Japanese Green Tea (Part 2-抹茶:Maccya-)

I woke up and found out that it was 12:00!
Well, sometimes this happens:)
It's weekend! We gotta relax!

Still, the topic is about Japanese green tea.
I'm gonna focus on Maccya today.

Maccya is used for many things like chocolate, cookie, ice cream, cake and so on.
Maccya taste is my all-time favorite!

Speaking of Maccya, "宇治(Uji)" comes to my mind.
Uji is a city in Kyoto prefecture. Its soil and weather was good for producing Maccya, and it was pretty close to Kyoto city where the center of tea ceremony. So, Uji has a long history producing Maccya. "Uji-Maccya" is known as a brand of good Maccya in Japan.
In schools in Uji, as part of the region education, flow from a faucet is tea!
It's amazing.

Then, how Maccya is produced?
It is grown up away from sunlight. Pick shoots, steam them and dry them. Remove the vein, and ground to powder by millstone.

I think this tea talk continues a little more.



When I was looking through my old pictures, I came across this one.
This was 2005, when I visited NY library.
Amazing place!
I'm going to visit here again someday!


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Japanese Green Tea (Part 1)

Today, I chatted about Japanese green tea while at work.
One of my co-workers is from Shizuoka prefecture which is a major production area of Japanese green tea.

A good Japanese green tea is really delicious, and I love it!
In our conversation, he told me that he could not drink other tea like we buy at a convenience store. Since his grandfather has a tea farm, he was grown up drinking delicious tea.

I sort of understand what he says. It obviously tastes different when you drink bottled tea. Once people get used to good stuff, it's really hard to degrade.

Anyway, our conversation reminded me that there are so many kinds of Japanese green tea that we have here.

Japanese green tea is classified into many kinds by cultivation method, plucking timing and production process.
Here are some popular teas:
抹茶(Maccya)
煎茶(Sencya)
玉露(Gyokuro)
ほうじ茶(Houjicya)
玄米茶(Genmaicya)


I'll talk about more next time.



Japanese green tea farm!

お好み焼き(Okonomiyaki-sour cream sanded-)

Requested by "ProgramMax", I made Okonomiyaki with sour cream sanded.

[Recipe]
For 2 people:
*150g of flour
*1/2 small spoon of salt
*2 big spoon of sugar
1/6 of cabbage
100g of sliced pork back ribs
150cc of bonito and seaweed broth
Proper amount of dried bonito (shavings) and green laver
Proper amount of smoked cheese and sour cream


Sauce;
Worcester sauce:Ketchup=3:2


1. Mince cabbage. Cut sliced pork back ribs and smoked cheese into proper size. Mix *marked ingredients.

2. Put mixed *ingredients and broth in a bowl, and mix them. Add cabbage and pork in a bowl and mix them. In a small bowl, put smoked cheese and sour cream, and mix them. In the other small bowl, put worcester sauce and ketchup, and mix them.

3. Heat a pan, and put oil. Pour the dough in a pan and cook until brown. Flip over, put a lid and cook the other side until brown. (make 4 piece)

4. Sand mixed cheese and put sauce on the top. Spread dried bonito (shavings) and green laver.


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My favorite cake shop!

I visited my favorite cake shop on the weekend.
Unfortunately, they do not have a home page.

L'ATELIER DE T
0532-47-5755
Vertecourt minami sakae 1F west, Minamisakae-cyo karaike 67-3, Toyohashi city, Aichi 441-8107

Grand patisserie is so nice and he makes delicious cake!


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Jijim

It's really cold outside!
The place where I live now, it rarely snows, but it snowed this morning!


[Recipe]

Ingredients for 1~2 people;

Dough
100g of seafood mix
1/2 bunch of chivee
50g of flour
1 egg
1 potato
1 small spoon of instant bouillon
50ml of water
A little bit of sesame oil, salt and pepper
1 big spoons of sesame oil

Sauce
50ml of soy sauce
1 small spoons of sugar
1 piece of grated garlic
2 big spoons of roasted sesame
1 big spoons of red pepper
4 big spoons of shredded long green onion
A little big of sesame oil


1. Thaw seafood mix. Put ingredients of the sauce and mix them.

2. Cut chivee into proper size. Put ingredients of the dough in a bowl and mix them.

3. Heat a pan and put 1 big spoon of sesame oil. Put dough in a pan and cook at high heat for a while.

4. Turn upside down and cook thoroughly at a medium heat.


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あったかスープ(warming soup)

I had a really busy week, so I'm having a slow weekend.


[Recipe]

Ingredients for 4 people;

1 canned crab
1/8 of Chinese cabbage
1/2 of carrot
1/4 bunch of cryptotaenia
1/2 bunch of enokidake mushroom
200cc of crab soup stock
600cc of water

1. Cut Chinese cabbage, carrot, cryptotaenia and enokidake mushroom into proper size. Put water in a pot and heat it.

2. When the water boils, put Chinese cabbage and carrot. Skim the scum and put canned crab, enokidake mushroom and crab soup stock. Simmer the soup in medium heat for a while.

3. Stop the fire and put cryptotaenia in a pot.


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Yukhoe (Japanese tuna-style)

[Recipe]

Ingredients for 2 people:

100g of tuna
*2 big spoons of soy sauce
*2 big spoons of Mirin
*1 big spoons of sesame oil
*1/2 piece of grated garlic
*1/2-inch piece of grated ginger
*1/2 small spoons of sweet bean sauce(甜麺醤) and Gochujang(苦椒醤)
*2 small spoons of ground sesame seeds
*A little bit of powdered hot pepper
1 egg yolk(if you want)
A little bit of shredded long green onion


1. Mix *marked ingredients.

2. Cut tuna into proper size and mix with the sauce that you made in #1.

3. Put #2 on a dish, and spread shredded long green onion. (Put egg yolk if you want.)


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Maple Banana Muffin

A happy new year!!

I made Maple Banana Muffin for my friend the other day!


[Recipe]

Ingredients for 4 muffins:

50g of margarine
80g of flour
3g of baking powder
30g of millet sugar
1 egg (middle size)
10g of milk
90g of banana
A little bit of lemon juice
30g of maple syrup

1.Let egg, margarine and milk warm at room temperature. Shift flour and baking powder.

2. Put banana in a bowl and mash it with a fork. Add lemon juice and maple syrup in the bowl.

3. Beat margarine with sugar in a bowl until cream. Break and beat an egg. Add egg in the bowl in 3 parts and mix the ingredients.

4. Put ingredients and mix them as the following order; 1/3 of powder, 1/2 of milk, 1/3 of powder, 1/2 of milk, banana that you prepared at #2, 1/3 of powder.

5. Put the dough into muffin cups. Heat the oven at 180℃. Bake them for 25 minutes in the oven.


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