Cola

Do you know what this drink is?




of course everyone knows, it's coca cola.
In America, one person drink 3,5l in a week on average.
cola is loved by lots of people.

BTW, Do you know how coca cola invented?

coca cola was invented by John Penberton, who maneged chemist.
He tried to create new medicine.
He was interested in coca because it is said it is good for morphine.

At that time, medicinal drinks which is melted coca was popular, so he imitated the style of medicine and invented 'French wine and Coca'. It was a big hit.

However, in 19th century, alcohol was banned, so they mix the medicine coca with water.
but one day, one owner of bar mix coca with soda by mistake and offered to costomer.

It was great taste and this is present style of cola.
I was surprised the fact becase my mother told me coca cola is bad for your health.

but actually, coca cola is medicine at first. how interesting it is.

I read the story when I was an elementary school. I rarely drink coca cola because my mother told me not to drink coca cola, but the story is very interesting for me. To know origin of food is interesting, isn't it?:-)

If you know origin of food, plz tell me.


Amy

biscuit and cookie

Have u ever made cookies? Recently, I often make cookies at home because I can control the quantity of sugar and I can save quantity of eating. formed cookies look very cute and it is good for present. How about biscuit?

Do you know the difference between biscuit and cookie?

Actually, it depends on where in the world you live, but in US, cookie is a small, flat baked pastry and biscuit is a kind of crisp dry bread.

Biscuit derives from the Latin, bis coctus. It means 'twice baked'. biscuit used to be the part of Ancient Roman armies' raitons.

In English speaking countries, biscuit was reassigned to denate a small, soft quick leavened bread product served piping hot.

The word 'cookie' is come from Dutch, 'kokje'. Later, the word cookie is from England. now cookie is added a lot of sugar and butter, but that style of cookie was not common until 18th century.

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BTW,

I bought cookie cutter yesterday.

spoon and folk:-) it is cute, isn't it?

I found some cute cookie cutter on web site.

world cookie cutter.

and bag cookie cutter.

If you buy them, you can travel everywhere in cookie world.lol

What is your favorite flavor of cookie? I like maple and nuts is the best.

Amy

DO NOT EAT.

Hi guys:-) today, I want u to introduce food you cannot eat. Look at the pic.
It looks delicious, but actually, these are candles.




green soybeans and beer


Takoyaki


cakes

sushi

Recently, the sales of candles have been increasing because we had a very strong earthquake in Kanto area. Most of houses had power outage and candles were useful. In summer, we use air conditioner and consume a lot of electricity. It causes lack of electricity, so government may implement the planned power outage in summer.

Candles are helpful when power outage happen. A lot of people think they want to spend the time with aroma candles or unique candles. Aroma candles make us feel relaxed and flame of candles make us feel relaxed as well. according to research, to sit one place for a long time make people irritated or feel stress, but if there is a candle and see the flame, that kind of feeling is disappeared. And candles emit negative ion. Negative ion is good for our health, and also it would helpful if you want to concentrate on your work.

In conclusion, candles help us to be relax and health.

Why don't you buy your favorite candles and enjoy candle life this summer?

I like aroma candles, but I would recommend unique one as I introduced at first. I have some cake shape of candles. it will use not only candles but also as an interior. Fragrance are sweet like real cakes and it makes me happy.

Here is the info how to make sweets candles.

http://ameblo.jp/ichigo0822/entry-10454731968.html

http://handmade-candle.net/sweets-03.html

http://atelier.woman.excite.co.jp/creation/10873.html

If you are interested in, plz try it and show me:-)

Amy

recipe for vegetarian and vegan

Hi, today is a very hot day!!!!! I will have ice cream today!!!!! I should!!! lol

BTW, we learned about vegetarianism and we did 24 hours vegetarian challenge.
I became vegan and it was very hard for me. I could not eat any animal products, but I wanted to eat meat. So I searched food for vegan on the internet and I found good recipe.



