日本大好き - My First Bento Box

 I always envy so much of the bento box you saw on Japanese drama where mum usually make for their kids at school or wife makes it for husband. And on my recent trip to Japan, I bought some bento making books and found it so interesting and tempted me so much into making a bento box. And here I use the most common bento box dish hamburger steak that I just made and some potato salad and other vegetable to make it look nice and delicious.

日本大好き - Juicy Japanese style Hamburger Steak

 I remember I promise to bring back some inspiration I got while I was traveling in Japan and now I am trying my best to show you what I’ve learn so far. One of the funniest thing in Japan is that their restaurant usually only sell one type of cuisine or dish, such as my favourite ramen place, they literally only sell one single flavour and they have shop all over Japan. I found this is quite amazing to be honest, as long as you make the best food of the kind you can totally survive by just selling one thing.

Oil Poached Salmon with Tomato Salsa and Dill Cream

 

This dish is one of my most recent success challenges that I have done, as oil poached was a pretty new concept of cooking for me and I was surprise it turn out so well for the first timer. It is a dish request by my mum who went on cruise early this year, she told me about the amazing salmon she had on the cruise was so delicious. For those who had tried to pan-fried or bake a salmon fillet before, you know it always turn out to be hard and dried outside and still not cooked inside.

Super Easy 30 minutes Potato Dill Egg Salad

I’m back in Sydney for more than a week now. Finally settle down and kill my post-holiday blue with another holiday end of this year. I’m pretty sure I am very addicted to travel and you cannot believe how depress I am when I just came back from Japan. Seriously Japan is full of delicious food and fun thing to do where I just want to live there. I shall share my Japan Trip with you soon when I start catch up a bit with my study.

I Heart DIY - Homemade Fresh Cuttlefish Ink Pasta

Since my last fresh pasta blog post, I break my old pasta maker which my dad got from supermarket. So I decide to get a better quality one because I’m so determined to make more fresh pasta at home. And luckily I found a good quality second hand pasta maker on eBay which is made in Italy and to be honest it make my life so much easier. Also the reason why I do a fresh pasta blog post again is that I finally find cuttlefish ink at Sydney Fish market which I’ve been looking for years. So I decide to make some black ink pasta with my new recipe and new pasta maker.

日本大好き - 30 minute Yakitori Don 焼き鳥丼

The other night I was looking at one of my favourite Japanese Food Blogger- justonecookbook and suddenly so craving for some yakitori which in English mean grill chicken skewer. But it will be too much hassle to setup a grill just to make some chicken skewer, so Instead of grill, I pan fried it. I love yakitori so much and I always order it at my favourite Japanese restaurant, but I consider it pretty expensive if you order it at restaurant while it actually very easy to made and can be done in 30 minutes.

Fresh Homemade Pasta

 I had a pasta machine at home quite a while ago which my dad usually uses it to making dumpling pastry. This is probably the first time we use it for pasta purpose, as I never thought of making my own while it so cheap and easy to get from super market. But now I don’t think I would like the one from supermarket anymore, homemade fresh pasta taste a million time better than those from store. I’m not joking at all, the texture is more firm and tender texture and also more chewy as well. To be honest, it is the first time I ever made pasta from scratch, it might seem a bit too much work on it but it is totally worth it. 

Sauce lover - Nutty Pesto Sauce

I always dream to own a kitchen where I can own a little garden and grow a lot of spice and fresh herbs. But I guess it did take a lot of commitment when you are trying to grow some plant (I don’t want to kill any plant), so far I only have basil and coriander in my garden (not inside my kitchen but next to my pool, so my dog can't play with it).