The reward for the memorable stage of us!!

Few days ago,

The Hamakaze Festival finished!

Did everyone enjoy it?

I actually perticipated the singing stage of my club,

and I sang at millennium house^^

Anyway, after finishing our stage,

we went to the "OUTBACK" near the Kaihinmakuhari Station.

I guess some people have been to there.

"OUTBACK" is an American stakehouse,

has been opend since 1988,

and it's named after "the unexploded ground" in Australia.

As you can guess from the name,

this stakehouse is based on the Australian boom at that time.

Its stuffs were well trained

and their motto is that

1) thinking from the customers' perspective,

2) providing the high quality dishes and sevices.

"OUTBACK" came out in 2000 in Japan.

When you go into the restaurant,

you can feel the Austaralian bar of the good old days.

They provide hearty menus in a reasonable cost

and you may be under the illusion that you are in the abroad.

So, I would like to introduce what I ate!!

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Bloomin' Onion
It was soooooo delicious!!
The giant onion was literally blooming!!
I can be full only eating it.
I strongly recommend it!! 

  

   

Queensland Salad

I love this salad!

We could choose the dressing,

and our choice was "caesar".

 

Garlic Stake

Actually I don't like the meat...

so I only ate the vegetables!!hehe

My friends said...

"The strong garlic flavor was amazing."

"If you eat one piece of meat,

your mouth will be full of the garlic flavor."

 

Alice Spring's Chicken

I love chicken and potatoes!!

So I was satisfied with this volume!

It was also delicious!

 

Chocolate thunder from down under
What a long name it has!
The melting chocolate sauce was great.
Hot sauce with cold ice cream...
It is a perfect collaboration!

I was recommended this stakehouse

by my private English teacher.
He comes from Australia
and he loves his country.
So he sometimes visit this restaurant.
Especially, his favourite menu is bloomin' onion.
I totally agree with him!!
It was unbelievablly delicious!!
I couldn't stop eating it.
I want everyone to try to eat it once.

Oh, there is another advantage.
If you order the one softdrik,
you can receive the refil of the drink.
And you can also eat free hunny bread. 
You can get another one again whenever you want to eat.
That is wonderful!!

If you want to feel atmosphere of abroad,
don't you visit OUTBACK
and eat delicious stakes?
You are garanteed to be able to feel that you are in abroad!!

 

Precious persimmon tree

The Autumn is the best in all of the seasons.

One of the reasons is

autumn is comfortable season to stay.

For reading, eating, playing...

as the Japanese proverb says

" Autumn is the best season for ~"!

In my case,

the autumn for eating is suit to me.

Because my favourite food is usually using autumn vegetables or fluit.

Especially, I love the salad using persimmon!

(Of course, I love Houtou, previous post, anyway)

You may be able not to imagine that

persimmon is mixed with cucumbers or fish sausages.

But as well as the oranges or apples on salad,

persimmons are great with mayonnaise!!

In fact,

there is enough reason why I like the persimmons so much.

My house is near from my grandfather's house.

It's as close as we can see his house from my house,

and it takes 15 seconds to get to his place!

...Anyway, In his house garden,

there is a big persimmon tree.

When my mom was a child,

it brought so many persimmons.

But the older the tree became,

the fewer a number of persimmons we can gather in.

It is a little bit sad thing

because when I was a little girl,

I could gather them in some small measure

and we could divided a few of them.

oh...me gosh...

...Even though,

Persimmons tree is still alive and fine!

Look at them!!








Our precious persimmon tree gives us fruit this year again!!

Yeah~ X-D!!
This year's persimmons look more delicious than last year.

I cannot to help making my favourite salad soon!

Just the thought of it makes me hungry!

Continuing the previous post,

I recommend the autumn food again.

But this salad is more seasonal than Houtou

because we ordinally can eat persimmons only in autumn.

So if you are interested in pesimmon salad,

please try to make it!

