la terrasse

Saturday we tried La Terrasse.

On the weekends, their lunch menu is actually their dinner menu.

Satoshi and I chose two items and shared.

This mixed fry...1300 yen (tax not included)...meh! what a rip off.

A piece of fish (fried to death), two pieces of calamari and two teeny shrimp.

The bacon mushroom pizza on the other hand was good!

And cheaper than that fried plate...1100 yen (tax not included).

We loved the crust.

We also added salads and coffees..300 yen (tax not included) per person.

Aside from the pizza, this place is probably more popular for their desserts.

We'll probably be back to try the desserts, not soon though.

La Terrasse
Grand Front Umekita B1
Umeda, Osaka
Phone: 06.6485.7788
Hours: 10:00-22:00
Open when Grand Front is

p.s. tomorrow is Setsubun, if you are celebrating and eating ehomaki, the direction this year is south-south-east.

cool

When I was cooking the brussels sprouts, I had initially thrown the top into the garbage.

Then I looked online and realized you can eat the top too.

Luckily, there wasn't any garbage in my bin yet, so I fished it out.

After rinsing it and chopping it up, I added it to our vegetable soup the other night.

This was a bit tougher than "cabbage" more like kale.

A nice addition to our soup and now I know we can eat it too.

trigo

Yesterday, I tried Trigo, a teeny bakery in between of the Itami airport and Hankyu Hotarugaike station.

Loved the chicken katsu sandwich...249 yen (tax included) Fried perfect.

The bread was a bit chewy but I think it needed to be so as not to get soggy with the katsu sauce and mayo.

Pie manju...71 yen (left)

I thought it would be similar to the pie crust manju we have in Hawaii, but in Japan, "pie" means puff pastry...still delicious. Like a sweet bean filled croissant.

And their mochi donut...3 for 176 yen (right). Super chewy with bits of sweet potato in it. I gave Satoshi the other two.

They had so much to choose from, and although they are a bit out of the way of my usual market routes, I hope to go back soon.

Have a nice weekend.

Trigo
1-26-5 Hotarugaikenishi-machi
Toyonaka, Osaka
Phone: 06.6857.7028
Hours: 7:00-20:30
Open daily

happy

Stumbled upon this stalk of brussels sprouts today...258 yen (tax not included)

It was the first time I've seen them sold this way here.

Am thinking of cooking them this way tonight.

Happy.

yaki imo man

Heard a high pitched whistle thingy tonight...it was the yaki imo (roasted sweet potato) man.

I've never bought from him though, kinda scared to.

Next time he comes around (and Satoshi's home), I'll be brave and check out the yaki imo man.

gattsu umai kome hashimoto

I tried a new place today, Gattsu Umai Kome Hashimoto.

They sell rice by weight and they also sell musubi. If you want, you can also eat at their counter.

I picked up a niku miso (left) and yaki miso (right)...410 yen (tax included).

When I first bit into the niku miso musubi, there was no filling.

A second bite and still nothing.

The filling was only in the very center. And it wasn't niku miso, just plain miso.

Pretty disappointing.

I'm glad I tried this place, but probably won't be going back.

Gattsu Umai Kome Hashimoto
1-1 Sakae-machi, Blanc Marche 1-bankan
Ikeda, Osaka
Phone: 072.734.8522
Hours: 10:00-19:00

the past couple of days

The weekend was forecast for the coldest front in many moons.

The weather dude even forecast that Okinawa may even get some snow!

Whoa?!

We bought some water for drinking, just in case the power went out.

My survival skills go only as far as for hurricanes, so this blizzard thing was new to me.

Luckily (read disappointedly), we didn't have ANY snow.

In fact, the sun came out for the most part of the day.

Still, we didn't go outside, the wind was pretty icy.

Oh well, at least I got to finish a book I was reading.

Dinner was a nabe (hot pot) of pork belly, hakusai (chinese cabbage), a can of diced tomato, dashi (stock) and curry powder.

We also had some really pale gyoza...I still need to get the hang of cooking gyoza...

To end, we made ojiya and added some rice and cheese.

Hope your weekend was a good one.