki in front of me at a restaurant. So I decided to try. So here is the process!
Okonomiyaki and rice with salmon sprinkles wrapped in seaweed. The rice (gohan) was ok. I need to improve my skill on making sushi or onigiri.
I actually failed this day. So the rice cake ended up looking like that in the picture. But the okonomiyaki is good! Even though I didn’t put the okonomiyaki sauce. I didn’t buy it because I couldn’t remember if there was any to be put on.
24 August: Dinner
Tofu dish with tomato and egg white scrambled in it. Nice. Not complete without rice below.
My complete dinner. With potato wedges. I like this dinner.
25 August. Lunch and dinner.
Okay. Right about this day, 1 week after I started cooking, I felt that time would be better spent if I were to cook a larger portion so that I don’t have to cook twice in a day.
So, I decided to cook half a pot of vegetable soup with tofu. Big Mistake. I just remembered back in high school that I can’t really gauge how nice things would taste if it is to be cooked for a serving for 2 or more people. So this soup you see in this photo above tasted too peppery and garlicky. It lacks something that would make soup taste nice. Maybe chicken stock or anchovies. But I did put some anchovies inside. Maybe its not that same with anchovie stock powder.
But the dinner is not all that bad. I had salmon and crab meat. So those saved the dish.
26 August: Dinner
Rice, unagi (very nice) fried breaded prawn (nice) and fried mish mash of vegetables, egg, prawn, crab meat and anchovies
27 August: Dinner
okonomiyaki 3rd edition! I found out that okonomiyaki sauce contains sake (rice wine) So I don't use. It taste nice without it so its all good.
30 August: Dinner
Tofu dish with vegetables, egg, prawn, and anchovies and chopped chicken franks (hot dog).
31 August: Dinner.
The fried chicken tastes so good. I can't remember how I marinated it. Bought the chicken meat at a halal store/restaurant run by a javanese family. The store is 4 blocks awaay from the Hokkaido University and 1 block away from the newy inaugurated mosque in sapporo.
1 September: Dinner.
Fried egg, crab stick and vegetables. By this time I don't know what else to cook so I cook to eat for survival hahaha
3 September: Dinner
Chopped chicken franks and anchovies, wrapped in omelette, tuna (really good with the seasoning) and vegetables.
Yeah. I can cook.
Take a look
I bought lots of spices, fish vegetables for the week.
Need to cut down on eating out so on Sunday, 2 days after I arrived in Sapporo I started cooking. I guess I have to thank my mom because I’ve seen her cook and I actually asked why she did whatever she does in the kitchen. I also had a hand in helping out but htat was when I was very very young. She showed me how to cook fried rice. That lesson came in really handy now!
lots of ingredients and spices not photographed. But you get the idea.
The following photos are in chronological order.
My first dish!
17 August
For dinner. Not too bad actually. I could eat it. The carrot are a bit tough. I’ll learn from this.
18 August: Fried rice for breakfast. A bit band though. Next time will be better.
18 August: Dinner. Wanted to cook prata...but decided not to because I don't have the recipe for it. Ended up frying prawn fritters...looking more like tiny pancakes to me. But I was hungry so..
19 August: Dinner. i like this dinner. Fried egg, prawns and crab stick, anchovies, carrots and potato and green leafy vegetables. I like it.
21 August: Breakfast
Chocolate and blueberry jam spread on 2 thick slices of bread respectively. Loaf of bread here are cut in thick slices. Unlike those from Singapore.
22 August: Breakfast.
Egg and salad sandwich for breakfast. Its good.
23 August: lunch
Rice with unagi (eel), slices of salmon, prawns, anchovies, spring onions an seaweed crumbs. nice even though the unagi is a bit burnt at the top. Will take note of that the next time I cook unagi. There’s also strips of salmon meat. Very nice!
23 August: Dinner.
Dinner. Unagi slice. The unagi looks better now! Fried breaded prawns, Egg sunny side up, slice of salmon. I like the salmon. Sprinkles of fried anchovies, tomatoes, onions and negi (spring onions). My verdict. Best dinner so far.
24 August: Lunch.
I wanted to cook something else besides rice with dishes. I remembered how the cook did the okonomiyaki in front of me at a restaurant. So I decided to try. So here is the process!
Okonomiyaki and rice with salmon sprinkles wrapped in seaweed. The rice (gohan) was ok. I need to improve my skill on making sushi or onigiri.
I actually failed this day. So the rice cake ended up looking like that in the picture. But the okonomiyaki is good! Even though I didn’t put the okonomiyaki sauce. I didn’t buy it because I couldn’t remember if there was any to be put on.
24 August: Dinner
Tofu dish with tomato and egg white scrambled in it. Nice. Not complete without rice below.
My complete dinner. With potato wedges. I like this dinner.
25 August. Lunch and dinner.
Okay. Right about this day, 1 week after I started cooking, I felt that time would be better spent if I were to cook a larger portion so that I don’t have to cook twice in a day.
So, I decided to cook half a pot of vegetable soup with tofu. Big Mistake. I just remembered back in high school that I can’t really gauge how nice things would taste if it is to be cooked for a serving for 2 or more people. So this soup you see in this photo above tasted too peppery and garlicky. It lacks something that would make soup taste nice. Maybe chicken stock or anchovies. But I did put some anchovies inside. Maybe its not that same with anchovie stock powder.
But the dinner is not all that bad. I had salmon and crab meat. So those saved the dish.
26 August: Dinner
Rice, unagi (very nice) fried breaded prawn (nice) and fried mish mash of vegetables, egg, prawn, crab meat and anchovies
27 August: Dinner
okonomiyaki 3rd edition! I found out that okonomiyaki sauce contains sake (rice wine) So I don't use. It taste nice without it so its all good.
30 August: Dinner
Tofu dish with vegetables, egg, prawn, and anchovies and chopped chicken franks (hot dog).
31 August: Dinner.
The fried chicken tastes so good. I can't remember how I marinated it. Bought the chicken meat at a halal store/restaurant run by a javanese family. The store is 4 blocks awaay from the Hokkaido University and 1 block away from the newy inaugurated mosque in sapporo.
1 September: Dinner.
Fried egg, crab stick and vegetables. By this time I don't know what else to cook so I cook to eat for survival hahaha
3 September: Dinner
Chopped chicken franks and anchovies, wrapped in omelette, tuna (really good with the seasoning) and vegetables.
Yeah. I can cook.
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