Food at Sanrio Puroland !

Hi, everyone ! Now, I'm very nervous because tomorrow is my presentation day x(
So I will update my blog as a rest.

Last Friday, I went to Sanrio Puroland with my high school friends ♥
It is located to Tama in Tokyo.
It takes about 2 hour from Tsudanuma, but I really enjoyed !!

←This is the entrance of Puroland ;)







Have you ever been to there?
It was my first time.
Today I will show you 2 foods in Sanrio Puroland.

First one is lunch box !

 


How's cute (*>ω<)
I think most of foods in these lunch box are frozen food. haha
You can buy it ￥1,000~1,100.
The good point is we can bring luchbox at home after eating.
I saw many children chose lunchbox and they smiling happily.

Next is sweets!

 


Picture Left: Cinnamon Roll cake
Picture Right: Baked doughnut (Hello Kitty shape♪)
Actually I only eat doughnuts.
You can select flavor like chocolate, strawberry, walnuts&maple syrop, Apple & cinnamon.
These sweets are very popular and the shop closed earlier than other restaurant, so I reccomend go earlier time.

Souvenir is also unique and very cute.
If you have a interest, puroland is good to spend time because all of facilities are indoor.
Have fun ;) !

☆Shaved Ice

Good evening :-)♥
Today is sooo hot ! and I have to do many assignments...I can't wait summer holiday!
By the way, I posted ice cream blog 2 weeks ago.
This time I will introduce the history of shaved ice.

Shaved ice is famous as summer sweets in Japan.
In the world, it is also called "snow cone".

 When it is started??
 The answer is... Heian Period!
Sei shonagon describes how they eat it in her book "The Pillow Book".

She eat shaved ice with "Amazura" (sweetening made with Kudzu sause ) or suger and honey.
At that time, ice is very expensive and import from overseas.


In 1869, businessman produced natural ice in Japan and opened his    shop. Shaved ice is known to people since them.

Ice shaving machine is developed in 1887 by ice trader.

The price of shaved ice is about 80 yen per one cup. Cheap!! (^^)
According to the website of HAJIMETE History, it is very popular and people wait two hours!

♪The useful tool of lunchbox

Good afternoon, everyone ;)☆
As you know... today is the day of Star festival !

We have no certain eating habits related to this event, but there are a lot of menus to celebrate the festival.

For example, put sliced carrots or baked eggs which is hollowed star shape on thin wheat noodles (somen).

By the way, today's topic is "The useful tool of lunchbox" !

Have you ever cooked character lunch box??

I really interested to cooking it and I want to make for my child someday♪

Now I will introduce some tools!

First one is laver cutter. ￥1,480~ ( but you will find them at 100 yen shop too.)

If you want to make faces with laver, cutting takes time and it is bother.

But this cutter is very simple and just push the botton.

Of course, arrange is free and various.

Star, heart, and music note type is also on a sale.

Next is "doubutsu-makimaki" ￥980

This goods is soooo cute, isn't it?

Straw bag shaped rice ball is slender than usual one and easy to stuff the rest of lunch box.

And how to use the tools?

1) put in rices with pink spoon.

2)roll the lavers on the rice balls.

3) hollow ham, cheese, and any foods using the plate.

4) roll the rice ball again from upside.

Decorating ketchup as a cheek is also cute!

Last one is sausage cutter. ￥283~

You can arrange sausages for octopus, crabs, dandelions, and sunflowers.

Kitchen knifle is needless if you use this tool.









All 3 tools I introduced is safe even children use it.
Cooking together is become good experience for them and perhaps it is the prompt to stop unbalanced diet.
Like this, the goods of lunch box is improved and change more convenient.
Why don't you try it ?? :)

Almond Jelly Icecream

Hello :) !
Today I will introduce 2 ice cream which is flavored almond jelly.
Almond Jelly is known as annnindofu in Japan.
"Annin" means the inside of apricot seed.
The color of this part is white, so it is used for making almond jelly.
By the way, have you tried this famous dessert as a flavor of ice cream?

First is haagen-dazs !

It is include the liquer(a sweet liquid to make alcohol drink) of apricot seed.
I think alcohol taste is not so strong, and creamy^^

The calories is about 300, haagen-dazs is little expensive for us, but please try it ♥

Next is 31 ice cream !!!

The taste is very flesh and yummy ;)

Can you see the orange color part?

It is pinapple pulp and mango sause.

Calory is depend on the size, for example, regular size is about 200 calories.

I think these ice cream suit for summer !

Which flavor do you want eat it??

June 23rd ♪Recipe Book

Hello, everyone !
It's hot today, so I want to eat shaved ice~~~~ (;_;)
Have you tried the shaved ice in building 7?
Put caramel ice cream on shaved ice(+￥100) is delicous♥

By the way, I will introduce my favorite recipe book.

