Aug. 28

9:00am Breakfast : Salad(nappa letuce, carrot and toasted bread), 2 cups of coffee

11:45am Lunch : Pork and tomato curry, kale and garlic stirfry, corn rice

6:30pm Dinner : Japanese tapas, beer! at Kintaro

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

It is rare for me to have salad for breakfast. I went to an organic market this morning and got fresh nappa letuce. I added an organic carrot I bought last week and made salad. I liked it!

We went to Liberdade this evening. I was going to take J to a Chinese restaurant, Campeao, but it was packed. It was very disappointing. It has really good food and I want J to taste it. So I picked Kintaro, which is a Japanese pub.

Kobu-Ninjin

I like this! I bought many carrots and tried having them in different recipe. I use dashi-konbu, which is seaweed for making broth. So I don't need to add bouillon. It's a natural flavor.



Ingredientes :

1 middle carrot - chop finely

1 dashi konbu (5cm x 5cm) - cut finely by scissosrs

1 dried shitake

1 slice of ginger - mince

1 pinch of salt

2 tsp of soy sauce

1 cup of water

Preparations :

1. Bathe shitake in the water until getting soft

2. Chop shitake finely. Keep the water

3. Put shitake, water and all other ingredients in the pot

4. Cook it on the small heat until carrot gets tender (about 15 minutes?)

Aug. 27

6:05am Breakfast : vegetable soup with egg, a glass of soy milk, a cup of coffee

12:00pm Lunch : Bento Box ; fried rice

1:00pm ice cream

6:30pm Dinner : cheese & ham bun, sausage, beer! at bar

Breakfast

Bento Box

I was going to finish leftovers in the morning and eat out for lunch. But it was too much for breakfast. So I put everythings in the pan and made fried rice. You might see some ingredients you saw in yesterday's blog.

I have had ice cream for three days straight.........it was hot everyday. It can be an excuse?

Aug. 26

6:05am Breakfast : a glass of soy milk, black beans Onigiri, Tomato soup (told ya!), 2 cups of coffee

12:00pm Lunch : Bento Box ; scrambled egg, cooked carrot, shitake & konbu(seaweed), green beans, azuki-gohan(azuki beans rice)

3:00pm ice cream

6:30pm-9:30pm Dinner : beer & bar food! at Kintaro

Breakfast

Bento Box

I usually make dinner in the morning for hungry boy. I come back home late and it is no way that he can wait. This morning, I was preparing dinner at the kitchen as usual and showed it to J. He pointed at azuki-gohan and said "I don't like it". He sounded like he was making fun of my cooking. He must have thought that azuki gohan was my original recipe. Ok, it is the last time I make azuki gohan. But it is not what I made up. Azuki gohan is a traditional Japanese food. It is served at celebration party or happy occasion. The real name of azuki gohan is "Sekihan", which means red rice. We cook azuki beans and glutinous rice. During cooking, the bean colour rice to pale red.

I use regular rice not glutinous one. That's why I call mine, azuki gohan. Wait a minute. J might be right. In any way, I arranged the basic recipe and made it up?

Aug. 25

5:50am Breakfast : Miso-soup & egg, a glass of soy milk, 2 cups of coffee

9:00am crackers

12:00pm Lunch : Bento Box ; pasta with vegetable tomato sauce

3:00pm crackers

8:10pm Dinner : tomato soup, salad(letuce, tomato, walnuts with balsamic & olive oil)

Breakfast

Bento Box

Dinner

I cooked a piece of fish and some vegetables with tomato sauce for J's dinner. I used only one piece of fish. After J finished dinner, I added some water into the tomato sauce. That became my dinner. There is still some left. That means it will be my breakfast!

Aug. 24

6:10am Breakfast : Fied egg and carrot on the rice, Atemoya, 2 cups of coffee

9:45am fresh orange juice, pao de queijo

12:00pm Lunch : Bento Box ; kale & tuna, carrot, rice

12:45pm ice cream!

8:15pm Dinner : Miso-soup, Kale & tuna

9:00pm Beer

Breakfast

Atemoya : inside & outside

Bento Box

Dinner

It was the first time for me to eat atemoya. Is it called sugar apple in English? J has not had it before, either. It was good. It tastes like mixed pear and banana. Can't imagine? It is difficult to discribe. According to Wiki, the sugar apple grows in warm places, so it is harvested in Florida too. It would be nice if I can get it in the U.S.

