[JFood]: Sushi, Bento #21-22 + Japan Blabbering!☆ミ
こんばんは！~ 
First of all sorry that I haven´t been around that much lately. It´s a pretty busy week. I try to catch up with my f-list later!
Yesterday I made sushi, because we had a Christmas party @ my university. It was also s.th. like a goodbye party, because we won´t see each other very often now that we all graduated. (In Germany there´s usually not a graduation ceremony, although it depends @ which uni you´re studying and WHAT you´re studying)
Anyway everyone brought s.th. yummie to eat - and because I just came back from Japan, of course I made sushi (^^'')
My prof. wanted me to tell s.th. about Japan, so I did. She was actually in Japan 2 times as well (for work) and she totally fell in love with Japan + the Japanese food - just like me.
So we really talked a LOT about Japan while a lot of the others were listening to us ^^; .... aaahhh~ yappari ... I really love that country and I wanna go back (~____~) .....
Just some things we talked about:
In Japan you won´t see THAT many disabled people. Of course there must be a lot (at least not less than in other countries, esp. if you consider what happened during WWII, nee?). But Japan is a land of ignorance when it comes to this.
They seem to hide the disabled people and when they see some, they tend to ignore them.
This I find very interesting, esp. if you consider that the jdrama "1 Litre of tears" was pretty popular, no?
Another thing is that the contraception method #1 in Japan is not the birth control pill, but abortions!!! It seems that it´s pretty normal for a Japanese woman to have one abortion after another. (that´s why there are so many stone statues with bibs and stuff everywhere - remember I posted photos of them - their kind of mourning work, I guess)
And the rate of divorces is very high after retirement - perhaps because the man who was ALWAYS working till late ... is now suddenly at home all day .... perhaps some couples recognize that they don´t have much in common anymore etc. bla bla.
I thought this was very interesting. (Of course my prof. did some research - that´s why she knew - in case you´re wondering what nonsense I´m blabbering about ;P)
Ahhhhm~ ... anyway here are photos of the sushi I made ^^;
First of all (the most important ingredient ever XD): teh rice (^3^)
Yaah~ I´ve finally bought new sushi rice and this time WITHOUT worms!!!! ;o; ......
I love my rice cooker
- it´s really a time-saver!
Tamagoyaki (sweet Japanese omelette)
Canned tuna with mayo
All of the ingredients I used this time:
TunaxMayo, Cucumber+Avocado, smoked salmon, tamagoyaki
Tamago+Cucumber+Salmon = nice color-trio! It really gives nice color-effects, don´t you think so? (^^')
And that was all I made. About 400g rice (which becomes much more after cooking) => ~6 rolls => ~ 30+ single sushi-rolls
Question (just because I´m curious): Do you prefer to eat your sushi "fresh" (when the rice is still warm and the sushi was just made) or cooled (when it was left in the refrigerator for a while)? ^____^
While I´m at it, I´ll also post the 2 bentos I made this week:
Bento #21:
Right Tier: Fried rice with carrot, red paprika slices + scrambled eggs (seasoned with salt, pepper, light soy sauce, mirin, paprika)
Left Tier: Apple slices, egg tomatoes, haribo
(and YES I do love fried rice! XD)
Bento #22:
That was the filling I used for my onigiri this time: sliced turkey hen + gherkin (<3)
My first tamagoyaki. Well ... it´s not perfect yet (plus I don´t have a rectangular pan, but ... oh well~ ^^ .. it was yummie!)
Top Tier: Filled teddy onigiri + tamagoyaki
Middle Tier: 2 filled triangular-shaped onigiri + tamagoyaki
Bottom Tier: Haribo + kiwi slices
And I love the sencha (煎茶) I bought in Japan!
You really taste the difference and the color is suuuch a nice green!
Request - to my German f-list:
Hat jemand von euch gestern Heroes angeschaut und kann mir grob erzählen, was passiert ist? (;o;) ... ich bin erst kurz vor 1Uhr heimgekommen und dachte die Wiederholung würde wie JEDE WOCHE um 1Uhr kommen, aber AUSGERECHNET gestern/heute haben sie es auf 0Uhr verlegt (und zukünftig bleibt das wohl auch so) .... ;______; .....
