Today I took a cooking lesson instead of baking. We tried our hands at cooking Indian cuisine. We ended up making two kinds of curry (the one on the left is spinach based), along with samosas, turmeric rice, a fresh salad with zucchini, chick peas, etc., and a mango sorbet as dessert.
Everything was delicious, but the Japanese seem to have a surprisingly different view of what’s spicy, as this is not the first time that I’ve witnessed fellow students being unable to finish their meal because it was “too spicy”.
A bit on the Christmas-y side, but this cake was both delicious and quite easy to make. It’s also highly versatile allowing for all kinds of possible combinations of flavors and decorations. The center is a white chocolate mousse with three raspberry flavored mini-roll cakes inside. The outer layer is a raspberry puree stiffened with some gelatin, decorated with more white chocolate and fruit.
Today we learned how to make these really nice cakes filled with a caramel mousse and flavored with coffee and cocoa. The bottom part is a light cake line-decorated with chocolate.
It’s June and the hydrangeas, or ajisai, are blooming in beautiful shades of blue, yellow and even purple! These are some blossoms I just happened to come across on my way home from work (it was a nice day so I decided to walk).
Today we tried to make daifuku mochi. It’s a lot harder than I expected, mainly because the mochi part is so sticky and rips easily. The spotted ones have beans in them and the green ones are yomogi (Japanese mugwort) flavored, which sounds less appetizing, but it’s surprisingly tasty.