| Normally cluttered minimal Japanese kitchen for highly experimental food! |
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| In case you wonder "What's living in the fridge?", here it is! Fairly full, and with milk reserve for one week (sic!) . |
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Many years ago, I started living alone for some time, and as I couldn't afford a dinner at restaurant every day, I started to cook for myself. Well, the difference between a beast and a human is of course the style of the meals! So, I started learning cooking, first of all following the recipes of Pellegrino Artusi (in "La scienza in cucina e l'arte di mangiar bene" [Science in the kitchen and the art of eating well], you can download the Italian text [2.1MB]) and I soon discovered that I like cooking. It stimulates fantasy, and also pride, when it comes to what I call "emergency cooking" (like coming late at home , giving a hopeless look to your almost empty fridge, and after 40 minutes having a decent dinner prepared from nothing).
After four years, while living in Trento, I succeeded in gathering together a lot of kitchen tools and spices and "secret ingredients", which made me rather proud of my dinners (often, with 3-6 guests). Now, in Japan, I have to rebuild everything from scratch. My kitchen is really minimal!
I will write down a few recipes, if only I can translate the ingredients from Italian to English...