Aug. 23

6:05am Breakfast : Misoshiru-gohan, a glass of soy milk, 2 cups of coffee

9:00am fresh orange juice

12:00pm Lunch : Bento Box ; Cooked fish, boiled green beans with sesami and soy sauce, pumpkin (from miso-soup!), red cabbage, rice

8:20pm Dinner : Miso-soup, a little piece of cooked fish, red cabbage, green beans, salad(leftover from last night!), a glass of soy milk

Breakfast

Bento Box : the picture can't be turned

Dinner

Aug. 22

6:15am Breakfast : Roast beef sandwich(I got a doggie bag last night), a cup of coffee

1:00pm-2:30pm Lunch : Sashimi, Sushi, Ramen, water

3:30pm Beer at bar

6:30pm Dinner : Salmon Sashimi, Chirashi-zushi, Tomato, Salad(letuce, carrot, wakame with carrot dressing), a can of beer, a glass of wine

Foods at a party

Ramen

Dinner

It was Sunday, but I had to go to a party on business. There were tons of food. I had ate just a little bit of sashimi and sushi, because I had known that I HAD to eat ramen at a different business place. The ramen was good. According to a person who was in charge of ramen soup, he used 15kg chicken bones and 15kg pork bones to make broth. It can't be bad ramen!

I have to remind you that I live in BRAZIL. I think I am lucky to be surrounded with Japanese food!

Aug. 21

9:00am Breakfast : Pumpkin soup, Scrambled egg, Red cabbage salad, Pao de queijo, a glass of water, a cup of coffee
1:30pm Lunch : Grilled fish, Kale and tomato stirfry, Carrot rice, a cup of pumpkin soup
8:00pm Dinner : Roast beef sandwich, Caipiroska com maracuja at benditos
9:00pm-10:00pm a glass of white wine, a glass of red wine


Breakfast

Lunch

This is very rare for me to make breakfast on the weekend. I usually wait for J to make breakfast. As soon as I see J go to the kitchen, I say "I want it, too!"
But today, I felt like I wanted to cook. (Be caferful, you might have a snow and storm tomorrow!)
I have not published my blog for while, but I had a lot vegetables as usuall.

Finally!

I moved to a new place in the same town. The old apartment was too big for J and me and it was not cheap. Well, thinking of the facilities, it was a good price. I say I don't make enough money and didn't have time to use those facilities.

I didn't publish blog, but I was fine and healthy. Sometimes I had eaten crappy food I never want to show on the blog. Anyway, I am back.

I will keep what I eat every day and the restaurants that I went.

This is what I had been doing while I was away from the blog.

Jul. 4

8:00am Breakfast : Onion Ume and Nori soup rice, 2 cups of coffee, green peas sweets

12:00pm Lunch : Hambuger, french fries, agua com gas

7:30pm Dinner : Steak, rice, potato

Breakfast

Jul. 3

9:00am Breakfast : Grilled fish, miso soup, okra and ume, rice

2:00pm Lunch : Tofu Tamanegi Don(cooked tofu and onion on rice in the bowl), miso soup

7:30pm Dinner : Grilled zucchini, pork with garlic, fish with cheese, 2 cans of beer, 2 glasses of red wine

9:30pm green peas sweets

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

Dessert

I had big breakfast this morning. I wanted to have something good to give me energy for today and to finish some food in the fridge. I am going to move to a new apartment next Monday. I pack everything on Saturday and Sunday. This is such a good experience to do this by myself in a foreign cocuntry. I am proud myself. I couldn't take care of even myself in my home country. I know this is not all myself. I appreciate J's support. Thanks, J.

Jul. 1

6:00am Breakfast : a glass of soy milk, Chicken soup, a cup of grean tea

12:00pm Lunch : Bento Box ; soy bean and koya-doufu dried curry

8:15pm Dinner : Chiken soup

Bento Box

Chiken soup

Jun. 30

5:50pm Breakfast : a glass of soy milk, Gomoku Mame, rice, a cups of coffee

12:00pm Lunch : Bento Box ; Buta no Syogayaki Don(grilled pork with ginger on rice)

9:00pm Dinner : Hamburger, Beer and Onion, pao de queijo, beer at bar

Breakfast

Bento Box

Jun. 29

5:45pm Breakfast : a glass of soy milk, Okura gohan, Gomoku Mame, 2 cups of coffee

3:00pm Lunch : Bento Box ; Grilled fish, Gomoku Mame, Okura Gohan

10:00pm Dinner : Chicken soup

Breakfast

Bento Box

Dinner

It was a long day. I had lunch at 3 pm and dinner at 10pm. Should I stay up late? I have heard that I shouldn't eat 3 hours before going to bed. I don't think I can keep myself awake that late. I woke up 5am this morning.

