Homemade Food 自家製の料理 (Jikasei No Ryouri)

Konbanwa! It's Monday! Always had the Monday blues and I'm not feeling very well today, the temperature suddenly drop to around 15'C this morning. I caught a mild flu and my head hurts. Since it's only autumn I don't know if I can survive winter later! Huhu..

I love Sunday.. Well, sort of.. Hehe.. Sunday is the day I usually do my laundry, clean my room and the toilet.. After that, I will cook my lunch at the dining room and then do some preparation for next week's classes..

As a Muslim, I have the adhered to some food/drink dietary (I can't eat pork and consume alcohol). Even though I can eat chicken and beef, since in Japan, chicken and cow is not slaughtered according to Islamic ways, I can't eat those meats too.. Meat that came from animal slaughtered according to Islamic ways is called Halal meat. Luckily, there's a few online stores that sells Halal food stuff and I found one Indian shop near Ikebukuro station's west exit that sells Halal foods.

Buying from online stores requires delivery charge of 1200yen, so, I seldom buy from it. Only once, to be exact. That was when I first arrived here. They will deliver it by using the Takkyubin and I have to pay when the item is delivered (COD-Cash on Delivery). Below is the items I bought from the online store (www.baticrom.com),

I bought Thai rice (I will try Japanese rice after this.. Hehe..) This pack of 5kg can last for about 2 months,

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Items I bought (Beef, chicken, cooking oil, chili sauce, soybean sauce and mango drink)

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I will go to the Indian shop every week to get my Halal chicken for 367yen per kilo. 1 kilo will last for about a week. Ok, now back to the topic of homemade food.. I have to cook my own meal everyday and that means lunch and dinner. I don't have much problem about doing it, it's fun.. I can try different menu everyday.. My meals MUST contain rice, at least once (for lunch). It can help me survive well during the day at campus. Before coming here, a friend recommended me on Onigiri lunch but it's just to little for my body to handle.

Usually I start my day with cooking the rice like 6-6.30 am and then go back to sleep. Then, I will wake up and cook some dishes to go along with the rice or fry the rice. I will put some veges (carrots, potatoes, mix vege) with meat/egg. Here's some of my meals I prepared for lunch and dinner since I arrived:

This one is my favourite! Maggi's Instant noodles from Malaysia,

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Simple meal of mushroom soup, scrambled egg and bread,

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Beef soup and rice porridge,

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Chicken whole leg fried wit rice porridge,

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Chinese fried rice,

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Beef soup with rice,

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Black pepper fried vermicelli with chili sauce,

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Lunch, rice with beef fried with carrots, potatoes and black pepper,

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The part I don't like about cooking for myself is the after-cooking cleaning.. Haha.. Have to wipe the cooking heater (well, I can just leave it the way it is but it doesn't feel right and look so messy).. Well, that's what living alone is all about.. Jya..