Simple Arrabbiata Spaghetti and Stir-Fry Taugeh

My kitchen space is so small that I can only cook one-dish meals conveniently. I have been thinking about how to cook for a party in that small space. After making dinner, I thought that this could be one of the choices for main dish - organic Arrabbiata spaghetti. In order to remember the steps, I am writing this down.

Stir-fry chop garlic and dried 小エビ。Then add in cut yellow pepper and shiitake mushrooms. Pour in the Arrabbiata sauce and add black pepper at the end. I used whole-wheat spaghetti and it tastes really good!

Japan has a fascination with fish- or squid-cakes. Today, I stir-fried 'taugeh' (Hokkien for bean sprouts), ねぎ、carrots, cabbage, mushrooms and the eda-mame fish cake, with chopped garlic and oyster sauce. Pretty good too! Simple dishes makes a happy stomach and person.

Next up, I will try to make 'sambal' (Malay for chili paste) without the 'belacan' (Malay for dried shrimp paste) and apple-fruit juice jelly. Apparently, in summer, Japanese people likes to make transparent fruit jellies. I saw a grandma making the kiwi, peach, and apple fruit jelly on the television today - inspired.

Excellent Japanese Course Dinner near to Ookayama Station

I have been to Satou a Japanese Restaurant near to Ookayama Station in 2013. I had a 10-course Japanese dinner there, which was excellent! I went there again tonight. I am delighted to find out that the restaurant is now featured in the Michelin Guide for 2016. Tonight the course started with a cold appetiser (summer season), an assorted dist of salad and boiled fish, sashimi, pumpkin soup with spring onions, grilled fish, boiled prawns with wakame and young pumpkin, vegetable tempura, Niigata chicken and ginger、 and rice with miso soup. The dessert was melon (Hokkaido) and matcha cream. I have Hakaisan Sake (Niigata) and Umeshu. Happy stomach makes a happy person :)

I did not take any pictures tonight as I wanted to concentrate speaking in Japanese with my hosts. But I took some photos of the food in Spring 2013. Enjoy!