Helloo!

So already week 4!

The week started perfectly with a holiday on Monday, so it was a 3 days week-end yeah!
I didn’t do much on Monday, mainly tidying and housework… But I did an experiment that was a total “Meeeh!”: Stir-fried udon with shrimps and veggies. Not worth writing a recipe about it.

Tuesday was Ramen day at the usual restaurant. Quite simple ramen but still very good. And I love those blanched veggies and those sweet beans. I don’t really remember what I did for dinner but I think it was fish with rice. And then Ice cream!!!

On Wednesday, first time having Japanese curry not made by me =D It is more chunky than mine but the flavor was quite close. Just delicious. And it was served with a salad that had a lovely creamy sesame dressing. Lovely! And for dinner … hum … I don’t really remember this week >.< But I guess nothing worth remembering.

 

I think I looked a little bit stupid on Thursday. There were Karaage for lunch — chicken Karaage — and it was so juicy and I guess quite marinated that I thought it was pork. But it even had this “Pork fat” flavor >.< So one of my teammate corrected me when I told somebody that we had prok Karaage. But it was really delicious. And I was quite surprised by the side dishes. First a pickled cucumber salad with surimi — sound weird I know — that tasted AMAZING. Then a small “salad” that seemed to be slightly stir-fried. Very good too.

For dinner I made my easy “Shashlik” recipe and then wrote it on the blog.

Friday equal Seminar Day. Had two seminars that day, first one on “Multi Echo fMRI” and the second about “Transcranial direct-current stimulation”. Yeah, trying to learn as much as I can while here. The first one was during lunch, so got some take-away Katsu that I told about the first week. That egg mayo sauce really intrigues me.

For dinner I decided to try another marinade for chicken. Actually I put it to marinate a day before. It was quite good — sesame oil, soy sauce, paprika, chili powder and garam masala — but I think it will be better to marinate it and then batter it and deep-fry it. So will do that and see which is the best and then write the recipe here.

In the end was still quite hungry so went to the convenience store and got some Karaage with some weird salty sauce that tasted quite good.

Finally the week-end. I know it was a 4 days week but I felt quite tired all the week long — even more now. So I had to fetch some delivery from the post office, so decided to walk to the Ibaraki post office. It took me about 30 minutes but it was a nice morning walk. Then I went to do my shopping — another 30 minutes walk — but it was a quite nice weather so it was good. Bought some food for the week and all the ingredients for a Burger Party at my place with my team, so took the monorail to go home. I still struggled to get home with my hands full of bags. But the reward was worth it: I got myself a big set of sushi for lunch. SOOOO good! Just didn’t like the shiso leaf that they add in the scallops sushi.

I got some Takoyaki too but squashed the box, so no picture. There were nice but I still don’t fully get the fact that it has some liquid batter in the middle.

Today — Sunday — I am feeling very tired, don’t know why so mainly stayed home. Had some Salmon filet that I cut into Sashimi and had it with some rice for lunch. Then managed to motivate myself to go outside — it was raining >.< — and walked to the shop to get the burger buns that I couldn’t by the day before. Got some vodka at the same time :D. Then came home and had some cabbage salad and an experimental fried rice. Nothing worth picturing ^^.

So will go to sleep early, and see you next week 😉