Tamagoyaki

My mom had a rectangular frying pan for frying… rectangular eggs? Nope. She used to prepared tamagoyaki.

And today was one of those “no food at night” days, but I didn’t give up. I was watching TV while thinking what I could do with only eggs, and during my zapping something catched my eye. That was a Japanese TV show where teach how to make tamagoyaki and my cooking spirit woke up.

Sadly, the frying pan is totally ruined (thanks oxide), so I had to improvise with a standard circular frying pan.

I hope next time try with spinach and take some pictures.

Something light

Well, after this cooking marathon, I need a break. But I still have some stuff, like lettuce from somen salad, spinach, carrots and eggs from the maki. As I didn’t have any clue about a dish using them, I just boiled the veggies and fried the eggs. A little bit of salt and they taste perfect.

After that, I felt healthy… but empty, as always I eat vegetables.

Sōmen Salad

Until now, I made dishes I know. When you know the results is easier. What about look for a recipe and try it?

As part of my plan, I googled and found this one, based on sōmen. The only thing I can say is that’s amazing. I want to try it again, but this time more prepared because I couldn’t find kamaboko either char siu at time.

I have to found another wonderful recipe with somen, I still have some packages.

Maki v2.0

Surprise! For second time in my whole life, I prepared Makisushi. I had some ingredients (nori, rice vinegar, rice) from the first time, I only needed to buy the fillings and I chose spinach, omelette, carrots, dried tuna and cucumber.

The most fascinating thing about sushi is that you can fill it with whatever you want, just be original.

I cooked the rice (sushimeshi) and vegetables using microwave. Rice was a little bit difficult, but you can found some nice recipes, like this one courtesy of Sushi day (http://sushiday.com). Also you can found some interesting ideas there. To dry de tuna, I cooked drained tuna from a can in an omelete pan, very slowly. Be patient.

The secret of make a good roll is the makisu. I had one from my mom and I already bought mine. It’s really useful and necesary.

I don’t have pictures of the results just the maki before roll it, sorry. I was hungry.

Tuna and eggs

Today was one of those days I got home and didn’t have food. Also it was too late to call delivery and sum with my boredom about fast food; my only choice was trying to cook something.

As my mom used to do, I checked what I had in the kitchen and what I could do with this. I had eggs and cans of tuna, so I mixed them and made a tuna omelet. There is no mystical recipe behind this, just mix 2 eggs and tuna (without its oil). Be careful don’t use too much tuna or your omelet is going to break down in pieces. Add salt.

It wasn’t as good as I expected, but at least my stomach is not empty. I didn't drain the tuna's oil for my first omelete. No good results.

About my plan, I really have a good idea of what I want to do this weekend; list is ready.