Can u guess what it is?

It is fried chicke......no, fried tofu. but taste and texture is like chicken nugget.

You chould use cotton tofu, silken tofu is too soft to make it.
At first, you have to freese tofu. and after thaw, plz juice tofu well. by juicing well, the texture become like chicken.

then, you season tofu same as fried chicken and fried.

↓this is my recipe of seasoning

soy sauce: two teaspoon
sake:two tea spoon
ginger: 1/2 of teasopoon
garlic: 1/2 of teaspoon
(sugar: one tea spoon)←if you like


it tastes similar to chicken nugget, but calories are half of fried chicken, and it is not oily,it is light, so even if you have a poor appetite because of the heat, you can eat.
in summer, i recommend to eat fried tofu with grated raddish.:-)

it will get hotter and hotter from now, so if you know good recipe for summer heat, plz tell me.


Amy

strange snacks and drinks in Japan

I found a bit shocking and interesting news in web site and I want u to introduce the news today.

In this article, Top 10 weirdest Japanese snacks and drinks for foreigners are introduced.

Writers said ,"Japan has become one of the most shocking nations on the planet.""The only thing left really is concentrating on the more adorable kind of Japanese zaniness that relates to their odd food choice."

10. Candy squid

9.Cheese drinks
8.Rose sweat gum


7.cream collon biscuits.
6.Curry lemonade



5.Scallops and Mayo flavored chips
4.Bizzare pepsi flavors



3.Roasted baby crabs



2.Eel soda

1.Meat flavored ice cream

So what do u think about these snacks and drinks?

Candy squid, and collon biscuits are quite common and familiar food and I think roasted crabs look delicious. But how about others? others are not familiar food not only for foreigners but also for Japanese.

Foreigners may misunderstand that these are common snacks and drinks in Japan, so they said Japanese choose odd food, but actually, it is not true.

Japanese buy them as a souvenir and enjoy just once or a few times.

so I do not want foreigners to misunderstand Japanese people have a strange palate.

Have u ever tried strange snacks or drinks?

I have had Genghis Khan caramel. The taste was terrible, but that kinds of snaks would help to make people laugh and good atomosphere.

Amy

Akira's sweets world;-)

today, I want u to introduce the guy.

Can u guess his job?

His name is Akira Yuyama and he was born in 1939, Sep 9th.

He made "popcorn", "cotton candy", cakes, and so on.

But his job is not patissier. he is not look like patissier or chef, isn't he?

His job is....

to compose music.

He is a very famous composer. He composed a lot of great music, for kids mainly.

His masterwork is piano sonata, Amefuri Kumanoko, Kodomono Sekai, and so on.

He is not a patissier, but he expressed a lot of sweets by music.

The music score is called 'Sweets World'(Okashi no sekai)

As I wrote before, this book is filled with a lot of music named kinds of sweets.

Popcorn, chocolate bar, cookies, candy, cream paff.....

all titles make my mouth water.lol

Every music is pop and cute!!!!

I'm surprised and impressed music express sweets.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Akira+Yuyama&aq=f

↑Plz listen some his music!!!!

BTW, today is Sesshy's birthday!

Happy birthday my friend!!:-)

Amy

let's eat veges and fruits in season!

Do you care to eat seasonal food in daily life?

Now, we can eat any fruits and veges whenever you want because they are grown in a vinyl house.

But we should eat seasonal fruits and veges more.

Compared with unseasonal food, seasonal food contain a lot of nutritian, cheaper, delicious, and less chemicals.

Spring has almost gone, so I focus on veges in summer.

Veges and fruits in summer have an effect of cool our body and contain lots of vitaminC.

●veges and fruits in June●

[veges]

onion, green bean, tomato, pumpkin, asparagus, cucumber,eggplant

[fruits]
mango, peach, grape fruit,apricot, plum,melon, water melon,orange

http://www.shokuwa.com/recipe/syu/syunsakanatop.html

here is the seasonal food calendar and some recipe.

plz check it and enejoy seosonal veges!!!!

