玄米 Brown Rice

This post includes all recipe we use for organic brown rice.

玄米 Brown rice is not nice to have if get cooked as raw brown rice, usually we wash briefly with water, and pan fry with lowest fire for around 4 hours  (for three cups) in a flat pan, until it turns brown brown color. Leave a little bit of water at the beginning so the pan does not dry out, and stir all the time before water dries up. Afterwards, just stir/shake occasionally to make sure all sides get cooked. If use for tea, we can cook it until it turn quite black brown, same on lowest fire.

玄米茶 Brown rice tea for one/two
In a small ceramic pot, add water, brown rice, half 梅干 (Japanese Red Sour Plum), 1/2 teaspoon of salt and 2-3 small pieces of 昆布 seaweed. Cook for around 30mins to serve hot or cold. But the amount really depends on people.

玄米ご飯 for one
Mill 70g brown rice for 10 second, so it breaks to small pieces but not fine powder, add to a small ceramic pot and 2 cups of water (more if you like porridge feel, less if you like rice feel), a bit of salt. Boil and stop the fire for one minute to rest, then cook on lowest fire for around 1 hour.

味噌玄米 for one
Same as 玄米ご飯, just add salt and one spoon of miso and preferred vegetable (大根、かぶ、人参、葉、など) at the beginning.

だしと味噌汁 Dashi and miso soup

2013.08.27

1.大友煮干 (niboshi) *20 Remove head and inside black (Darling said the head is eatable though)
2. 1 Litre of water
3. Leave for overnight for miso soup the next day.
4. Add 昆布 (seaweed) and shouldn’t make it to boil.

2013.08.26

1.大友煮干 (niboshi) *20 Remove head and inside black (Darling said the head is eatable though)
2. 1 Litre of water
3. Leave for overnight for miso soup the next day.
4. Filter the 煮干, add small piece of 昆布 (seaweed), boil and add one spoon of miso, lots of ねぎ (spring onion) at the end.
*** Too much ねぎ flavor, not enough fish flavor and didn’t put salt at the beginning, was not as nice as before.

Spring Street Grocer

This is a few notes about our shopping history in Spring Street Grocer.

2013.10.29
Pasta in plastic bag, $2.9

2013.09.28
Snapper $5.07

2013.09.30
Barramundi $45/kg $5.85

2013.10.08
Cold pressed juice (blood orange) 500ml big bottle $8.5
*Fresh juice, not bitter nor sour at all

2013.10.09
Snapper $38.4/kg * 0.13kg = $4.99

2013.10.13
Whole baby snapper $20/kg * 0.359kg = $7

2013.10.14
Porthouse Steak $32/kg * 0.2kg = $6.4

2013.10.16
Smoked trout $10
Salad mix $3
Tiramisu $6.95 (cheese cake better)

2013.10.20
Elgaar Farm Organic Double Cream 250ml $6.5
Fresh cream 250ml $4.95
Organic Egg *6 $5
Meredith Sheep Yoghurt 500g $4.5

2013.11.18
Snapper Fillet $53.5/kg * 0.12kg = $6.42
NZ King Salmon Fillet $39/kg * 0.138kg = $5.38

2013.11.25
Spec Bacon $26/kg = $3.43
Chipotile Chicken $10.45 (nice, used as pasta sauce)

2013.12.02
Antico Molino Caputo ’00’ Flour $2.75/350g (Italy’s best flour perfect for pasta and pizza)

 

Snapper

2013.09.28
Got snapper from Spring Street Grocery
1. Wash a bit, wrap with salt and rub a bit
2. Wrap with 昆布 (seaweed), then gladwrap and leave in fridge until cook
3. Cook back to crispy and turn around, get cooked very soon.
4. Dressing with 大根おろし (mashed radish) Don’t make 大根 too dry

寒天 Kanten

寒天 (kanten) is used to make Japanese jelly.

Basic recipe:
寒天 2g : Liquid 200 – 300ml : Sugar (depends)

*200ml will make it quite hard, and with fully water will be quite smelly of 寒天, so add quite a bit of sugar
*300ml make it better then hard, I prefer 300ml hardness.
* used peach syrup:water – 80ml:120ml, not too bad

寒天かぼちゃ
350g mashed pumpkin
50g sugar
300ml water
4g 寒天
Steam pumpkin, add sugar and mashed well. Boil 寒天 with water and take white stuff out after boil, around 2mins until it’s clear. Mix together with pumpkin, leave it cool before put into fridge.

