Rice Ball - Onigiri

boiled Japanese rice 2 + some salt +　seaweed　(Nori)

make a small ball with rice and sprinkle some salt.

cut seaweed into 4 strips. put 2 of these like a cross,then put  others like X.

easy & good looking!!

How To Cook Japanese RICE?

There are many types of rice in the world.And we Japanese eat Japonica rice...short,round and sticky. In U.K. such rice is called "SUSHI RICE". 

This time I'll show you the easiest way to cook it. If you can cook it, you can make sushi by your self!   (I'll show you beautiful rice ball-onigiri,flower sushi... next time.)


Japanese rice 2 cup 





Wash with cold water 4 times. 

1 pour clean water and whisk till water will be   white throw away the water 
2 pour clean water and whisk...
3 same
4 same…that’s it!

 



 

  

after washing, pour clean water again. water level is about 1cm over the rice.Then leave 1 hour.













Put a lid on and boil it over high heat about 12min...ideally, some water left over the rice.

Then　remove the pot from the heat quickly and leave it for 15 minutes.

Merry Christmas!

Have a good holiday with your dearest!

cherry tomato,cream cheese, black sesame Santa

cut top of tomato and get rid of seeds and wipe inside by tissue. make cream cheese ball (1tsp) by hand and put into tomato. 

put sesame as eye.

Microwave Custard Pudding -3 ingredients-

Oh...my kids got bad flu.This morning I made pudding for them.
1 Egg +　sugar 1 +　milk 100ml



with honey  you can make it in mug

 

mix egg and sugar by fork very well ... till egg white completely mixed

add milk and mix

microwave 500w 2 mins

Ginger Soy sauce Pork

pork loin steak 1 slice + (soy sauce +　mirin +　rice wine)×1　+　(suger +ginger) 2tsp 

with red onion & cherry tomato & curled parsley

everything into plastic bag and leave 10 mins

and pan-fry saute

enjoy Japanese very traditional meal !

Corn Cream Soup -3 ingedients-

Same amount of milk and cream style canned corn + 1 chicken stock cube


Just heat it till cube melt !If you  like, you can add some double cream.

with black pepper

Tofu Hamburger Steak -2 ingedients-

same amount of tofu and  raw hamburger

with sauce & yellow pepper & dill

mix it up in a plastic bag till tofu become cream

make hamburger shape and pan-fry saute

sauce = same amount of brown sauce + ketchup



yumyum !!