Amy

Do u like black tea?

What is ur favorite drink?

Fruit juice? water? ... alcohol? lol

My favorite drink is...as u can see on title, black tea.

I have two cups of tea every day.

Almost all of people think tea originated in England, or some other Europian countries, but actually, China is origin of tea. Today, tea-producing countries are India, Sri lanka,Indonesia mainly.

Can u imagine how many flavors are drunk in the world?

Suprisingly, 4000~5000 kinds of tea are drinking.

flavor and taste is changed by season.

here is the golden rule of tea.

1.use tea pot.

2.take the quantity of tea leaf correctly.

3.use boiled water.

4.steam

Plz obey this rule,and enjoy tea!!!!

↓Here is more info about tea. how to make, how to choose tea, and so on.

http://www.sexyredheadednuns.org/Tea/HowToMakeTea.html

lastly, I introduce my favorite tea.

I often go to tea shop and sample some, and find favorite flavor.

I live in alone now, but I have more than 20 flavors of tea.

My mother would get angry if she saw my dish shelf...;-x

this is my favorite tea. brand is wedgwood and the brand is famous for tableware.

Flavor is 'wild strawberry'.

I love flavored tea, but usually,flovored tea has a strong smell, so it is not suitable to drink with sweets. Tis flavored tea also has aroma, but it is really nice with sweets.

Amy

My diet style

I went to Daikanyama with my friends last week.
I love Daikanyama because there are a lot of great cafeteria:-)


After we ate lunch, we bought lunch plate there.











↑this one is mine

and this blue one is my friend's.
very cute, isn't it?

The reason why we bought them is we heard eating meals with lunch plate is good for diet.

I love eating so I don't want to go on a hard style of diet.

The good point using lunch plate are that we can reduce the quantity of eating naturally and we can eat at least 4 kinds of meals.(it means we can intake a lot of kind of nourishment )

I have been to Australia for six months and I put on my weight there,(maybe 5kg.....OMG) so I thought I had to go on a diet.

I chose orange because I thought the dish looked delicious.

But my friend chose blue because the blue have a power to spoil appetite.

So when you buy dish, to think purpose is also important I think.

Why don't you start 'lunch plate diet' if you are interested in?

Amy

great party night

I had a girls' party last week. The members were my friends Yu and Akiko.

The place where we had a party was my apartment, so I had to make somthing to treat them. I had no idea of dishes, so I asked them if you have some request of dinner. Yu answered she wanted me to suprise her by dishes, and Akiko answered she wanted to eat Western food. So I decided to make paella. Paella is Spanish dishes and very colorful, so I thought they had to enjoy not only taste but also looking.

To make Paella sounds difficult, but my mother taught me how to make it easily.:-9

☆Ingredients☆
・2 cups of rice
・some vegetables(whatever you like)

・two teaspoonful of turmeric

and....

this one, this is a secret to make paella easily.

By using pasta sauce, you don't have to add any seasoning.

Just put everything in the rice cooker and make rice as usual.(Of course plz add water. Just pasta sauce is not enough to make rice)

This time, I made it by frying pan.

Predictably, my friends were so surprised and enjoyed to eat.

Yu brought wine made from cherry blossoms. it was so nice!!

I love girls' party !!!!!:-D

Amy

first post

Welcom to my blog.

Hi, my name is Amy.

I'm from Toyama, so I have started cooking since I came to Chiba.

Firstly, I couldn't anything even Japanese omlet. hahahaha
What I used to be able to make is only cup noodles.....

but now, I love to cook, I love to create new recepies, I love to check cooking blogs, and I love to eat of course.

In this blog, I am gonna write about dishes which I made mainly.

i hope you enjoy my blog from today!!!


Amy:-D