i-cook-saturday

a phonecall from mum yesterday saying that she brought groceries and "tomorrow you are cooking for me". whoaa...

so after doing some additional grocery shopping for the meat & greens, i whipped up a lunch of cold soba noodles topped with minced meat along with a side of tofu salad. tres healthy. so now apparently, every saturday is going to be a i-cook-saturday.

some things i would like to try...
1) croquette
2) donburi

somehow recipes for Japanese food are easier to find.

inari sushi

saturday's our cook-in session so i thought i should try out something new so..... here's my.....

inari sushi !!
*sushi in an aburaage (beanbag)

inari sushi can be commonly at all sushi places including take-away counters. i really like the combination of rice and the sweetness of the sauce from the marinated aburaage.

pre-prepared bean bags apparently can be found but well, this isn't Japan exactly so they aren't so easily found. so i made my bean bags from sweet bean bag myself from normal fried tofu squares (i.e.: which is we Singaporeans know as tau pok) by marinating it with soy sauce & sugar. How to DIY.

sounds easy but not when you have to worry about whether it will be salty enough, sweet enough, soft enough. fortunately for me, my mum was there to help taste.

After squeezing dry the bags, i stuff it with sushi rice and scrambled eggs. of course, i would be biased so from a more objective point of view, my mum said it was nice too :D

p/s: but now i am not sure if i want to make them on Saturday again cos its alot of work!

Japanese cooking

learning to cook has always been part of the "to-do" in the holiday list. was into sushi making eons ago, my pralines failed terribly, so till date I am still best at maggi mee. if you want it to sound better, you can say you know how to cook ramen - which is essentially SHIN ramen.

in our last movie date, drey gie & i suggested a japanese potluck! I wanna try my hands at this ;D ...

Onigiri! (Japanese rice balls!) sushi is just too difficult. kawaii-deshio?

found a online help to easy onigiri making . and was superly inspired by this.

we can always do other easy ones like soba, somen. & the japanese egg-wrapped fried noodles.

and you know what is the best part of it all? DAISO. japanese cooking is not expensive anymore!

drey & maggie: when when when?