みつの日記: 3月 2014

2014年3月31日月曜日

Instant Miso Ramen Noodles (Recipe)

Today let me tell you how to cook an instant Miso ramen. Cabbage and bean sprout are good combination with miso sauce.

INGREDIENTS (serves 1)

・Instant noodles (miso taste)

・1/4 Cabbage

・Bean sprout

METHOD

1. Cut cabbage and fry with Moyashi.

2. Move vegetables to a plate.

3. Boil 500 ml water

4. Boil noodles for 4 minutes.

5. Add sauce into a bowl.

6. Add boiled water except noodles to the bowl and mix it (melt).

7. Add noodles and vegetables to the bowl.

Shoyu taste

Miso taste

2014年3月30日日曜日

A Beautiful Sakura Day in Tokyo

This weekends I saw cherry blossoms called "Sakura" in my town. I know it will rain next day and the flowers may fall. So I took photos and video riding bike in town. When I was teen, Sakura was boring but now.. it's "wow!"

Keio hospital and university

JR Ichigaya station

A great sakura and train (video)

JR Iidabashi station

Riding (video)

Fishing

Hanami party

I found a duck (video)

2014年3月29日土曜日

Modern Soba Noodles (Recipe)

On weekend afternoon I cooked Japanese Soba noodles for my son. I added a modern arrange because this bowl is Iittara , Hahaha... You can do this in 5 minutes because this is an instant one. Sorry if you feel bad looking at a raw egg... ( but Japanese one is so fresh.)

Soba noodles recipe

INGREDIENTS (serves 1)

Instant soba noodles with sauce

Mushroom (optional)
Nori (optional)
Egg (optional)

METHOD

1. Fry mushroom.

2. Boil 500 ml water.

3. Add noodles into water and boil them for 3 minutes.

4. Add mushroom and boil 30 seconds.

5. Add sauce into a bowl.

5. Serve noodles in a bowl.

6. Add a raw egg and Nori.

As a genius Japanese Momofuku Ando invented the first instant noodles and cup noodles (when he was at age 61!) , the instant noodles in Japan are cheap and delicious. Try them too!

2014年3月27日木曜日

Kenchin Jiru Recipe (Traditional Japanese Soup)

Last year I joined Kawagoe marathon. After the race hot soups called kenchin jiru (けんちん汁) in Japan were distributed for runners. I stood in the line with a ticket for one soup. but many runners got the soup and it was distributed completely before I get it. I was sad... So I cooked the soup at home. Let me introduce the recipe.

Kenchin jiru is a traditional vegetable soup in Japan. Basically the sauce is a soy sauce but I think Miso can be used too. This soup is traditional light taste and a little boring for youth comparing with a strong Ramen. (maybe it's same for foreign travelers...) But this is a mother's soup and reminds me a childhood :)

Kenchin Jiru recipe

INGREDIENTS (serves 2)

1/2 carrot
1/3 Daikon (Japanese radish)
1/2 sweet potato
1/4 burdock
mushroom
1/2 leek
Dashi-no-moto (soup broth mix)
soy sauce
miso

METHOD

1.Cut all vegetables and heat them with an oil.

2.add water and boil them. (lower the heat when it's boiled)

3.add Dashi-no-moto into water.

4.add leek into water.

5.add soy sauce and salt and miso. adjust the taste. See, it looks good?

If you do it right, this is delicious and healthy soup. You can makes your family and friends happy :)

2014年3月24日月曜日

Amazing Moscow Subway

In 2013 I stayed at Moscow and Voronezh in Russia as a business trip for one week. Do you know Veronezh city? I've never seen Japanese person who knows it... Anyway I love subway ( and I love Moscow) and I took many photos. It's gorgeous!.

I remember that the first station I use in Moscow is Prospekt Mira which was the closest station from my hotel. Can you understand how challenging it is to find the station in town since I can't read Cyrillic character.I can't even read McDonalds there. Здравствуй!

Location: Prospekt Mira (Google map)