Okonomiyaki party

Okonomiyaki is one of Japanese traditionla foods. I made it with my friends for our friends and us. I'm going to write how to make it. flower, eggs, cabbage, pork, and sauce for okonomiyaki. First you need to cut cabbage into small pieces. Next, mix flower, dashi( seaweed broth), and cabbage. Next, you put pork on warm pan, and put mix stuff (you made in the first step) on the pork. Then you turn out it and when the surface looked bright brown, it's done!! I think Okonomi means " you can put anything you want to." Therefore if you like sea foods, you can put them. I sometimes put kimuchi or mochi. It's taste good.Why don't you try this? This time there were a vegetarian and an Islamic believer, so we made some okonmiyaki without pork. Okonomiyaki is good, convenient foods to make many people. I recommend you to make this for home party or something! I hope everyone like this.

International Food Party

On Christmas day, I joined the international party+Christmas party in seminar house 4.
In a seminar house, many international students who came from several countries lived. Some volunteers made each countries traditional foods for the residents. American, Australian, French, Italian, Vietnamese, Mexican, Japanese made each country food. Team Japanese made okonomiyaki, chirashi sushi, and karaage. Other country teams made burger, tacos, pasta, and other stuff.( I forgot the name of those foods.) There were some foods I never ate. All foods they made were delicious. I wanted to know the recipe. This day was a special day because almost every residents gathered and ate dinner together. I had a great time there.

Karaage was most popular for the international students. I don't know karaage is Japanese traditional food or not. What do you think? I'm going to write how to make karaage. It is so easy. First, you cut chicken into small pieces. Then you put karaage powder on the chicken. Finally, you dip them into hot oil for about 5 minutes. I recommend you to remove oil a little bit from fried chicken by using oil cut paper. You can cook this very easy and fast. Why don't you make them for today's dinner?^^

Japanese OSECHI

Happy new year 2009!

In Japan, many family make several foods for oshougatsu(January 1st through 3rd)before January 1st. This is a Japanese traditional event. These foods are called osechi in Japanese.They make some kinds of foods and pack them into big lunch boxes. I heard from my mother why these traditional food making began. She said," Now, most of grocery stores open from January 1st; however, long time ago they didn't open during oshogatu. Because people couldn't get foods, they start making foods for shougatsu. " The foods in osechi box is not easily rotten. In the box, there are grilled scallops(hotate), fish sausage(kamaboko), tsukudani(chicken, carrot, and burdock etc..), herring roe(kazunoko) and so on. All most all foods are Japanese traditional foods. This picture is my lunch on January 1st. I had a part time job on that day, so I brought this there. I ate osechi for 3 times. I don't want to eat this any more now.