Wednesday 11 July 2012

Tomato Sauce Pasta & Mushroom salad

Tomato Sauce is very easy to make, but there are so many ways to make.  My recipe is from the school I went to learn how to make pasta and sauce.  This is very simple yet very tasty.

Use very good quality extra virgin olive oil.  Put the oil in the pan and add chopped garlic.  When you smell the garlic, put canned tomato.  There are many kinds of canned tomatoes so you better try some of them and choose what you like the best.  Then reduce heat and cook until it becomes thick.  This is the most important to make it thick otherwise it is very watery and taste bad.  You have to be patient if you want to make good one:)  Salt and pepper then ready!


I like to eat raw mushroom.  In Japan, not many people eat raw mushroom, but I learned to eat it like this when I was living in America.  Just slice mushrooms and mix with lemon juice, olive oil, salt and pepper and Italian parsley.



Sunday 1 July 2012

Salmon Maki

My daughters' friends came over for a sleepover tonight and they said they like Salmon Sushi.  I made this Salmon and cucumber maki for them as well as I made pasta with short rib sauce(I will update this recipe later) as they are Italian girls!!  They liked my pasta and sauce and they did Okawari (2nd round of their pasta)!!  



My husband made a very nice drink tonight as I had been in the kitchen almost all day today to create new recipe as well as dinner for tonight.

This is Frozen Margarita.  It was really nice to drink after all cooking in the kitchen.