Homegrown Salad

The first homegrown salad this year. The weather has been so bad the lettuce leaves are only from the glass house, apart from the rocket which grows like weeds.

カミングアウトすると1番上にある黄緑のレタスは義父家の温室から来た。

Chapter One

Went to Food & Wine magazine's Readers' Evening at Chapter One. Had a good time. Though I wasn't impressed with the starter or the 'sashimi' style organic salmon (there was nothing sashimish about it!!), I was very very impressed with the dessert. The gratin and the slow cooked 'cow's cheek' was tasty, too.

次のダブリンのイベントに行きたかったが、チケットは全部売り切れであった。
向かいのドイツ人のご主人とアイルランド人の奥様のご夫婦とのお話も楽しかった。

Chiffon Cake (Tube Cake)

It's my husband's birthday today (10th May), so I worked (quite) hard and baked this cake. It's very popular in Japan.

数年前に日本で購入したNHKの「きょうの料理」のテキストのレシピを使用

Homemade Croissants

At last I succeeded to make decent croissants!! They were a bit small, but tasted really well. It was time consuming, but it was definitely worth the effort.

何度か挑戦して初めて上手く行った。

Candied Orange & Lemon Peels

Made with organic orange and lemon skins, using Terence Conran's recipe book. I also made chocolate coated ones, hoping that they may taste like the Amorino Chocolate from Paris.

美味しい廃物利用。

Beaufield Mews

Went to Beaufield Mews where my friend had a wedding reception. This is where we had our wedding reception 9 years ago, and my friend and his then girl friend were our guests, too.

The food was lovely (just like 9 years ago!). And it's very near our house, only 10 minutes' drive.

家が近いんだからもっと行きたい。レストランだけではなくアンティークやアートのディーラーでもある。

Black Sole (Dover Sole)

Cooked black sole I got in the Farmers' Market, using Carol Tennant's recipe.
It was very tasty :-))

イギリスではDover Soleとも呼ばれ、日本語では「ミナミシマウシノシタ」というらしい。

Marron Chocolate Daifuku

A gift from a Japanese friend of mine. Daifuku is one of the traditional Japanese sweets. I'm not particularly mad about traditional Japanese sweets, but this one was nice as there was no aduki bean custard, and has a chocolate flavour.

餅、団子、饅頭、栗が苦手な夫も美味しいと絶賛した！

Amorino Chocolate

My French friend brought this from Paris. It's very nice.
http://www.amorino.fr/index.htm

一気食いできそう...。

Homemade Bread

The breadmaker has been failing for the past several times, so I baked bread manually. It turned out really nice. The key might be shifting the flour.

見かけは悪いが美味しかった。ブレッドメーカーは買い直す必要ありかも...。

Homemade Doughnuts

Used mashed potatoes, following the recipe by Linda Collister.
This is one of my favourite doughnuts recipes.
Yum!!


作っている最中、最近見た映画「トウキョウ・ソナタ」で
小泉今日子演じる母親が「ドーナツ作ったのー」と言ってるのに
誰も食べてくれなかったところをふと思い出した。