My new obsession

Last weekend, I went to the area which is crowded with a lot kinds of shops of ethnic food material! Then I found this at the Pakistan ingredient shop!

"Pomegranate seed"!!It is dried pomegranate!! I've never seen it at ethnic ingredient shop!!

It looks really ugly but the taste is awesome!! It's similar to raisin!But Pomegranate seeds are much sourer!! And it is really crunchy and delicious!!

According to the owner, it is used for curry!
But I found that it went nicely with yoghurt as well!!

If you have chance to see this package, please try it!!

Interesting!

Korean dining

Today is Sunday! My Korean housemate have day off every Sunday so she has time to cook!
Then what's happening?
It's getting usual thing that my Sunday dinner is deadly spicy Korean plate!!

My first korean friend

Today's dinner is "Toppogi".
One of my flat mates is Korean girl who is working at game company in Tokyo.
She had day off today and we met at the kitchen this morning and she said "I'm making toppogi for dinner　today." Then I said "Will you tell me how to make it?"
Then her sudden cooking class has been　held at night.

Korean Chilli paste.!! It's really spicy but it contains sugar as well. So it's spicy and sweet.

This is soup stock she brought from Korea. It smells like fish.

It was really surprising taste.
You can taste spiciness and sweetness at the same time!
But she was Korean who don't like spiciness so this time sweetness won.
（Chilli paste contains much amount of sugar and then she added sugar additionary!! ）
Therefore I felt like I was eating "Mitarashi-dango"(Caramelized mochi-Japanese sweets↓)

 （http://oixi.jp/sakeuma/archive/130）

I'm stuffed.

＊Report 8＊ Olive Japan 2013 「"ＩＯ" ( My best!)」

◆ＩＯ　（ＳＰＡＩＮ）

During my olive trip today, I chose this as my best!!
Once I had it in the mouse, it tasted exactly like Green apple!!
It was so amazing!! 
But it was really subtle taste ! So when I eat it with bread, the taste was vanished.

今回、ほぼすべてのオリーブを試飲したが、私の中では、これが一番印象深く、美味しかった。
口に入れると、青りんごのフルーティーな風味がし、とてもおいしい。
けれども、とても繊細な味のため、次にパンにつけて食べると、パンに風味がもってかれて、オイルの味がしなかた。
http://www.isco-web.co.jp/food/products.html
http://portal.vianoleo.es/io

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＊My ranking＊　（私のオリーブオイルランキング）
1, Io
2, Firstday of hearvest
3,Alva oliva
4,olio di extravergine di oliva  (Contardi)
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P.S.
As I expected, I found Olivastro there.
Every festival and exhibition of olive oil, I found this company's olive oil and there are a lot of people around this. How strong it is!!

やっぱり、このオリーブオイルは東京でも人気を博していた。
去年、阪神百貨店でやっていたイタリア展で出会ってから、このOLIVASTROが私の中で一位だった。やっぱりおいしい。

Olivastro -quattrociocchi

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＊Report 7＊ Olive Japan 2013 「Vanila ,Orange, Peach」

(Left) taste of Orange ,   (Right)taste of Vanila
（左）オレンジ味のオリーブ　　　（右）バニラビーンズを漬け込んだオリーブ
とても珍しいオリーブオイルだが、フルーティーさやオリーブの香りが好なため、バニラのオリーブは私には合わなかった。

◆America、ＣＡ

Taste of peach! He said there is a kind of tree which brings olives tasted like peach!
ピーチの味がした！彼によると、ピーチの味のオリーブを実らせる木があるらしい。

 ◆Ａｕｓｔｒａｌｉａ

◆Ｇｏｙａ

とてもリーズナブルな価格のオリーブたち。

なんと、２００円！でも、ちゃんとフルーティーな味があり、おいしい。↑

各、２５０円↑

＊Report 6＊ Olive Japan 2013 「Grape fluit olive oil」

◆Alva Oliva

This amusing package nicely expressed the taste of this Olive oil.

パッケージのデザインが味そのものを上手に表現している。

The taste was really fruity and it was like grapefruit!
I heard if it contained grapefruit  juice or not.Then the owner told me it didn't contained grape juice.The fruity taste came from the type of Olive called "Piqual".
Piqual olive has a strong taste of Fruit and this Olive oil uses Piqual olives for 100 percent!
Amazing!
このオリーブオイルは、グレープフルーツのいい味がした。店員の方に、グレープフルーツの果汁がはいってるのですか？ときくと、果汁は一切入ってなく、このグレープフルーツの様な味は、ピクアルという品種のオリーブを１００パーセント使っているために出るのだと教えてもらった。
とてもおいしい！

The another olive oil that I found at the same booth was also delicious.
同じブースで紹介されていたオリーブオイル。
◆Olio di extravergine di oliva ・・・ Contardi

味が、クアトロチョッキ社のオリバストロに似ていた。