Here is the recipe of "persimmon salad"!

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 "persimmon salad"

1) Cut the persimmons into quarter.

     Peer the skins and cut them into about 5-mm slices 

     then quarter (Icho-giri).

2) Cut the cucumbers into 2 pieces.                               Cut them into about 5-mm slices.

3) Cut fish sausages into about 3-mm slices.

4) Put all of the ingredients in the bowl and mix them with salt and pepper. (You can add the salt and pepper later)

5) Put the mayonnaise and mix them again.

                                                       6) Serve them over the dish and ...completion! 

( If the persimmons are less sweet, you had better put a little bit sugar.  And also if you put the flesh cream, it makes the taste milder.)

<INGREDIENTS>
*Persimmons ... 2
*Cucumbers ... 1
*Fish Sausages ... 3 (One sackful is enough)
*Salt and pepper ... Moderate anount
*Mayonnaise ... Moderate amount

As the option...
*Sugar ... Moderate amount  (depends on the sweet of persimmons)
*Flesh milk ... 1 or 2 tbsp

The special for cold days!

Even though the day before yesterday was terribly cold,

yesterday was as hot as we could spend all the day with t-shirt.

How strange days we have!

Anyway, because of the severe temperature difference,

my mother made this delicious traditional food for dinner.

This is "Houtou", especially famous in Yamanashi prefecture.

Houtou is like a Udon noodle.

Its characteristic is thick and springy noodle.

We commonly eat it with many vegetable;

carrot, welsh onion, eapecially pumkin is unbeliebably delicious!

My father comes from Yamanashi so my family often eat it in every this season.

I think we have special feeling to it and very familiar with it, too.

Even if Yamanashi is not directly my hometown,

I cannot stop feeling familiality with it.

Every winter, when we eat Houtou,

we feel end of summer and coming of autumn and winter.

 

And now, I would like to introduce about Houtou a little bit more.

As I said, "Houtou" is traditional food famous in Yamanashi prefecture.

Its shape looks like "Udon", but taste is more like "Suiton".

(Suiton is also made from flours and we knead it like a ball.

Then put them into the soup based on the soy sauce.)

In Yamanashi, you can find so many Houtou restaurants.

The soup is made by basicly miso and pumpkin is a good accent of this soup.

We don't need to boil the Houtou noodle in advance

because different from Udon noodle, it doesn't contain the salt.

And also it doesn't have body so when we boil it,

the soup becomes thickened.

In many cases, Houtou is made in large pot and divide it to each person.

The indredients are very different from the restautants or houses.

Some peopel use mushrooms or patatos, and others use chinese cabbage or burdock.

So there are many types of Houtou are existing.

And also it is different in each seasons.

In summer, the main vegetables are onion, carrot, or potatos,

In winter, satoimo (taro) potatos, chinese cabbage, or muchrooms,

it depends on the seasonal food.

Somehow  the same point of them is using many vegetable.

Houtou is also good for our body

because it contains a lot of vegetbles so we can gain dietary fiber or bitamin from it.

And also Houtou is made from flour so it gives us protein.

Because of these reasons, we may be able to say Houtou is a healthy food.

In the region nearby Yamanashi prefecture,

flour eating culture was very common and typical. 

Especially, Houtou is less use of water and flour

so this ecomonic food spreaded all the Yamanashi and near prefectures.

And as an another reason of spread,

Yamanashi was a difficult region to grow rice.

So flour or wheat eating habit was easily spread in this area.

Houtou has a long history and it has been eaten for many years.

It is amazing fact, isn't it?

This traditional food is very common for me.

Whenever I visit my grandpa's house in Yamanashi,

I always feel llike eating Houtou for you.

Houtou is a kind of my homemade tastes.

When you would like to eat something hot dishes,

I strongly recommend Houtou.

Why don't you eat Houtou in this autumun or winter time?

I am sure that you can be happy, hot, and healthy by it!!