The title is "the textbook for cook your own meal".

This book is written for people who live in themselves.

So ingredients and quantity is indicated for them.

When I moved from my hometown, I have no experience to cook meals.

The book cover is not cute and simple, but it teach me a lot of important information!

For example,

Part 1: basic tool for cooking

     ・convenient goods

     ・seasonings

Part 2:basic materials

    ・the important point to shopping

    ・how to choose meat, vegetables, fish and shellfish.

Part 3:The basic of cooking

   ・how to cut ingredients

   ・useful way of microwave

Part 4: Recipes

I surprised that there are so many recipes in this book!

Because the size of book is not so big.
They introduce popular home cooking like nikujaga, hambarg, and so on.
In addition, the healthy dish helps me when I catch a cold.
The other recipes are how to make sauses which can preserve and arrange.

If you have a confidence to cooking, this book is needless for you.
But for beginner, I reccommend!
Thank you ^^

Restraurant Review♫Silvanian Families restaurant

Good evening ! ；）
This time I will introduce very cute restaurant♥
Have you played with the animal dolls Silvanian Families ?
When I was a child, I had many dolls and goods like Red roof house.

In Japan, there are 3 Silvanian Families restaurants. (Saitama Lake Town, Nagareyama, and TOKYO-BAY lalaport) I went to this restaurant in lala-port many times.     

The picture is entrance of the restaurant.
Last september, I went there with my club friends to celebrate member's birthday!
display is decorated for halloween and anytime you can also see other toys and dolls in the shop beside the restaurant.

Basicly, the eating style is buffet. hamburg, gratin, and so on.
I recommend you to go to weekday dinner time.
Because you can enjoy main dish and salad, soup, drink, and dessert buffet!
The time is 2 hours, and price are depend on main dish. (￥1,780~2,180)

Of couse these cute pancake and ice cream are free to take!

We also enjoyed making cotton candy :)

And...greeting with Silvanian Families is main event of this restaurant.

Stuffed costume character will come to each table and dance and sing together!

They are very cute and makes me happy(^^)♫

←Her name is "chocolat rabiit".

Other characters are ... "Silk cat","cotton rabbit", and so on.

I think maybe this restaurant is for chidren and family.

But adults, especially women can enjoy eating there！

If you have a interest, please check the homepage☆

http://sylvanian-families.jp/store/kitchen/tokyobay/

Have a good holiday ;)

NEW PRODUCTS ♫ Mister Donut

Hi (^^) !  The rainy season is started, maybe it makes me sleepy...

But playing sports and eat delicious sweets is very fun :)

Last week, I went to "Round 1" in Saitama with sophomore class members.

We enjoyed tennis, basketball, and some sports and games.

Ok, let's move on main topic !

Today I will introduce new products of Mister Donut.

The name is "yaki-do". It means  baked daughnuts.

When we make daughnuts, deep-fried is usual way.

This picture is all line-up of "yaki-do".

 Flavors are...

1 Apple and caramel sause

2 Milk raised

3 Sweet potato and Spinach

4 Pumpkin

5 Chocolate chip and Burdock

6 Strawberry and Crunberry

7 Orange peel

8 Cinnamon and Chocolate

I suprised because there are vegetable flavors!

They used vegetable powder and colored daughnuts.

I tried 1&4, it was very soft and sweet ♪

Taste is similar to cake or madeleine/financier.

Fruits flavor is more sweeter than other daughnuts.

Price:￥147~157

In addition, Mister donut sells "cool-yakido" at only 20 shops in Japan.

 

It uses bean paste include vegetables.

For example, tomato, carrot, and so on.

You can get these daughnuts at Shin-Urayasu shop.

I think "yaki-do" will become popular!

Because it is unusual but tasty sweetes ;)

Thank you ♥

May 26th ♪Sweet potato

Hello everyone:)!

How was today's test ? It was difficult for me ~~><

You must be tired so take sweets and take a break!

What is your favorite sweets...?

I love sweet potato very much !

It is simple sweets, but delicious thing.

Today, I will introduce the recipe of sweet potato and recommend shop.

First is the recipe ♪

This is the picture of my sweet potato.

I didn't have the mold of heart shape at that time.

So using my hands, sorry !

I presented this to senior of jazz club on the day of farewell live performance.

☆Ingredients

・sweet potato 300~400g

・butter 30g
・sugar 60g

・rum 1 tea spoon

・yolk (1 egg)

☆Recipe

１- peel the skin of sweet potatoes and cut into 1cm.

2- put them into a bowl and add water.

