Special Omelette

What do you think this omelette? It looks like meringue:)
This is original omelette eaten at Le MontSaint-Michel in France.
Le Mont Saint-Michel is church on the island and it registed in World Heritage Site.

I have been there this spring vacation and eaten it!
It was very soft and rich taste.
This omelette is so big, it shared between few people.
When a waiter cut it, they beat silver plate loudly.
Therefore, it is one of performance for tourist.

Next, I will explain this special omelette's history.

Madame Annette Poulard opened small hotel in1888.

She had been cooked over 50years and 700recipes.

That omelette was one of her special recipe.

She cooked it because many pilgrimwho go to La Mont Saint-Michel came hotel with hunger.

She thought of making easily dish for them. Therefore, this omelette was born!

She put in egg and fresh cream into copper bowl and mixed many times.

Then, baked it copper pan on firewood.

If you want to eat it, I recommend going to France.

The restaurant located in Le Mont Saint-Michel.

In addition, there are some tour which go to there with lunch.

You can eat special omelette for lunch.

Spanish food

This week, I went to Spanish reataurant "Cala Montjoi" with seminar member and professor.

It located in near Makuhari station.

The professor chose it becuse his specialty is Spanish studying.

We enjoyed drinking spanish wine and eating paella and Churros.

There were many kinds of it. For example, nomal, squid ink and red pepper.

After eating, the professor told us about Paella.

We may think that Paella is a rice dish with sea food.

However, Paella means pan in Spanish.

People use very big pan in the festival.

Look at top picture!

In addition, Each spanish home have own paella pan.

They don't eat paella everyday. Their usual dish is healthy.

I was surprised at it because there are many oily food in spanish cuisine.

We also heard about Churros.

In Japan, it is known as sweets with sugar.

However, there are no one with sugar in Spain.

It looks like bread , he said.

I learned many spanish culture through that dinner!

Overcome summer lethargy!

Recently, my friends suffer from summer heat.

They lose energy and seem to be tired.

I also get tired from recent hot temperature.

Then, I decide to search the food style which prevent summer lethargy.

The most important thing is eat well-balanced diet.

We have to eat meal three times in a day even though you don't have appetite.

There are some nutrients which are good for body.

Vitamin B1 is good for recovering fatigue.

Foods which contains it are pork,eel and products of soybean.

Vitamin C is for increasing resistance of stress and heat.

Vegetables and fruits have that nutrition.

If you don't have appetite, add some spices or acid seasoning to dish.

For example, wasabi, red pepper, ume and vinegar.

You will get appetite from those items.

Yesterday, I cooked a dinner to overcome summer lethargy.
Salad with pork, tofu, juice pressed from bitter oranges(pon-zu) and Plums.
I think this dish is good for this summer because I made it easily and got short nutritions.

Special product in Nagano

Hello. How's going?
Recently, hot days are continuing and it takes away my appetite.
I have lost some of my weight. But, I know it's wrong diet from our class:P

Today, I will introduce a appetizing dish, Oyaki. Do you know that?
As I written in the past article, my grand parents live in Nagano prefecture.
Oyaki's origin is there. So, I have eaten it since I was child and I like it.

Oyaki is a Japanese dumpling wrapped soft buckweat dough.
It is cooked by roasting on an iron pan, that is different from ordinary dumpling.
It contains vegetables like nozawana, eggplant, mushroom,pumpkin and okara with miso, salt or soybean taste.
In the past, vegetables and edible wild plants were common.

Recently, red bean jam is made for travelar's souvenir.

If you want to eat Oyaki in Nagano, you can find it at souvernir shop, super market or parking area.

Korean dish

I went to Korea with my friend last weekend.

We left Japan on Friday and came back on Sunday.

So, we had a very busy trip.

Today, I will introduce a Korean popular dish,Samgyeopsal.

Samgyeopsal is fatty sliced pork belly meat and popular evening meal in Korea.

It is cooked on a grill at the dinner table.

We went to a resutaurant where we can eat 8 kinds of taste in Sinchon, Korea.

That restaurant is introduced on Japanese guide book.

There were 8 kinds of taste samgyeopsal like nomal, wine, herb, curry, miso and gochujang.

We could enjoy eating it. My favorite flavor was miso because it suited pork meat.

There are many grilled meat restaurant in Korea.

If you find good one, please tell me!

Healthy food:Okara

Do you know about Okara?

Okara is white or yellowish pulp when soybean filtered in th production of soy milk.

It is traditional food in Japan, Korea and China.

In addition it has uesd as vegetarian food in Western nations since 20 century.

Okara is low in fat,high in fiber and also contain protein,calcium and so on.

It is known as diet food in Japan and it can use variety of food like hamburger,croquette,cookies and doughnut.

Today, I cooked Japanese popular side dishes,unohana.

It consists of okara cooked with soy sauce,mirin,sliced carrots.

I cold cook it easily and it took within 30 minutes.

I recommend cooking okara dishes becaus it is healthy and cheap.

Surprisingly,okara costs within ￥100　at super market.

Croissant

Today, I will introduce "Croissant".
As you know from past article, I like croissant very much.
I like eating a variety of Croissant, but I didn't know about it.
So, I searched it.

The Kipferl is ancester of croissant.
It has been documented in Austrian publishment 13th century.
The Kipferl can be made plain or with nuts.
Its shape is different from ordinary croissant. Picture of that is Following.

Next, I will introduce variation of croissant.

The croissant we eat in Japan is covered with a sweet glaze or filled with chocolate. However,there are different type of it in each countries.

In France and Spain, it sold without filling and eaten without added butter.

In United States, sweet filling or toppings are common, and be filled with ham and cheese.

In Germany, it sometimes filled Nutella(hazelnut sweet spread).

After searched of croisant, I learned many kinds of it.

I want to try eating many croissant when I go to oversea travel in the future.