Jun. 28

5:40am Breakfast : Chicken sanwich, 2 cups of coffee

12:15pm Lunch : Bento Box ; Chiken Fried Rice, Gomoku Mame, Cooked sausage and beeef tail(someone brought)

7:45pm-9:00pm 3 can of beer(dinner?)

Bento Box

My lunch should have been healthy, but it was greasy and got a high calorie because of meat. As a proof, I was not hungry when I got home. So I decide to have beer for dinner. It is just an excuse. I decided not to drink at home, but I was too exhausted today and needed something(alcohole?) to make me relax.

Let me make sure something. I bought only 3 cans of beer. Because I didn't want to get drunk and didn't want to keep some for tomorrow or the other days. I hope tomorrow will be an easy day. And I want team Japan to win tomorrow!

Jun. 27

7:40am Breakfast : pao de queijo, a cup of coffee

1:30pm Lunch : Chicken sandwich, 2 cups of coffee

4:30pm a glass of red wine

5:30pm Dinner : Chicken soup, Gomoku Mame(cooked soy beans and vegetables)

7:00pm 2 cups of caramel tea

Dinner

I made chicken broth from chicken bone, which was from a grilled chicken I had yesterday. Usually, J is in charge of this soup, but I don't have him now. I made it different from J's. My soup is more like an Asian style. I added ginger, garlic chive and wakame(seeweed). I think it was as good as J's soup.

Jun. 26

8:00am Breakfast : a cup of soy milk, 2 buns(whole wheat, black olive), scrambled egg, a glass of orange juice

11:40am Lunch : Grilled chicken, bread

6:30pm Dinner : Tomato and Onion Curry with rice

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

I was going to eat out for lunch, but I bought a whole grilled chicken and brought it back home. Because I wanted to watch a soccer game on TV. I didn't care about soccer at all before moving to Brazil. But now, I enjoy the game to watch.

Jun . 25

6:00am 2 cups of coffee

9:00am Breakfast : cafe com leite(cafe au leit), coxinha

12:00pm Lunch : Bib'sfiha de Carne x 3

4:30pm Bib'sfiha x 2(is it dinner?)

7:30pm 2 glasses of caipiroska at Outback steak house (Happy hour rocks!)

9:30pm a half bottle of red wine, cheese, pao de queijo

Breakfast at office

Bib'sfiha

We had a game of Brazil at lunch time break. Our president ordered food to Habib's, which is Arabic fast food. The game was not great, but it was fun to watch the soccer game with people.

Jun. 24

5:40am Breakfast : Buta no Syogayaki Don(grilled pork and ginger on rince in the bowl), 2 cups of coffee
12:00pm Lunch : Buta no Syogayaki, Onion, rice and umeboshi(pickled plum)
7:00pm Dinner : Japanese food at Issa, beer, shochu

Breakfast


Bento Box

I wantead to take pictures of dinner, but I couldn't because it was a kind of business dinner. The restaurant had really good Japanese cuisine in foregn coutry. Actually, the chef was a Japanese, I guess.

Jun. 23

5:45am Breakfast : Teriyaki fish Don(fish on rice in the bowl), 2 cups of coffee

9:00am crackers

12:00pm Lunch : Bento Box ; Teriyaki fish, Wakame to Ninjin no Ume-ae(boiled seaweeds and carrot), Bean rice, orange

8:30pm Dinner : Bean rice, Fukushin-zuke(pickled vegetable)

8:45pm a cup of tea

Breakfast

Bento Box

Dinner
I got Fukushin-zuke at work and it was really good with rice! I think I can eat a lot of rice with it. Fukushin-zuke is a kind of pickles and it is marinated with soy sauce, I guess.

I have tried to have less carbs. But now I am not sure if I can keep trying with the fukushin-zuke.