February update, lovely things to eat.

Ok, I might be getting quite lazy with this blog so I'm starting to change it by posting a selection of delicious looking food. Later on I'll post about the New Year's Eve cake adventure (at February, yeah... I know, I KNOW). Also I'll be uploading some pics that I took from homemade pizza. yum.
Also, I'm not sure what I'll be planning for Valentine's I've been very dissapointed for years so I might just NOT do a thing. Otherwise I might get depressed for the millionth time. But that doesn't mean I won't do an interesting meal. Even one for the month shall do it I believe.
Keep in touch!

This is okayu, the japanese version of porridge... Basically rice with lots of water so it's moisture and soggy and I actually found it really nice. It's said that okayu is generally made for sick people, so if you've got flu you get this and it's good for your health. Also people only eat this while sick and tend to go down in weight so when you get well people ask you "How many pounds did you loose?" instead of "are you feeling well now?" It's pretty funny.

This is mom's b-day fruit tart, we had it for late supper so she didn't want something heavy like cake. Sorry for the pic, the flash messed it up badly but hey, it was nine o'clock into the night. I couldn't help it. (u_u);

Here's one of my most favorite desserts, it's called 'pumpkin' thought it has nothing to do with real pumpkins, this is a delicious bread bun cut open and filled with custard, coverred with nice icing sugar. My mouth starts melting just thinking about it.


This is a lovely dessert I bought long time ago, strawberries and cream, all covered in chantilly cream. I admit I didn't like the chantilly since it was from those disgusting cans instead of fresh made, but the strawberries were absolutely delicious! Really worth the cost (about 2.7 dollars), i'm definately buying them again.

This is a project I did the other day, transparent noodles salad mixed with sweet chinese beans and grilled salmon covered with a nice sour ponzu sauce. Mom didn't really like it at first while looking but after tasting it she absolutely loved it. It has that oriental taste but is not overwhelming and the ingredients go really well toghether. You can have this as a whole dish but I like having many different dishes so I made some miso to go with it.

Bought bento and senbei

Mikasa is a place I like to visit a lot, not only for it's food but also when I'm low on ingredients it's the best place to go and stock. It's basically a japanese mart so I can find anything I need for my meals.
Also there is the fast food zone where I can buy almost anything, from sushi to daifukus. My boyfriend and I went for dinner and here's what we bought.


This is my boyfriend's california roll, he always picks it up so I'm no longer amazed he chooses it, the good thing is that they put some tampico sauce on top of each piece so it's a nice flavor.


This is mine, I've been wanting to get one of these for some time now, hence I got it. It's a bento and it has small portions of different foods to taste. There was a cucumber salad, fried pork, shrimp, salmon and some other things I don't know the name of but tasted really nice. And the best thing of this bento is that it had a small pot of camelia, a dessert I really adore consisting in coffee gelatin mixed with a sweet coffee liqueur sauce. d(>///<)b


Finally, I got myself a pack of snacks called senbei, these are rice crackers that are eaten just like chips are for us, they taste really great since they taste of soy sauce and the green dots over there are peas, toasted and with a twist of wasabi.

Japanese again =3

I like japanese food, I think everyone notices that by now. Last day I decided to prepare a japanese breakfast and made some misoshiro. I lacked some ingredients but it was absolutely delicious. A great start for the day. On the other hand, I could never be full with just a bowl of soup for breakfast so I also made some tamagoyaki (egg omelette) to go with it.

I cut an avocado for presentation. Also because I like it =P

Now, my true problem here is that my tamagoyaki never EVER looks right, of course the taste is great, I have managed to find the exact point of salty and sweet that I like. Presentation on the other side is awful. I believe one of my biggest problems there is the fact that in the whole family only I eat tamagoyaki, mom and dad don't like the taste of it and my daughter generally makes a fuzz of eating egg before going to school (I'm not sure why though... because she does like it.). Also I don't like to eat more that one egg because I believe two are far too much cholesterol in my organism. Oh well... let's hope I make it right one of these days.
Keeping on with the subject, last time I went to mikasa I bought a bag of Kabaya's Muscat Candy and I just LOVE the taste. If you have tasted Kasugai's muscat gummies then you already understand the amazing taste of this candy. And what's the big plus of it? That it lasts far more than a gummy. ;3

Aki Matsuri

So this is it! The so much expected aki matsuri had come.
As we live in Mexico the festival is held on the mexican-japanese asociation and is like some sort of kermesse. There are booths where you can play and maybe win a price, food sellers, a stage and also a karaoke.
Needless to say, I went there with the single and purposeful intention of having a go at the food. As we have the Mikasa I can always taste some nice food but at the Aki Matsuri you can have some other things that are more difficult to find on a daily base, or at least ready to be eaten.

