Naranja Colada

Weh.. I haven't posted anything in quite a time. 

(Kaigiman and I cooked and ate a lot recently. I was overwhelmed. I took some pictures in the beginning, but then I decided to give up, hehe.. I just didn't have much time to post and write.)

Anyway, now here I am :)

Have you ever heard Pina Colada? Its kind of pineapple (pina) juice with coconut milk. I tried it for the first time in Honolulu. And it tasted soo damn good (and refreshing). Oh, don't forget to say 'virgin' (i.e., virgin pina colada), or else they will put some rum (alcohol) inside your drink.

Back in Toyohashi, I was craved for Pina Colada. I couldn't find pineapple that easily that time, so I decided to modify a bit: using orange instead of pineapple.

Do you also want to try? I dont remember which recipe did I use, well.. try to google 'orange colada' if you want :)
Ps: actually, they have another name for it: Naranja Colada.

Homemade Mango Lassi

I used to bike 3 kilometers to my favorite restaurant, only for a glass of mango lassi. I have to tell you that this restaurant has the yummiest mango lassi in the town (though there are only two three Indian restaurant I've tried here). I always wanted to make a homemade version of mango lassi, but getting mango in Japan is a bit difficult (and expensive!). Usually I have to spend 400 yen (40,000 rupiahs!) only for ONE mango.

And you know what?
Several days ago, we found cheap mango in the market! Woo.. This must be a sign from the universe that we have to try making mango lassi by ourself.
Too bad I was lazy to get my blender out of the box, so I merely used a spoon (instead of blender) to soften mango. I also decided not to add any sugar (as I felt that the mango itself was already sweet).

Fast recipe:
LassiMix:
1 cup of milk + 1.5 cup of yoghurt
ToppingSoften:
1/4 part of mango

My friend said that I could get foamy lassi if I blend yoghurt and milk using blender.
Noted. Later we'll try a blended version of lassi ;)

Or even better: blended orange lassi. Humm.. sounds good.

Takoyaki

I think Kaigiman loves "yaki" very much. You name it: okonomiyaki, monjayaki, takoyaki.. (what else?). At least those were what we ate on our first date (so that we called our first date as "yaki-day" :p).

Last weekend, we had our first cooking session and we made takoyaki. It was pretty easy (and fun), actually:
1. For the batter, you just need flour, 3 eggs, chopped cabbage, and a cup of water.
2. For the filling, prepare some slices of tako (octopus), slices of cheese, and tenkasu
3. For the topping, this might sounds like okonomiyaki recipe: drizzle every takoyaki with mayonaise and takoyaki sauce. And don't forget to sprinkle with katsuoboshi and aonori.

Oishikatta ;)

ps: unfortunately, you need to prepare takoyaki pan for this recipe

Chocolate Cup of Happiness

Do you crave chocolate?
Several months ago, I was pretty sad, so that somehow I googled the word "chocolate" and "sadness" (a bit pathetic, huh..). Well.. I didn't really know what I was looking for. But fortunately I found this sweet site and its great recipe: chocolate mug of sadness.

You only need to mix the ingredients in about 5 minutes, spend less than 5 minutes to "bake" it in microwave, and tadaaa.. Please welcome.. a perfect warm, moist, chocolaty companion for your sadness.

Anyway, I'm happy at the moment. So I guess, I'll modify its name a bit to fit my mood ;)
Have a nice monday, people.

Okonomiyaki

Hey, its already November :)
I've been pretty busy these recent months. I had some stressful days, but also a lot of great days. As Mr. Chef said, "The good experiences are the ones that count" ;)

Talking about Mr. Chef,, I stole some ideas for cooking from him. Somehow he's more japanese than me (even though none of us are japanese :p),, well.. at least he knows more japanese dishes than me.

I invited my friends to cook and enjoy okonomiyaki with me. Actually it was more like a farewell party (so sad). But let's not talk about farewell..

It was really nice that finally I could eat okonomiyaki with meat \m/
And I have to tell you that it tasted REALLY good (you have to try it!).

Curious enough? Click here for recipe
(oh, okay.. we didn't do the one in the link, but i just cant find where's our recipe :p )

Roasted Corn

My friend and I found unhusked corns in the vegetable shop and suddenly had an idea to roast the corns. I still don't know how I could convince him that I had that experience to roast a corn, because somehow he looked like he really trusted me in this case. (usually, it was me that really trusted whatever he said)

It turned out that we almost screwed it up and this cooking session (yes, lets count it as cooking :p) became very lively (and absurd). But just when you can smell that sweet roasted corn aroma,, you know that you're doing it good. It was worth crazying.

(whats this worth crazying)

Have a nice Sunday :)

Questions about the moon

After reading about how to determine the beginning of Islamic month (lunar calendar) by sky observation, I realized that I have A LOT of questions regarding the moon.. It took me hours to jump from one page to another, trying to figure out the answers of these questions. Then I think that maybe I should stop now. I have life to live (lol :p).

Here I put a list of my questions (also I tried to answer!), so maybe one day I have enough time to explore more about it..

1. Does the "dark side of the moon" mean that this side is always turned away from the sun? Or does it only mean that this side is always turned away from the earth?