Very Easy - Natto Recipe For Breakfast

If you have no time to prepare a easy & quick & healthy low fat breakfast, here is an idea - my favorite at home.   

Just prepare the following:

1 slice of wholewheat bread (or white if you can't eat wholewheat)

1 pack natto

30 gram of pizza cheese

1 slice of ham (if any)

How to make:

1. Mix natto well with the sauce (usually included in the pack) until it becomes sticky and spread it the way you would spread a jam on the bread

2. Cut ham into small slices and place them on top of natto

3. Then sprinkle pizza cheese evenly 

4. Grill it for 3 minutes

I usually have it with a glass of tomatoes juice with black sesame toppings and five strawberries.

This breakfast will give you not only the energy to start the day, but the lots of natural vitamins and minerals needed to keep you stay fit ;D

Black Sesame in Juice

Another easy way to digest the already known healthy sesame - the source of vitamin E and other goodies.   Tomato contains vitamin A, B6 and C, a good source of fibre, Kalium and Iron.

I like to drink it in the morning.  

What you need:

a glass of tomato juice (preferably a fresh one)

1 tbsp of black sesame

Easy & Cheap Ways To Health & Beauty

Most of us already know that health and beauty go hand in hand, 

however we sometimes forget to practice a healthy lifestyle or some 

of us find it hard to continue healthy lifestlye because we have no 

time or simply it just takes so much effort and such a hassle.

Yes. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle seem to involve a lot of work, 

cost money and not easy. Such as doing a regular exercise, eat well 

balanced diet, take enough nutritions, sleep enough, no stress ...  

the list can go on.  

If there is a way to maintain health and beauty in an easier way, 

the natural way, cheap and proven to work (well, it works among 

women here), would you like to try?

First, here are the keywords to remember:  

*Collagen, *Black and White Sesame, *Royal jelly

Collagen

Most of us know that it keeps our skin & bones healthy. We also 

know that as we get older collagen level drops, therefore we need

to take special care to maintain collagen in the body to maintain 

skin health and prevent ageing (wrinkles).

Here is an easy to get and cheap food that contains lots of 

collagen: chicken wings, minced pork,　lever (pork), spare 

ribs, prawns and the less commonly available at supermarket 

and may be slightly offensive to some of us, chicken  feet, pork

hand/pettitoes (!) and sharkfin.

Black & White Sesame

Sesame, which contains a lot of vitamin E, is more widely known as a health supple ment than beauty supplement. Also, most people are more familiar with sesame oil 

than sesame powder. There is a limitation intake when it comes to sesame oil because most people are concerned with calories intake. However, in Japan black and white sesame are widely used in various dishes, especially 

Japanese sweets. Check out: "Breakfast With Black Sesame"

Royal Jelly

The common royal jelly you will find are available in tablets and often expensive. The best and reasonable

substitute of royal jelly is actually pure honey.  Honey also contains the benefits similar to that of royal jelly.

Do you know that the use of honey for beauty treatment

was known from long time ago, even during Cleopatra 

era?

Easy to make recipes containing collagen, using black/white sesame

and honey are coming soon.

Easy to Make Sukiyaki

Sukiyaki is best cooked at home since you can select the best ingredients and feel more comfortable eating at your own pace.   Here is my way of cooking sukiyaki.   Very simple and easy.

What you need:

1 medium/large size frying pan (if possible not a wok, but a non stick frying pan)

1 small bowl for the egg and 1 medium bowl to serve sukiyaki (2 bowls for each person)

Photo (left) - white stuff on the beef is sugar - some prefer putting sugar separate from sauce*

Ingredients:

300 gr Thinly sliced beef (any types of beef will do, but beef for roast type is best)

2 Welsh onions

1 Tofu

4-6 pcs Shiitake mushrooms

Green vegetables (garland chrysanthemum if possible, alternatively spinach or any green leaf vegetables)

Vegetable oil (a little)

Eggs (1 egg for 1 person, adjust accordingly)

Other ingredients (not a must have but good to have):

Konyaku (if you can get the noodle type konyaku, otherwise, get a block konyaku and grate it thinly or slice it into smaller pieces)

For sauce* to cook ingredients:

1 cup (160ml) Water (or i usually use fish/beef broth - please do not add MSG)

3/4 cup of soy sauce

2 tbsp sugar*

1/2 cup of mirin

How to cook:

1. Put sauce mixture into a separate pot and bring it to boil.   Once boiled, put it aside.

2. Prepare vegetables.   Cut tofu, welsh onions and other vegetables into edible slices. 

3. Put 2 tsp of vegetable oil into the large frying pan and heat the pan, then put the slices of beef to fry.   

4. When the beef start to change color, put the beef on one side of the frying pan, while you arrange all the vegetables on the top (see photos)

5. Pour the hot mixture of sauce into the frying pan and bring it to boil once again.   Cook at medium for the first 10 minutes then change it to low fire until all vegetables are cooked.

How to serve:

Break raw egg one in each bowl and shake them well.     Pour sukiyaki into separate bowl.   

How to eat:

Dip your sukiyaki into the raw egg, before you eat.   The strong taste of sweetness and flavor of beef becomes mild with the mixture of eggs.

For those who prefer not to eat raw eggs:

Towards the end of cooking, pour raw eggs into the hot sukiyaki mixture in the frying pan and cook them as well before serving.

Tuna & Mayonaisse Spaghetti (2 steps)

It is time for lunch.   You open the fridge and find mayonaisse and Welsh onions and in the cupboard you have a can of tuna.   What can you have for lunch?  Yes, a tuna mayonaisse spaghetti - my favorite, easy to make dish.

Ingredients:

Spaghetti 200 grm

Tuna 1 can (160grm)

Welsh onions 1 (15cm)

Sauce:

Sesame oil & Mayonaisse 1tbsp each

Soy sauce 1 tsp (if any) OR alternatively salt 1/2 tsp

Pepper (adjust according to taste)

Black sesame powder and white sesame powder 1 tbsp each

How to make:

1. Prepare the sauce, by combining sesame powders, soy sauce, pepper, oil & mayonaisse in a large bowl.     Cut the welsh onion into very fine little slices and mix together with the sauce.

2. Prepare boiling water for spaghetti as usual.   Boil spaghetti well and drain the water using a strainer.  Quickly move the cooked spaghetti into the large bowl and mix with the sauce well.

Ready to serve!  Taste best when it is warm.

Y O K A N (ref. January 20th 2009)

Yokan is a low calorie sweets that is good for your health.  It is made of red bean, which is known to lower cholesterol and contains high level of protein.   It is very easy to make.   Those who have made jelly (hard type) before, can easily make yokan.

Ingredients:

Canned "cooked" red beans 1

Jelly powder (do not use instant powder that does not require boiling)

Water 400 cc

Warnings: 

*Make sure that the amount of jelly powder and water match.  You can adjust your own recipe depending on the type of jelly powder you use.

*You may need to put the red beans in the blender first, if you like the yokan to come with soft texture  (see photo)

How to make:

1. Prepare ingredients to make jelly as usual - but this time make sure that you do not put too much water.   Adjust the first step according to the type of jelly mixture you use.

2. After bringing the mixture to boil, turn off the fire, then pour the whole red beans into the jelly mixture.

3. Stir well and taste it (you can add sugar according to taste).   If the red beans is already sweet, you probably do not want to add sugar.

Note that the jelly you made may not have the same color as the one in the photo.   The more red beans you put, the darker color the yokan will be.