Wisdom teeth

I went to dentist for general check in April and found my two bottom wisdom teeth were both affected and since they are not growing straight and pushing to the front tooth. Since we were away, the operation was delayed until July. We decided to pull out one of the teeth since the tooth in front was quite in danger. So I’m going to record my first experience and recovery process.

2014.07.03 1430-1500
消毒/sterilise、麻酔/anaesthesia、麻酔もうちょっと、cut quarter out, take another half out, screw the rest inside, left a big big hole. Then scratch the tooth in front, hurt a bit, and put more 麻酔 and scratch, put little “gel” on it seal. 麻酔 stayed until I fell asleep. Fujita sensei helped me to relax my body a lot, so the lympha and neck doesn’t swollen too much. Applied copaiba oil for many times. Had bread, mochi, a bit of rice for medicine, had one medicine before sleep. Couldn’t brush teeth nor throw out any thing, so the blood and other stuff doesn’t come out continuously, but can eat and drink.

2014.07.04
Wake up with no pain, just a bit weird in mouth, but darling got lots of body pain, he said he took over all my pain so I feel not painful. Brushed teeth lightly, had plenty of water, eat a bit for medicine, had another medicine in the morning as well as at night. Had sushi for lunch, ate carefully, but thought I left two pieces of rice in the hole while I looked at my hole through mirror. And I feel the outside flesh of the hole went a bit red and swollen, maybe eat too much? But doctor just sterilised the hole and didn’t say anything, and it wasn’t rice but the healing process, that grows to stop the blood and heal the hole, don’t need to do anything with it, just wash mouth with water if anything went in, and eat and drink and brush teeth as normal. the hole turned to half, still feel weird since I lost my teeth and only can use right side to eat. Can’t believe how people survive with four wisdom teeth pulled out at the same time. Doctor said the hole will recover in around one month time, but some people said not possible, we will see.

2014.07.05
Brushed teeth in the morning, hole got smaller, but haven’t had medicine or copaiba oil since I was too busy. But no more medicine, even I found I got charged a bit for the medicine which I only had three tablets, should try to remember not to have it next time.

Had a bit temperature of 37.11 at night, not sure whether it’s from the tooth or since my pyjama is thicker than usual.

2014.07.06
Tooth hole turns half already, white stuff grows, new flesh grows too. Just feel a little bit weird, and little bit headache at night.

2014.07.07
Only applied copaiba oil at night, recovering quite well, small hole (1/3) left.

2014.07.08
I was told to stop copaiba oil for three days, starting from tomorrow, use Sauge de Dragon instead. Didn’t sleep properly these two days, felt the whole was a bit swollen after midnight.

2014.07.10
Had Sauge de Dragon night before on the whole and tooth in front of it (by mistake), waked up early midnight and hurting a bit, get better in the morning.

2014.07.15
The hole remains small, but I don’t feel it is there swollen anymore. It doesn’t affect eating too, just I really don’t feel like use that side before it fully recover.

2014.07.19
Without notice, my wisdom tooth hole has turned very small. And we have just made another appointment next week for pulling off another wisdom tooth on the right side =(

2014.07.31
Today’s appointment, same pullout dentist 上原先生, different nurse though. But the right wisdom tooth was a bit down and inside, but not affected. My dentist put some jelly in the right corner of my mouth so it doesn’t hurt when they do the injection. And I could feel my whole body, should and head specially were tight up :(. My doctor did similar things but he had to cut the gum to take my tooth out, of course I wouldn’t know until he sew my mouth 🙁 three stitches in my mouth now. It didn’t bleed as before since it was sewed, but hard to see how it goes inside. Right shoulder hurt on the way back home. Went to 藤田先生 afterwards, and he fixed my shoulder pain, not head this time since it didn’t hurt as last time.
Bad thing is every time I try to open my mouth to clean the blood, it stretches the cut and stitches that could cause more bleeding and it hurt a bit. So I tried not to open my mouth much. Only had a little bite of fish, and soup, since it is not comfortable to open, bite much neither chew well. Had ice cream before medicine. One pink tablet, should be antibiotics, before sleep. Applied copaiba oil around before sleep.

