Cooking Channels

Hi!

Today I want to Introduce my favorite cooking channels :)

When I find free time I usually turn on my computer and start watching cooking video's on Youtube. They are always so inspiring and looks very very attractive.

My favourite is "My Cupcake Addiction" & "The Domestic Geek"

If you have time you should definitely try making them!

I Love mac and cheese and this led me to find this channel!

I also love twix and my aunt and I were looking for something interesting to cook so we found this channel and we were so addicted to the channel instead lol

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Merry Christmas
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About the Book Pt2

Hi, I finally remembered to make a post about my book I'm reading.

As I mentioned way back at the beginning of my blog, I'm reading a book about

Why cooking is thought to be feminine? like as in mums job to cook etc.

The recent pages I've read it mentioned about juvenile cookbooks.

Now this, I remembered when I used to live in Australia and every Wednesday we were allowed to stay in the library for the whole lunch break. When we'd usually have to go out under the sun. I'd rush up to the line to get in the library with my best friend and when we got in I fast walked to the cookbook corner to find a new cookbook every time I visited. I often borrowed the books and asked mum for help and I tried making them. I also remember some of the juvenile cookbooks having girls recipe and boys recipe. Girls recipe was more complicated and more sweeter like: cupcakes, pies, hundreds and thousands sandwiches, chocolate mudcakes and more. On the other hands boys' were like: baked potato, pizza made from bread slice, grilled chicken and so on. I was kind of a tomboy back then and I hated following long orders so I usually made the boys recipe :P

Actually I still hate taking long orders so I cook menus with short instruction :)

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Throwback summer!!!
We Love Lunchtime!

Food for all and Second harvest Japan

Comparison of Food for all an Second harvest Japan.

What are their main activity/events?
They are similar in the way that they both work with food charity.
Food for all: Celebs for Camden, Food Bank and Eco Garden.
Second Harvest Japan: Harvest Kitchen, Harvest Pantry, Food Bank and Policy Proposal and Development.

How do they deal with the problem of food waste?
Second Harvest Japan & Food for all both have a project called Food Bank.
They collect canned food/fresh vegetable and fruits/emergency supplies/grains/frozen foods.
Then re-provide the goods to the people needing them.

How would you be able to help/volunteer for these organizations?
For Second Harvest Japan we can volunteer by donating food/time/money.
For Food for all we can volunteer by donating money or equipments such as mobile phone, clothing and so on.

Which group seems to be the most active?
I think that Second Harvest Japan is more active because the latest entry for their activity was done on the 19th Nov. which shows that their Website is on move.
On the other hand, Food for all's latest posting of event was made in 2012.
And I acutually met the founder of Second Harvest Japan early this year.
I was taking the Service Learning class and Mr.Mcjilton came to our class as a guest teacher. 
The way he spoked about his job sounded far more active than what I earned from just by looking at the website.
He acutually has spoken in TED Talks too just from my curiosity.





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Throwback illumination

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Pets and Foods

Hey!

Recently, I read a news article based on feeding pets the same food as what we eat.
"For Pets. It's Fat Thursday With Pies, Dressing Under the Table" written by Laura Meckler and Stephanie Armour.

I actually have an experience about feeding pets our food.
When I lived in Australia I had 7 rabbits as a pet.
They are herbivorous animals so they usually eats only grass but in my case my bunny's loved eating biscuits and Pocky(obviously chocolates are inappropriate so only the cookie part). I often ate it with them.
The problem is that biscuits usually contains eggs in making them.
So as you can assume my rabbits started to get chubby.
Also another problem occurred, they started to leave the rabbit food and then I started to take this seriously.
From then I stopped giving them snacks and so did my mother.
Still our bunny's were chubby at least they were healthier than being fed snacks. 

I felt this article was pointing out one of the serious points for owners to be aware of.


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I didn't do anything bad...

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Lunch episode...

Hello!

Yesterday I went a Asian restaurant with my friends!
I had Thai curry set and they were delicious!!!
It's close to Uni so I'll definitely go there again.

Also in class we were asked to take a quiz to see if we are a foodie.

I suppose I did well :)

Don't you think?

I actually knew the names but I had some that I just guessed.

I need to study more about food!!!

"berries"... This was most surprising quiz for me lol

If you have time you should try too!

here's the URL:Are you a real foodie? Take our quiz! - What is a prix fixe menu? - CSMonitor.com

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BEAT BEAT BEAT

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Lunch lunch :)

Hi! Long time no see...

Today, one of my class was off so I went to have lunch with my best friend!
Since we both are obsessed with chicken we went to a Japanese grilled chicken restaurant to eat the famous "Oyakodon" they had.
"Oyakodon" is a Japanese rice bowl dish consisting of chicken and eggs. The dish includes a sauce and relies mostly on hot rice to cook or set the eggs.
Espescially at this restaurant the chicken being roasted and grilled gives a nice burn and smell to the chicken and it was just too perfect.

Oyakodon -with Japanese pepper-

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Autumn that you can feel
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Cooking is Feminine or Masculine?

Hi there!

On my first post I wrote about a book I'm reading which is about Dinner roles saying why does cooking have a "Woman's job" image.

I was surfing on Youtube to find a video that was related to this theme.

It was quite difficult to find the absolutely related video so I tried looking for a video where Dads do the cooking.

This is the video I found.

Dad vs Daughter It's worth it!

I loved this video because this channel is a dad's guide for cooking. It is just a good start for cooking to be more masculine.

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The park all to our-self!

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Red Rock!!

Hey guys !

How have you been?

I've been pretty fine and last Saturday my mother and her friends came over to Tokyo.

My mother's friend and her daughter had to go and see a stage performance called TENCHU.

Mean while my mother and I went to eat lunch at "Red Rock" in Harajuku.

http://www.redrock-kobebeef.com/

You can eat Roast beef or Steak or Loco moco as a Donburi menu. Donburi is a bowl of rice with some topping in this case Roast beef etc.

This is one of the best place a meat lover can visit!!!

Seriously, it was perfect!

I chose Roast beef this time (I'm planning to visit again LOL) and it's just so Cheap! Fast! and Delicious! 

Maybe next time I'll have the steak because that looked very good too :)

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Flower

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Carrot Salad

Hi there!

Let me talk about what I've been doing recently.

On 16th of October my best friend had her 20th birthday!

And since we both became legal (My birthday was 7th July) I took her to dinner for her first legal drink.(yay!)

We went to a restaurant called "nino*nino" in Yokohama, Japan.

It's very close to the station and the restaurant is famous for "Cheese fondue".

My friend and I were looking forward to the cheese fondue but not only that but also the salads and desserts were also very tasty.

I actually loved the Carrot Salad and Edamame they served us more than anything.

They were absolutely beautiful!

There's another nino*nino in Shibuya as well so if you have an opportunity I recommend you have a visit :)  

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Squirrel

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Introduction!!!!!

Hi! My name is Rima and I'll be writing a food blog for a while.
First of all in my class, we're all reading a "Food" related book.
I'd like to introduce my book that I'm reading.

Dinner Roles: American Women and Culinary Culture

So this book is generally about why the preparation of food became something feminine.According to the book, in most American homes the cooking is considered to be mom's responsibility and not dad's. I think this is the same in Japan too well probably in any country cooking considered to be feminine.I like cooking myself and I have no problem for it being feminine however, a lot of chiefs tend to be male. I was curious about the history about this and this led me to read this book.

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Chinese　dumpling
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