cooking blows my daily frustration :)

 It was Saturday when I was so exhausted from work, and I thought I need to create something good in this world. So I rushed to a local supermarket, bought a variety of vegetables, then head back to home. Within minutes, I stood the kitchen, began to cook. Two types of jams (banana with caramel sauce, and freshly harvested grape jam) comes first, then baked a bread. As I kept cooking  so many food and see them accumulated in the refrigerator, I felt deeply content. It reminds me of a famous spy film "Munich", which, in the story, the star actor cooked excessively as he felt frustrated chasing the targets. Well, for me, cooking is something fulfilling my heart :)

All I need is a fine meal.

  Last weekday was extremely busy ones, with endless chores, backlashing and criticising here and there in the workplace, I hate it all. I really felt like being home, doing something with my hands, such as cooking hot meals or drawing on my sketchbook... So I took days off, cooked many treats, slept well, then I came back on track.

 Fresh raw fish sashimi (刺身) along with steamed rice, soy soup miso-shiru (味噌汁) with tofu and green onion, and  green salad with boiled pumpkin and sliced maribo cheese from Denmark on top :)

 Yeah, I need flower in my life, you know!

 As ever, nice meals made me feel content, and I do love what I cook. It's quite important for me to create something I love :)

food, food, food!

 I've been under a huge pressure for the past several weeks, and sometimes I was really in need for getting out of everything, and head to a nice restaurant.  Like always, I love eat out for sushi. Sitting on a chair while sushi chefs behind the counter cook sushi, take care of whole fresh fish to cut, slice with care, then put them in the fridge. I always like every move sushi chefs do. And sushi itself...it was gorgeous!

 It came along with an egg custard dish chawan-mushi (茶碗蒸し). It looks like pudding, but it's a meal with Japanese soup dashi, a shrimp, a chopped chicken and Japanese herb in it.

 The next day came with B.L.T. sandwich in a cafe HARBS in a fancy district Roppongi. Long thick sliced bacons were well grilled, and its oily taste was the best combination with tomato and bread! Chatting with my friend, I also enjoyed a big portion of cake. (HARBS is a famous for its huge size cake)

 And that's not all: I joined a dinner party held nearby. I visited earlier so to help cook. He said he was going to cook a pot dish with pheasant from Shikoku island, and I made up my mind to cut variety of vegetables while he was making soup from the scratch. (The soup eventually took two hours to cook, for the record!)

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 As well as eating out, cooking myself is so much fun for me. Well... I cook too much,  I know it!
 Sure, we have plenty of annoying thing in our life, but as long as fine meals are there, I would be okay ;)

Coffee time in my room.

Ever since a handy, simple espresso pot have come to my home, I spend much more time taking dense strong coffee with smooth foam milk while reading books in late evening. As a person who loves being at home, it's full of joy being with nice drink and novel ;)