Here are the culprits of my current guilt. =P

One of those things were the odango. You know, those cute rice balls that are covered with different dressings. Mine were three, two of them had a shiromiso dressing that tasted salty yet sweet and was really good, I'm not sure of the dressing name so I think I'll have to go and make some research. The last one was of course a sweet anko covered dango. This anko was not entirely crushed and so you could bite some of the beans which was good. Thinking on how soft and deliciously sticky the odango are. I had them with some o-cha, though I'm pretty sure it was actually houji-cha and it was all good. The day was pretty cloudy and cold but everyone was having a lot of fun.
My daughter bought a bun filled with anko for herself and I got myself a daifuku, wich is currently in the fridge, because I had a lot of dangos and I'm afraid of gaining a lot of extra weight. =P

The close up. X3

We also got ourselves some candies and I already tasted the lichee one, it tastes great actually, it's a fresh flavor and the sweetnes is ok. I was afraid of it because Kasugai tends to put a lot of sugar... but it depends on the sweet I guess.

A sample of the bunch we bought.

Seven Days Diet, Day 7.

Day 7. Of rice and juice.

Photo taken from HERE

Yay! I have finally reached my last day of diet and I believe this was the best day ever. I had to eat all the rice I wanted to and fruit and vegetable juices. Many might wonder how on earth I liked it that much since it seems pretty restricted but it was rather easy for me as I'm a rice lover. Specially japanese rice. So I made a huge batch (a least only for myself) of gohan and tried it in several ways.
At breakfast I had it with a bit of mirin, rice vinegar and soy sauce dressing, I know rice ain't supposed to be prepared with soy sauce but this being the only food for the day I thought "Why not?". For supper I had it with ebi furikake and on dinner I made it with green tea, like some sort of soup. It tastes great actually but I didn't have any ginger or so, hence I had to have without additional flavors. But anyways, it was cool.

Photo taken from HERE

I made myself different juices for the day. I made a tomato one, orange and papaya, papaya and mango and wanted to try a melon with apple but I was full by the end of the day. It was a very interesting way to try new things and I never felt hunger throughout the day so I daresay this day was an absolute hit.

Photo taken from HERE

Now, about the weight. I did this for loosing weight and I definitely had. I lost 3 k. Had I done this diet very strict without any sins like the cake of mom's b-day I could have lost around 5 k. So I think this is an absolute win. I shall do it again soon in order to keep on losing more of those extra kilos. For now I shall give it a rest for a couple of days.

Mikafé

Y bien, el sábado pasado Kei me llevó a pasear y a tomar algo al Mikafé. De entrada no puedo dar muy buenas opiniones sobre el aspecto exterior del local ya que la calle donde se encuentra está en construcción. El interior es muy pequeño, aunque está bien arreglado, sus paredes son naranjas y tiene paneles de pvc rectangulares con imagenes de anime en las paredes.
Algo interesante es que tiene una gran variedad de revistas japonesas acomodadas en unos racks, fue interesante tomar una de ellas y hojearla, me hubiera gustado ser capaz de llevarmela conmigo.
Como era media tarde y acababamos de desayuno-comer no teníamos mucha hambre. Así que pedimos un té para los dos, takoyaki y un tampico roll.

El té en realidad se trataba de una infusión de jengibre fresco cortado en julianas largas. Lo pedí frío pero seguía tibio cuando me lo llevaron. Tenía un buen sabor aunque se sentía mucho el picante del té, afortunadamente le habían puesto bastante azúcar y era soportable.

De todo lo que nos sirvieron, el takoyaki fué lo más sabroso. Era crocante y tenía salsa agridulce, cebollinos, hojas de bonito seco y mayonesa encima. Estaban calientitos y de hecho estaba tan rico el plato que poco faltó para que me lo terminara sin haber tomado una fotografía antes.

El tampico roll estaba... 'bien'. Por no decir menos, a la salsa tampico le faltaba el chile y el arroz estaba algo seco, aunque el rollo en sí estaba bien hecho y no sabía mal. Kei y yo descubrimos que de hecho las piezas sabían muy pero muy rico aderezadas con la salsa agridulce de los takoyaki.
Nunca antes había estado en este lugar, fue mi primera vez y creo que está mucho más padre para ir en bola (aunque el espacio del local impide multitudes). A menos claro que vayas a comer algo en serio y quieras disfrutar un rato con tu pareja. Otra cosa que lamento es que no tenían luz en el local así que no pude comer postre. Quería un pan con crema pastelera pero no tenían donde calentarlo.
En fin, para pasar un rato con Kei fue una experiencia divertida, pero creo que tendremos que volver en un momento en el que ya no tengan problemas de electricidad y el pavimento haya sido colocado para poder dar una revisión.

All about stickers.

I don't know why but I really love food related stuff, and when you add the 'kawaii' adjective before it it becomes even more desirable. So I bought some really cute stickers the other day that came all the way directly from Japan and currently am feeling so spaced out for them. Can't stop looking at them. XD
I also bought a small memo pad and a mini note. But right now I fell like just sharing one part with you all.

I don't know what to do with them though... XP