Phantom Mustard Pork

Why phantom? Because of the ingredients. I use leftover beer to make this. It is RARE for J and me not to finish beer. If it shall happen, we might be sick or get drunk and fall asleep before drinking up. So, I don't know when I have a chance to make it next time. To remember, I will keep the recipe.

Ingredients : serve 1 - 2

pork - slice in 1 cm

1/2 onion - slice against fiber

1 tbs mustard

beer - 200cc

a little salt

Preparation :

1. Stirfry pork and onion with salt

2. Add beer and mustard

3. Stew for 10 minutes

Note : I used ham this time. Chicken or beef can work for this recipe.

Ping Pong

I want to eat different kinds of food at same time. Dim dum is perfect for me, but I don't see many dim sum restaurants in Sao Paulo. Ping Pong is the only dim sum restaurant I know so far. It has a good atmosphere. I had a glass of champagne and it was good. But I am not sure about a glass of red wine. It was cold just like a glass of white wine.

Champagne & red wine

Kitchen (food is steamed!)

Chicken and coconut wonton soup

Spring rolls

Dumplings
more dumplings

Ice cream and puff cake
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Ping Pong

Rua Lopes Neto, 15

Sep. 11

8:00am Breakfast : Dashimaki(Japanese omlet), okra & ume(pickled plum), miso-soup, rice

1:00pm Lunch : mustard pork, cabbage & tomato stirfry, rice

7:00pm Dinner : dim sum, a glass of champagne, a glass of white wine at Ping Pong

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner
I was very hungry for Japanese style breakfast when I woke up. I guess that's because I had not cooked and eaten my cooking this week?

J and I went to dim sum restaurant, PING PONG for dinner. I went there before with a friend and I wanted J to try it, too. I found that we had restaurant week right now when we got to the restaurant. Restaurant week is a kind of promotion event for restaurants and they have a special menu for lunch and dinner with same price at all restaurants. Lunch is R$29 and dinner is R$39. More than 200 restaurants join this event this time and it holds twice in a year in Sao Paulo. It is good deal to try new restaurants.

! I just googled it. Do we have it in the U.S. too? I didn't need to explain. Ooops, I don't have it in Japan. I wish we had it in Japan too.

Sep. 10

6:00am Breakfast : ramen!!, a glass of smoothie, a cup of coffee

12:00pm unch : Hamburger, bun, strawberry tarte

8:45pm Dinner : "ONE" piece of pizza and beer!

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

When I woke up, I found that I was hungry. Actually, I had been hungry since last night. That's why I picked ramen for breakfast. I usually have lunch at noon and my stomach already started making noise at 11am. Then I got a hamburger for lunch. When I got home, sweet J left pizza for me. What a junk food day, today! Oh, I have to confess another thing. I had a small strawberry tart for a desert after lunch. The excuse is "yesterday" was my co-worker's birthday.

Sep. 9

6:15am Breakfast : papaya, a glass of smoothie

12:15pm Lunch : ham & cheese sandwich, caramel donut

8:30pm Dinner : cheese & cracker

Papaya

Lunch

Dinner

The caramel donut was too sweet to eat up. I have not had Japanese food this week. That means I didn't cook. Tomorrow is Friday........... ok, I will cook next week.

Sep. 7

6:40am Breakfast : atemoya

2:00pm Lunch : sushi, sashimi, fried squid at party on business

6:30pm Dinner? : grape tomatoes

Breakfast : atemoya

Lunch : grilled shrimp
grilled pork and salmon
sushi, sashimi and food!!!!

My dinner was only a few grape tomatoes. Was I sick? Hell no. See what I ate for lunch. I didn't get hungry at dinner time.

Sep. 6

6:30am Breakfast : Sardine Donburi(sardine on rice in the bowl), a glass of orange juice

12:15pm Lunch : Bento Box ; Iwashi Amazu-an, Nira-tama, califlower, rice

7:40pm Dinner : green pepper, chicken, some vegetables

Breakfast

Bento Box

Dinner

Banana & walnuts cocoa cake

It is rare for me to bake a cake. I don't have a sweet tooth and am not good at making sweets. I think it is more difficult to make sweets than cooking. For cooking, I can taste sometimes and add more ingredients. But for sweets, I have to measure the exact ingredients, or the sponge of cake wouldn't be puffy sometimes.

