Taiyaki

The verdict? YUM!!! It was sooo surprisingly good. Basically, 2 waffles shaped like a fishy, with red bean paste inside. I'm only upset that I only brought one for breakfast!! X_x

Trials

Today's bento! Panko chicken, with Bulldog sauce on the side, and ham and cheese rollups, and 3 color dango/mochi. For dessert: the other chocolate cornet from the Japonaise Bakery. I definately needed more sugar in the dango, but I ran out last night when I was making them! Agh!

Porter Square, Cambridge MA

Trip to the Porter Exchange!! I was in the area, otherwise it's a trip out there, at least 45 minutes on the train in.
We started off by going to Kotobukiya, the Japanese market, but I'll get to that in a bit.

After the market, we went to the Japonaise Bakery! Yum!!



I got a chocolate cornet for then, and another for lunch today, and for breakfast today I got a custard-filled bun! They were sooo good! I also got a cold Jasmine tea.

At the store, they have snacks and stuff up front, and some instant ramen and such. Along one side there's some fridge stuff, and along the back is the frozen, the fish market, and the fridge section where I know they make onigiri, but every time I've been there...THEY'RE SOLD OUT! Every. Single. Time. Agh! One day!! *shakes fist* Going around the corner, there are cooking ingredients. Plus, more snacks! Past that, there's a Japanese movie rental in the back.



Here's what I got! Up top, is mochiko, or sweet rice flour! The two buns are maple flavored buns. I got a small Bull-dog sauce! Plus, the hard to find okonomi sauce, for okonamiyaki! Below that is bonito flakes and seaweed, red beans, and some more rice because I was out.



I also found some taiyaki hanging out in the freezer section! These are red bean filled, fish shaped cakes.

I got home, and was chilly still, so I made some soup to warm me up. Made up some udon and made some miso, mixed it, and yum! I didn't have any regular seaweed, so I tried breaking up nori as substitute. It was still good, but you could definitely tell that there was a bit too much salt because of that.

*yawn*

So tired... but! Last night, we were going into Boston, and I knew that we were going to be in for a while. So I made Kelley and I bento!



They were both the same, just different bento boxes. I made sandwich roll ups, mine was ham and cheese, and Kelley's was bologna and cheese. I put in sliced cucumbers around it, and then we had Crazy Bugs organic mac and cheese. Yum! Kelley liked it! :)

Ghetto Bento

There's nothing quick to put together in the house!!

So, I made stuff up XD



New correct-ish portion bento. Kinda.... ugly. *shrug* But it works! 3 jellys, one regular, 2 yogurt jellys, and 2 koolaid. The shotglass is sauce for what's inside, I had nothing else. :(



Inside! Front is provolone wrapped salad. I really had not much lol. Next, sliced pickled green tomatoes. My mom made them over the summer, they've been pickling since abouttt... June? July? Possibly August/Sept., I can't remember. Last is cold soba. The sauce is to dip the soba in. I know it's a summer food, but It was all I had!! TT_TT

Party!

Last night Kelley and I had an impromptu inaugural party! Happy Obama Day, the sequel! (The 1st was when he won the election.) So I decided to play bartender and cook. (No pics, sorry, was too busy!) Picked up some stuff at the supermarket, and got to it!

First, I made mini pizzas. I had bought some dough premade, so i took little balls and spread them out on a pizza pan, and added sauce and cheese. Popped them in for 8 mins, and voila! Took a max of 30 mins, most of it prep.

Next, I made 3 tamagoyaki rolls. Cut them up into slices and stuck toothpicks into them. They were gone within an hour or two. I had a request to make more!! :) (By the way: my recipe is- 3 eggs, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 tablespoon veggie oil, and a dash of sea mineral salt. I put half in the pan, and add a broken up slice of cheese. Let it cook thoroughly. Push to the side of the tamagoyaki pan, and add the rest of the egg in a sheet style. I will add pictures later! Let it cook most of the way evenly, pushing the egg around and such, until there's only a liiiiiittle left on top that's not cooked. Roll the egg into the roll shape, and let cook on either side for a little bit, to make sure it gets heated. Slice and enjoy after cooling!)

A little later, I whipped out my sushi mat, and made crab meat, cucumber, and carrot sushi. Those were gone in 10 minutes.

After that, I made homemade chicken, lettuce, carrot dumplings. They had to cool down, but it was still very quick for them to leave the plate, maybe 15 mins.

After that! I was done haha!! I went to bed!! :D

I also was bartender for the night haha. It was clear my drinks were the best, as they were all finished, and I was walking around picking up half finished drinks that had been made too strong by my friends.
Trick: Juice tastes better than cheap vodka. XD Mixing well is a drinksaver, as well.

Umeboshi onigiri

My onigiri! Finally got the hang of it. :) Today's are filled with pickled plum, umeboshi. What I did was cut open an umeboshi, took out the seed, then spread it out in between clumps of rice, then formed it in the mold. (Does that make sense?? Rice, umeboshi, rice. I confused myself x_x) Actually, cuz they're so small, I did 1 1/2 umeboshi to each onigiri.



And the morning snack was 2 mini Jellys, that have bits of lychee in them. I think. I'm not entirely positive about that.



I had made a bento for today, but my dad came in and said "You wanna go to lunch with us? Good, let's go." Lol, no choice for me! x_x;;;