EASY COOKING on JOURNEY

As marvelous local ingredients being available, why don't you try cooking on journey?

TIPS FOR COOKING

  1. Check "free food corner"before buying groceries
  2. Make a plan before purchasing and cooking
  3. Use local delights
  4. Save pans and dishes
  5. Bring a good kitchen knife
Enjoy cooking!

Find Oysters? - Oyster with Lemon

Oysters: find by yourself!
1 Lemon: Preferably, pick from the tree. Don't forget to ask the owner.
1/4cup Water
cooked oyster
  1. Pick rocks attached with oysters.
  2. Cook to boil the ROCKS with water in a large pan till the shells open.
  3. Shelled and squeeze lemon on oysters.
Simple is the best for oysters. Cooking oysters with rocks is the easiest way since it's hard to take oysters off from the rocks.

Find Mussels? Clams? - Steamed Mussel

Mussels or Clams: find by yourself!
1 Tablespoon Butter
Chopped Springonion
Chopped Garlic(option)
1/4 Cup White Wine(or water)
Pepper
  1. Melt butter in a pan
  2. Add garlic
  3. Add seashells and fry 20 seconds, then pour wine.
  4. Cook to the boil with lid till shells open.
  5. Sprinkle springonion and pepper.
This is good for pasta sauce as well. In that case, wine (or water) can be doubled.

Find Mushrooms? - Mushroom soup

Mushroom: find by yourself!
1 Tablespoon Butter plus extra amount for frying
1-2 Cup Milk or Cream
2 Teaspoon Flour
Salt and Pepper
Chopped Parsley (option)
Grated Cheese (option)
prepare mushroom
  1. Peel the surface of mushrooms and cut in pieces.
  2. Melt all butter in a pan and fry mushrooms. Chopped onion can be cooked together. Sprinkle salt.
  3. When mushrooms are cooked, turn down the heat, sprinkle flour and stir well. Then add milk and stir well again.
  4. If you like thick soup, add extra flour or corn flour mixed with water and stir well.
  5. Sprinkle pepper, parsley and cheese.
Mushroom goes well with milk and cream. This soup is good as a pasta sauce as well. Kiwis usually put off the stems and peel the surface of mushrooms probably because they come out from stock droppings.

Want Something different? - Avocado

If I find freshly picked avocados on sale, I definitely buy one. It makes different.
1 Ripe Avocado: a half per person is enough so share with someone
lemon juice
Salt for Mexican taste/ Japanese Say sauce for Japanese taste
Pepper sauce for Mexican taste/ Wasabi (Japanese horse radish) for Japanese taste: option
how to prepare avocado
  1. Cut avocado lengthwise along stone.
  2. Twist avocado to stone from one side.
  3. Stone from another side with a kitchen knife.
  4. Sprinkle lemon juice on avocado.
  5. Put some salt or soy sauce and pepper sauce or Wasabi into the hole.
  6. Spoon out to eat!
Avocado with lemon juice and salt is Mexican way which is much more common. But Avocado goes well with Japanese dishes as well. Avocado with Japanese soy sauce (use Kikkoman) and Wasabi tastes just like a kind of Sashimi(Japanese raw fish dish). I've heard that the avocado is called "poorman's tuna" in Hawaii.
to be continued

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