2014.08.01
Couldn’t sleep in the morning, not sure whether it’s because of tooth or body not comfortable. Face and gum was swollen and not comfortable. Tooth is feeling weird since it’s stretching all the time. Had mashed pumpkin, so I didn’t need my teeth much. Slept in afternoon for a bit, went to dentist at 7pm for recheck and disinfection. Face was a bit swollen maybe since I didn’t take medicine at lunch time? It should be okay since dentist didn’t say anything except keep taking medicine 🙂 had two tablets after meals. Had copaiba oil for a few times.

2014.08.02
Still couldn’t sleep well at night. Face might look normal but gum still a bit swollen and right had side hurt a bit. Wakes up early, washed car and out for whole day until 4pm, only had two small bread and no medicine neither copaiba oil. Had one each at night and slept in early from 1830 to 0500 next day.

2014.08.03
Wake up okay, stitches still feel weird, but can eat better. Gum is still swollen. Didn’t take medicine until night again.

2014.08.06
End up only had 5 medicine in total, but had copaiba oil every night recently. Last night the sewing part get a bit soaked, something like a cut soak in water for too long and skin turns white color. Going to dentist to take stitches out, see how it goes.

2014.08.07
Went to dentist to take stitches out, hurt a bit when he cut them off and bleed a bit. The tooth in front of wisdom tooth hurt when he cleaned it, but he said it was okay, it was because the cut was not fully recovered, and the meat where was joint by stitches was still stuck there. Copaiba oil nearly every night.

2014.08.09
Meat slowly stretch back, feel lot better than before when the stitches was in. Can see the hole now, not too big. No copaiba oil last night only. But will continue every night for a while.

2014.08.14
Two weeks since my second wisdom tooth got pulled out. On 12th, didn’t sleep well the night before and worked whole day, ear started to hurt while cleaning the car, gum is very sensitive, hurt from gum to ear when having cold water, right side of tongue was sensitive too while brushing with toothbrush. Next day found tongue right side have bubbles inside, hard to see with eyes though. Stopped copaiba oil for two days now.

New York style Cheesecake

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With the leftover cream cheese and sour cream, I made a half of New York style Cheesecake in baking bowls.
180g Full Fat Cream Cheese
90g Full Fat Sour Cream
30g Sugar
1 Egg White
1 Tablespoon of Lemon Juice
1 Tablespoon of Corn Starch
*Bake @130 for 1.5hr with cover (since it is small oven, will get burnt easily), keep water to the tray all the time.

Leave cream cheese to room temperature, add sugar and mix until creamy. Add smooth sour cream, mix well, then egg white, lemon juice and sifted corn starch. Go through fine sift for three times or more. Then bake.

It turns like soufflé while baking because of the water, and shrinks when it is cooled down. But Darling think it is a bit too raw and eggy. Might need to cook longer and higher temperature in the same bowl so it doesn’t get burnt on bottom.

かごの屋 kagonoya

Lovely エシャさんinvites us for dinner at かごの屋today. Honey ちゃん first time have this kind of obento set in family restaurant. It’s enough for girls, not for boys. Have different kinds of Japanese dishes, colourful, traditional? Rice with miso soup, 茶碗蒸し, steamed chicken with fish cake and bamboo, some fried croquet and salad.

First time this long, I finally had one parfait =D and its green tea flavoured. The only thing that is disappointing is, half of the glass is glass, so it seems big enough for the price, but there is nothing there =(

Macha Parfait

Indian Diary

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Haven’t visit Malvika’s home for few months, while we were missing their indian food all the time =P. This time, we were treated with a new dish – Bhel Puri, an Indian snack. They bought the packed one, including puffy rice, sauce and topping, just need to cut red onion to small pieces, add puffy rice, mix sauce powder and water, add to rice and onion, finish and distribute to each bowl, then add topping. It’s spicy but acceptable, nice and hot, filling as well <3.
Then we had Saurabh’s favorite butter chicken, which was not sweet as usual shops, it was spicy. And it was the only butter chicken that Malvika like <3.
Dessert? Whipped cream with running chocolate, layer with biscuit. Refrigerate for 5 hours, serve cold. It became my dessert for the following three days. Thanks~