ホームパーティ用にあらかじめ用意しておき、直ぐにお出しできるワインの当てにピッタリのおもてなし料理を紹介します。今回はとっても簡単な「若鶏のテリーヌ」。鶏ゆえにさっぱりとしており、シャンパンや白ワインなどにとても合います...
...平野邸にて今話題のサントリーオールフリーのCM鍋「細切りキャベツの豚シャキ鍋」で晩餐会
日曜日の午後に平野邸にお邪魔し、お茶をいただきながら歓談していると「今夜は鍋がいいなぁ♪」と平野さんが口にされ、淳子さんが「何鍋にしようかしら?」と悩んでいると、偶然にも淳子さんとわたしの頭に浮かんだ鍋が一致し、急遽その...
...新規オープン!ぬくもりの森の姉妹店イタリア創作料理「ぬくもりイタリアン KINOKO」のランチ
きのこのような形をしたメルヘンチックな建物が完成してからしばらくの間眠りについていましたが、昨年2013年12月12日にようやくぬくもり工房さんが手掛けるぬくもりの森の姉妹店としてイタリア創作料理のレストラン「ぬくもりイ...
...Views of the Grand Canal from the marble Rialto Bridge and how to ride a gondola
The Rialto Bridge, also known as the "White Giant," is one of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal in Venice, a port city on the Adriatic Sea in northern Italy. Located north of St. Mark's Square, it was originally made of wood...
...鹿児島の竹の町「さつま町の早掘りタケノコ」は香り高く歯応え抜群!
鹿児島は日本一のタケノコの産地。竹林面積も日本一で、大名竹、古参竹、唐竹、孟宗竹、それに緑竹、真竹、四角竹など種類も豊富です。 その豊富な種類から、鹿児島は1年中さまざまなタケノコを味わうことができます。早掘りタケノコは...
...Let's eat nanakusa-gayu (seven-herb rice porridge) with the hope that we will live a healthy and peaceful year.
January 7th marks the end of the New Year's holidays, and many people are likely returning to work. After a leisurely holiday, they're probably back to their hectic daily routines. With the overindulgence and drinking that was unavoidable during the New Year's period, many people are likely feeling tired in their stomachs and bodies. So...
...Enjoy reasonably priced daily set meals at "Shokuinshitsu Hamasho"
Located along Yurino-ki Street, across the intersection from Viola Tamachi, diagonally to the southwest, is "Shokuinshitsu Hamasho," a restaurant with a traditional Japanese atmosphere, marked by a white noren (curtain). While its exterior might suggest a high-class Japanese restaurant, a check of the menu board outside reveals it's an izakaya (Japanese pub)...
...The Yoshida and Hirano families' "New Year's Party 2014" at the Yoshida Residence: Traditional performing arts presented by members of the Shoto-kai
The event took place at the home of Akira Yoshida, who served as president of Nichiei Yoshida (now taken over by Kiuchi Construction), a company that was nationally recognized in the exposed concrete industry and has provided tremendous support as a supporter of the web magazine lade...
...As is customary at the end of the year, I help out with making New Year's Eve soba noodles at my family's restaurant, "Shokujidokoro Mine," in Makinohara.
Along National Route 150 in Makinohara, at the corner of the Shizunami Coast entrance intersection, you'll find "Shokujidokoro Mine," a Japanese restaurant where you can enjoy handmade soba noodles, eel, and set meals, with a soba banner flying and an orange, hand-dyed noren curtain swaying in the breeze. Actually, this is my family's restaurant. My parents opened it when I was little...
...一級建築士「長谷守保建築計画」の長谷邸にて「餅つき会2013」からの忘年会
鹿谷のステーキハウス「あさくま」さんのあるカーブ手前に見える五角形の屋根が目印の木造一軒家、余分なものを削ぎ落としたデザインと風格ある佇まいの長谷邸。年の瀬押し迫る中、「いまどき餅もつけぬような男はいかん!」という長谷氏...
..."Aspiration" - the act of writing down one's thoughts.
今回は「志」というテーマにしたいと思います。 人は新しい年や新しいことが始まる時に、「今年こそは絶対~をするぞ!」「今度はこんなことに挑戦してみよう!」などと様々な志をたてます。きっと、皆さんもオープン後にこんなことやあ...
...A "goal" to write down what you think.
今回のテーマは「目標」にしてみようと思います。 みなさん、今年の初めに立てた目標は順調に達成できそうですか?1年の始まりになんとなくたてた目標も、年末までにはきっちり明確にしていく必要があるのではないでしょうか。1年は長...
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