Cup cake

Today, we are having cupcake for afternoon tea in my office. We need our sugar level up for a busy day!

Sometime...Full English breakfast

Proper full English breakfast at Albion. Maybe I only have full English breakfast once or twice a year because so heavy... but it is nice to have it sometime.

Best Kebab in London

I haven't eat Kebab long long time but this Lebanese restaurant Maroush(www.maroush.com) changed my Kebab appetite. Their Shawarma is very authentic and also fruit cocktail juice is fresh and nice together with kebab.

Sat breakfast

Slow breakfast on weekend is one of a way to maintain my body and soul.

Fran

Souvenir from Japan. New taste for Fran. Slightly salty milk chocolate.

Spanish feast

A brought back load of ham and cheese from Spain!

5 different hams and three cheese.

I made roast paper salad. Paper from organic farm in Essex, very sweet and tasteful.

Fresh artichoke salad

Main dish; Chicken, shallot, courgettes, tomato sauce.

M brought ginger biscuit

Desert; S's cocoa banana cake with Greek yogurt and honey.

Japanese feast

2weeks later after new princess born, I went to see them again.

Before going to Essex, I went to buy some Japanese ingredients and I had a Sushi lunch in my favorite sushi restaurant in London; Sushi Hiro. It was a treat myself from having very busy week.

In my Essex family house I made dumplings. To make pancake for dumpling is actually simple and fun!

Normally, this is difficult point; to make pancake thin but this time P helped me with pasta machine that's works very well.

More and more pancake!

Homemade dumplings for my Essex family.

Next day's lunch with S and S's mum; Sanuki Udon noodle and Chinese cabbage pickles.

Birthday cake for S

Ingredients for cake ???

This is a birthday cake for Spike.

Born? Yes, because he loves it.

We celebrate with meaty stick instead of candles

Birthday boy finished rest of cake next day.

Steak at Buen Ayre

I knew the place long time because it located just the other side of park from my flat but somehow I never been here before; Buen Ayre. I got so many good reviews about this place so it is very exciting! Dinner start with Fianca Flichman, Shiraz 2006

Bread comes with home made blue cheese butter.

Beef carpaccio, must order dish!

Grilled provolone cheese

14oz grilled prime Argentine Sirloin steak with garnish.

Bottega Prelibato

Bottega Prelibato is Italian Deli&restaurant just behind old street.

It is a casual restaurant but food is very properly made.

They do serve fresh pasta which is very authentic.

Princess day

I couldn't update while because I was extremely busy and had a very big event in my life. Third of March; the day of princess day in Japan, we were expected to have a new birth in our family. Our family means my dear extended family. It was a beautiful day; spring seems just around the corner.

I went to see them with rice balls because I wanted my best friend feels home and relax. When we were extreme moment, we need to eat basic comfortable food that is rice ball for us Japanese.

My niece; she became older sister were waited new baby come to the family in relax atmsphere with princess sweet from Japan.

P made dinner; Vegetable lasagna

It was very delicious and not too heavy.

The new princess in our family. What a beautiful little thing!

Kinkan

It is always exciting to received some food gift. It could be a introduction for new food sometime for me. This called Kinkan is kind of orange group but smaller and specially this one is sweeter, even skin. My idea of Kinkan changed completely with this one from Arita. Thank you H.