Ingredients : I use 20 x 10cm heat resistant glass case to bake
1 egg - whisk well
100cc flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tbs cocoa powder (I use nestle for chocolate drink)
50cc sugar
3 tbs butter - melt it in the microwave

1 banana - slice

some walnuts

Preparation :
1. Pre-heat oven 180C
2. Spread oil in the case and sprinkle walnuts
3. Mix flour, baking powder, cocoa powder and sugar in the bowl
4. Add egg into #2 and whisk well
5. Add butter into #3 and wisk well
6. Pour #4 into the case and put sliced banana
7. Put the case in the oven and bake for 20 - 30 minutes
8. Pierce a stick on the cake and if anything don't come out on the stick, it is done.

Note : It shows "cc" to measure because I don't have a scale.

Sep. 5

7:30am Breakfast : macaroni & cheese, fried egg, a glass of soy milk
1:00pm Lunch : grilled chicken

4:00pm banana & walnuts cocoa cake

6:00pm Dinner : Iwashi Amazu-an(sardine with sweet & sour sauce), Nira-tama(nira and egg), califlower, cabbage soup, beer

Breakfast

Lunch (the picture is slightly blurred!)

Cake

Dinner

I must have been very hungry at lunch time. The camera tells how I felt. "As soon as taking a picture, I put the camera down and eat!"

It rained and I was bored. So I baked a cake. It looked like I ate too much, but I ran a lot. My body is sore!

Sep. 4

7:15am Breakfast : bread, scrambled egg

12:30pm Lunch : Sushi! at sushi gen

7:00pm Dinner : chicken, beef & onion stirfry, califlower, carrot, cheese & crackers, white wine, beer

Breakfast

Dinner

Sep. 3

6:10am Breakfasat : cereal & banana with soy milk

12:00pm Lunch : beef & tomato stirfry, rice noodle, eggplant, rice at Lucky, Chinese restaurant

8:30pm Dinner : pizza

Breakfast

Dinner

I went to a chinese restaurant for lunch with co-workers. It was cheap and good. I'll take some pictures of the food when I go there next time.

Sep. 2

6:10am Breakfast : Kale miso-soup, rice with califlower leaves flakes, a glass of smoothie

12:00pm Lunch : Bento Box ; Sukiyaki donburi

7:30pm Dinner : Kale miso-soup, red cabbage

Breakfast

Bento Box

Dinner

Sep. 1

6:15am Breakfast : banana, 2 cups of coffee

12:00pm Lunch : Bento Box ; sardine, nappa letuce, califlower, rice with califlower's leave flakes

7:00pm Dinner : hummus, falafel, pita bread at Almanara

Bento Box

Aug. 31

8:30am Breakfast : banana, a cup of coffee

12:30pm Lunch : vegetable soup, a cup of coffee

6:45pm Dinner : sardine, nappa letuce, califlower, miso-soup, rice, califlower leaves flakes

7:15pm a cup of milk tea

Lunch

Dinner

Aug. 30

6:00am Breakfast : a glass of soy milk, a cup of coffee

12:00pm Lunch : grilled pork, feijao(beans stew), kale, rice, salad at lanchonete(diner)

7:30pm Dinner : sake no nanban-zuke(marinated fried salmon), kale soup

9:000pm a cup of mango tea

Dinner

Aug. 29

?am Breakfast : ramen, 2 cups of coffee, a glass of soy milk

12:00pm Lunch : cheese croissant, chicken sandwich, caju juice at casa blanca

5:00pm-6:00pm a glass of white wine, a glass of red wine while I cook

6:30pm Dinner : vegetable and chicken fritters, tomato & onion salad, nappa letuce & tuna salad, beer

8:00pm-9:30pm 3 cans of beer

Breakfast

Dinner

I got cauliflower yesterday. I was hungry for fried cauliflower. I missed breaded fried cauliflower my mom made. To be honest, it's not only cauliflower. I am missing all my mom's cooking.

Anyway, I decided to cook cauliflower but I didn't have panco (chunk of bread). So I made fritter. It was good with lime juice and salt. Simple and good for beer!

Kintaro

This pub is popular among Japanese business men and it is busy on a week day. The food on the tray was lined up on the bar counter and you point to them to order.

I had eggplant, pickled fish, marinaded fried fish and Oden. We had 3 bottles of beer and the total cost R$49. This pub had beer, Serramalte, which was good. I like it the best in Brazil so far.

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Kintaro

Rua Tomas Gonzaga 57, Liberdade

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?