Hawaiian Maguro Tataki Burger

When a friend of mine offered a burger party, I thought it would be just a simple work of piling up bread, lettuce, tomato, cheese, and a-slice-of-dedicated-burger-meat. That's why I was a bit surprised when I saw them (him and another friend) picking up a box of minced raw meat at the supermarket.

"Eh? So we are going to make our burger meat by ourselves?"
(I asked to myself :p) Oh no :D

Quote from friend

When I said that life in my city was full of farewells, a friend of mine gave a very nice response..
"No need to say good bye; just "see you later" because life is full of surprises and we don't know when we could meet again"

Enjoy a picture of our happy dinner.

Its really nice to meet you all. See you "later" :)

List of places I want to go

1. JAXA, Tsukuba
2. Kobe (Ruminarie Festival)
3. Mie Prefecture through Iragomisaki (visiting a young handsome little boy)
4. Universal Studio Japan, Osaka
5. Hokkaido
6. Fukuoka and Nagasaki
7. Korea! :D (dreaming to visit my lovely friend)

Tomato sauce

Several weeks ago, I made pizza for a friend who helped me moving in to my new room. Okay, actually it was not real pizza. I put tomato sauce on a slice of bread, gave some grated Parmesan cheese, and toasted it for a while.

It was my first time (making this sauce by myself), so that when I saw that my friend really liked it, I was so happy.

.. ups..
(no picture, because I forgot to take it)

Delicious KFC

On the first day in my apartment, I hadn't install gas to turn on the stove. Therefore, me and my friend decided to cook my chicken meat in Kaikan (my campus dormitory). We made this fried chicken with very limited ingredients (only garlic, garlic powder, and salt), but amazingly it turned out to be super delicious fried chicken.

That day I found out that my friend was really talented.. He was really good, not only in photography, but also in cooking. We named the dish as KFC, Kaikan Fried Chicken :)

Chicken dumpling です!

I had an idea to make siomay ayam (chicken dumpling) after conversation with my cousin. Because I was such a newbie, I ran to my neighbor to ask for her assistance.

I would like to say that this siomay ayam was our joint venture. But actually, I just came to my neighbor with an idea, an egg, a knife, a cutting board, and a block of "bumbu pecel" (Indonesian peanut sauce). The rest (of the ingredients and tools) were from my neighbor!
(Even the chicken meat was from her. Ehehehe, I guess I have a really nice neighbor^^)

We chose chicken instead of fish because we thought it would be simpler (than if we used fish -- we had to separate the fish from its bone).

Anyway..
This is our siomay. Believe me. It taste really really goood.

おつかれさまです, neighbor! :) ありがとう.
Recipe was taken from here.

Tuna-Mayo Bread

Hola! Hows life?
Me? Fine, thank you :)
So, last weekend, we had a guest from another city. But that time I was exhausted and was not in the mood to make any food. This food was made just about 2 hours before we went to hike Fuji-san.

Actually I wanted to make something sweet (such as pudding), but it seemed that my neighbor started to get bored with my sweet food :(