Vietnamese Fresh Springrolls

I like Vietnamese food because they use a lot of vegetables.  I made this Vietnamese spring roll wrapping with rice paper.  The sauce I also made just imagine I was in Vietnam while I was cooking:)

Strasbourg

We went to Strasbourg, France to see our very good friends who were used to live in Singapore.
Strasbourg is a beautiful city and we all really enjoyed everything there, view, food, wine, and the most precious time with being good friends together.

This is the city.

This is Flams.  The most famous snack in Strasbourg.  The same brand restaurant opened in Singapore, so I would like to try if it's as good as in Strasbourg.

My friend made a lot of nice home made food.  This is one of them.

Lots of delicious cheeses with a cute cheese plate.

We also had traditional Alsace food at a restaurant.  It was very tasty and atmosphere was so comfortable and cozy.

The church was lighten up.  What a beautiful time!  Thank you, dear our friends!!

Dutch First Food

The most well known Dutch first foods are Bitterbollen(meat roll covered in breadcrumbs) and Frikandel (a skinless minced meat sausage).  


When I went to Holland first time to meet my husband's parents, I went out with his friends one night.  We had lots of food and drinks and in the end, they all went to buy Frikandel from a vending machine to eat.  I was very surprised that they could still eat after the huge meal and drinks as well as the vending machine is there!  Well, actually Japanese people also go eat Ramen after drinking so it's kind of same concept, I guess.  

Europe

I was in Holland and France on holiday.  I had a fantastic time there!

This is Holland.  Do you know there are more bicycles than population in Holland?  This road is for bicycles.  I walked every morning and saw nice view which totally different from Singapore.

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.

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.  

Vegetarian Lasagna

I am not a vegetarian, but sometimes I don't feel like eating meats or fish for dinner.  But my family likes meats and fish then I make one appetizer of fish or meat and vegetarian main dish.

This is what I made.  It is vegetarian lasagna.  It has eggplants, zucchini, red paprika.  Jut grilled them before you put in the oven.  Then make like normal lasagna.  It tastes good if you make your own tomato sauce which I always do and very simple.  Chopped garlic with olive oil then put one can tomato diced.  Salt and pepper and cook until it became thick for about 20 minutes.