3-wrap the bowl and warm 3 minutes.

Usually, sweet potatoes are still hard, but using the kit of steamed vegetables is convenient.

I bought this box for 1,000 yen at variety store.

Silicon steamer is also open to utilization in various ways, so I recommend to you !

4-crush sweet potatoes by masher.

5-Put in sugar, butter, and rum into the bowl.

(vanilla flavoring is also OK)

6-Mix them until texture become smooth.

7-Cut or make shape as you like!

8-paint yolk on it and bake for 20~25 minutes at 180 degrees.

Next, I suggest one sweet potato shop, "Matsuzo Potato".

There are many shops in Japan and Nishi-Funabashi station is the nearest from Makuhari.

Price are 150~300 yen.

The lineup of product is widely, for example, most popular one use the skin of sweet potato as a plate of sweets.

Enjoy eating ;)

May 19th ♪ Cooking Toy

Hello ! Today's topic is..."Cooking Toy".

Have you tried it when you were a child ?

It is different from play house, you can make sweets and something to eat really.

In addition, kitchen knife and fire is needless or procedure is simple.

Therefore cooking toys are popular for children and adults now.

I'd like to introduce some of these toys !

First one is "Roll Cake Pallet" by Mega Toys Inc.

This is the kit of roll cake. You can make 2 cakes (about 5~9 cm) for an hour.

And attractive points of this cooking toy is...

♪There are cute shape cutter. (heart, star , flower, ribbon)

♪You can put message by using pastry bag.

I want to buy it :) !

Next is "Kururin Ice Cream " released by Sega Toys.　￥4,500~

You can make your own ice cream in your house !

It takes 3 hours to cool the pot before. But after that, mixing ingredients for 10 minutes,

ice cream is completed.

It seems very fun!

If you have a interest, please check this movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1D4TNYb8Po&feature=youtube_gdata_player

There are a lot of cooking toys in Japan.

For example, soba/Sushi roll (Hutomaki)/Mochi maker.

I think cooking toy is not just for children, every people can enjoy it.

It is communication tool for family and friends, also tool for tell food cultures.

Thank you ;)

May 11th ♪ Bear-shaped bread

Hi everyone ! It's rainy today... please be careful to catch a cold :(

Last month, I went back to my hometown, Kimitsu in Chiba.
I stayed for 2 days and enjoyed playing the piano, talking with my family, etc.
And my mother cooked delicious food for me, so I was happy.

But, have you ever seen this bread ??





Bear-shape !

I was surprised, and this bread is homemade.
Now I will introduce ingredients.

♪Ingredients
・Strong flour 200g
・one table spoon of skimmed milk
・one table and half spoon of Sugar
・one teaspoon of dried yeast
・Water ( 40℃) 135g
・Salt-free butter 15g

It takes about 1 hour to make bread.
If you have household oven, please try it :)
More Recipe...http://http//cookpad.com/recipe/1056737

You can also arrange the taste of bear-shaped bread.
For example, my mother uses walnuts and raisin.
I think put powdered green tea and coffee in is fun !
Enjoy decorating ^^

By the way, which seasoning do you like on simple bread??
My favorite is strawberry jam ♪
Thank you for your reading ;)

April 28th ♪ Short Cake

Good morning !


Today I will introduce about "Short cake".
Ingredients are strawberries, whipped cream, sponge cake, and so on.




In Japan, we eat this cake for someone's birthday or christmas.
Of course as a refreshment.







Now, do you know the birthplace of the short cakes?

The answer is Japan !!

In 1543, the ships of Portugueses arrived at Tanegashima Island in Kagoshima.
After that, Fujiya company improve sponge cake ( Kasutera) more softer.


It's the prompt of making short cakes.




By the way, "Fraisier" is famous in France.













This cake used butter cream or custard cream instead of whipped cream.
In addition, heavy sugar sweets called "marzipan" on the top of the cake.

It's contrastive to Japanese short cake and the taste is very rich.



Why such a difference occured ?



I think it is originate from people's usual eating style.
Japanese often use sugar and sake for home cooking.
Therefore we want modest sweetness and light thing for dessert.

And french have kind of strong foods and drink totally because they live in more colder area than Japan. So sweets are heavy, too.

If you have a chance, please try many kinds of cakes :) !

Introduction

Hello,everyone ;) !

My name is Maiko Kumakiri. I'm senior student in KUIS.
I work at cake shop (Ginza Cozy Corner) and fastfood restaurant (Mcdonald's) .

The reason why I take this class is I'm interested in the food culture of the world.
And I want to know the background of custmor's choices.


I have an allergy of cacao, so I can't eat chocolate!
But I love to eat any other sweets, especially ice cream.
Nice to meet you !