First of all sorry that I haven´t been around that much lately. It´s a pretty busy week. I try to catch up with my f-list later!
Yesterday I made sushi, because we had a Christmas party @ my university. It was also s.th. like a goodbye party, because we won´t see each other very often now that we all graduated. (In Germany there´s usually not a graduation ceremony, although it depends @ which uni you´re studying and WHAT you´re studying)
Anyway everyone brought s.th. yummie to eat - and because I just came back from Japan, of course I made sushi (^^'')
My prof. wanted me to tell s.th. about Japan, so I did. She was actually in Japan 2 times as well (for work) and she totally fell in love with Japan + the Japanese food - just like me.
So we really talked a LOT about Japan while a lot of the others were listening to us ^^; .... aaahhh~ yappari ... I really love that country and I wanna go back (~____~) .....
Just some things we talked about:
In Japan you won´t see THAT many disabled people. Of course there must be a lot (at least not less than in other countries, esp. if you consider what happened during WWII, nee?). But Japan is a land of ignorance when it comes to this.
They seem to hide the disabled people and when they see some, they tend to ignore them.
This I find very interesting, esp. if you consider that the jdrama "1 Litre of tears" was pretty popular, no?
Another thing is that the contraception method #1 in Japan is not the birth control pill, but abortions!!! It seems that it´s pretty normal for a Japanese woman to have one abortion after another. (that´s why there are so many stone statues with bibs and stuff everywhere - remember I posted photos of them - their kind of mourning work, I guess)
And the rate of divorces is very high after retirement - perhaps because the man who was ALWAYS working till late ... is now suddenly at home all day .... perhaps some couples recognize that they don´t have much in common anymore etc. bla bla.
I thought this was very interesting. (Of course my prof. did some research - that´s why she knew - in case you´re wondering what nonsense I´m blabbering about ;P)
Ahhhhm~ ... anyway here are photos of the sushi I made ^^;
First of all (the most important ingredient ever XD): teh rice (^3^)
Yaah~ I´ve finally bought new sushi rice and this time WITHOUT worms!!!! ;o; ......
I love my rice cooker
- it´s really a time-saver!
Tamagoyaki (sweet Japanese omelette)
Canned tuna with mayo
All of the ingredients I used this time:
TunaxMayo, Cucumber+Avocado, smoked salmon, tamagoyaki
Tamago+Cucumber+Salmon = nice color-trio! It really gives nice color-effects, don´t you think so? (^^')
And that was all I made. About 400g rice (which becomes much more after cooking) => ~6 rolls => ~ 30+ single sushi-rolls
Question (just because I´m curious): Do you prefer to eat your sushi "fresh" (when the rice is still warm and the sushi was just made) or cooled (when it was left in the refrigerator for a while)? ^____^
While I´m at it, I´ll also post the 2 bentos I made this week:
Bento #21:
Right Tier: Fried rice with carrot, red paprika slices + scrambled eggs (seasoned with salt, pepper, light soy sauce, mirin, paprika)
Left Tier: Apple slices, egg tomatoes, haribo
(and YES I do love fried rice! XD)
Bento #22:
That was the filling I used for my onigiri this time: sliced turkey hen + gherkin (<3)
My first tamagoyaki. Well ... it´s not perfect yet (plus I don´t have a rectangular pan, but ... oh well~ ^^ .. it was yummie!)
Top Tier: Filled teddy onigiri + tamagoyaki
Middle Tier: 2 filled triangular-shaped onigiri + tamagoyaki
Bottom Tier: Haribo + kiwi slices
And I love the sencha (煎茶) I bought in Japan!
You really taste the difference and the color is suuuch a nice green!
Request - to my German f-list:
Hat jemand von euch gestern Heroes angeschaut und kann mir grob erzählen, was passiert ist? (;o;) ... ich bin erst kurz vor 1Uhr heimgekommen und dachte die Wiederholung würde wie JEDE WOCHE um 1Uhr kommen, aber AUSGERECHNET gestern/heute haben sie es auf 0Uhr verlegt (und zukünftig bleibt das wohl auch so) .... ;______; .....