Tsukuba University is renowned for its science and the size of its campus. Apparently it is number one in Japan for science and number 2 for campus size.
What I found out yesterday was that it is up there in the culinary rankings as well for pork ramen. A couple of slabs of pork, some bamboo […]
Check this out for easy.
Stir fry minced beef with some grated ginger and a splash of sake. Drop in cubed firm tofu, mushrooms, green vegetables and whatever else you have and serve it up on rice. A five minute dinner that tastes like it took all day.
Everything that glitters is not gold. I love pudding, parfait and ice cream. What could be better than a pudding-grand parfait-ice cream? Almost anything as far as I am concerned. Next time I will look instead for a chocolate-beef-ice cream or the Kimchi-prawn- ice cream. Maybe they would taste better.
Tonight my wife cooked for us (always a welcome occurrence). She cooked brown rice and served green veges, mushrooms and sesame chicken with a sesame dipping sauce. Why do I never think of good ideas like that?
Today is the last day of Golden Week here in Japan. It is made up of a string of public holidays (this week broken up by some work days for some malicious reason). Yesterday was Boys day so I thought I would share one last bit of boy’s day for this year. This morning we opened some […]
On Boy’s Day in Japan, there are plenty of different sweets to try. As far as I can work out this is not specifically for boys day except that to celebrate they stamp a little carp design on the outside. Not surprisingly it is filled with red bean paste and is all about growing up […]
The 5th May in Japan is a holiday to celebrate Boy’s Festival. It is all about healthy growing boys and there are a lot of symbols ranging from beautiful flowing carp streamers (koinobori) to samurai replicas. Of course being Japan, there is traditional food as well. My favourite Boy’s day food is Kashiwamochi.
It is simply […]
Pino have just released a new ice cream in a rare cheese flavour. I am not sure if it is rare cheese because there aren’t many around or because it contains mascarpone. Can anyone help me. In Australia I never heard of rare cheesecakes or rare cheese. I only ever new of cheese by its […]
Tonight my wife and I took on the biggest apple that I have ever seen. In the real world it looked even bigger than the photo. It was a genuine family sized apple and was probably destined to be a wonderful gift rather than simply being snapped up by hungry Australians to eat at home.
Japanese […]
Udon are one of my favourite noodles (up there with soba and somen). This recipe was more like a “empty the cupboard improvisation but it turned out quite good.
First I boiled a pot of water and mixed in the end of a packet of consomme stock cubes. This was only about half strength so I […]
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