Bagel

Last year I found out to be pregnant and so happy! But during my pregnancy I had no problem with any food but sweets!!! So I did not feel to cook any and either write this blog. Naturally the body changes and only accepts what baby needs?

Anyway my baby was born without any problem and I started to feel to eat sweets again. It makes me happy but I read an article about "Glycation", which is one of biggest cause of aging(>_<). So for me and for my baby, I try to cook sweets with less calorie and sugar.

Today I made Bagel I hooked on recently.

<Recipe>

Flour                  150g
Whole wheat　　100g
Dry yeast            　5g
Salt  　　　　　　　　5g
Beet sugar　　　　12g
Water　　　　　　140g

1.　Put all ingredients in a bowl and mix them.
2.　Once mixed, put the dough on the board and knead it until it becomes smooth (around 15min).
3.　Roll the dough into a ball, put it back in the bowl with the film, and leave it to be fermented (around 1hour to be double).
4.　Punch the dough down, cut it into 4 pieces and roll them into a ball.
5.　Leave them for 10 min.
6.　Press the dough to flatten, fold 1/3 of top and down to the centre, close the seam using the fingers  and roll the dough into a shape of a rod.
7.　Joint the both ends to make a circle (wrap one end with another end).
8.　Prepare 4 of 10cmX10cm cooking sheet and place each dough on it.
9.　Boil water in a pan with 20g of sugar and boil the dough with cooking sheet (1min per side).
10.　Drain off the water and bake them in the oven with 200℃ for 15 minutes.

If you cannot find beet sugar, you can use sugar but I recommend to try maple syrup.
You can replace 10g of flour with 1 table spoon of cocoa, matcha, hojicha powder etc. to enjoy different taste.

Try lots of variations of filling as well♪

Bon profit!!!

Refreshing Strawberry Mouse

Suddenly we concluded to invite my husband's family for Sunday lunch.
This time, he was in charge of food and me, pan & dessert.
As our kitchen was not very big, I had to finish my task to let him start, so I immediately got on.

Since I  had strawberry pure done, I decided to make Strawberry Mouse as dessert.

It is so light and refreshing, we can eat easily even on a full stomach.

＜Recipe＞

Strawberry pure　   160g
Sugar   　　　　　　   　25g
Powdered gelatin   　  6g
Fresh cream   　　　 200g
Strawberry　　　　　 some

Strawberry sauce
（You can make it by boiling strawberry pure 100g + sugar 20g in a pan）

1.　Put strawberry pure and sugar in a pan, heat it until start bubbling the surface then remove from the heat.
2.　Make gelatin soft by soaking in 1 spoon of water, add it into 1 and mix them.
3.　Once gelatin is mixed, pour the mixture into a bowl and apply ices around the bowl to cool the mixture.
4.　Whip the cream until soft peak stage.
5.　Check if 3 is not hot any more, add 1 part of whipped cream into 3 and mix, then pour this mixture into the rest of whipped cream and mix.
6.　Pour the mixture into glass cups and let them cool in a fridge.(if you add some cut strawberries in the mouse, we can feel more strawberry♪）
7.　Before serving, pour strawberry sauce on a top and place some strawberries.

I was in a hurry to make it, so the surface was quite rough, sorry!
But this mouse has lots of Vitamin C + antioxidant, so it can be recommended to everyone!

Bon profit!!!

Cafeteria in Barcelona - 2. PAUL

Cafeteria where I was visiting often when I was in Japan was PAUL, and in Barcelona I am still visiting.

Also my husband brings me Macaron from PAUL when he gets back from business trip via Paris so that I can enjoy cafe time with some of them at home.
（Normally they are from PAUL, not from Ladurée, which can be for only special occasion...(>_<) so, I usually derive happiness from PUAL's one...）

I had eaten one before taking the photo!

Today I prepared Matcha Latte.
Taking Matcha which helps burn fat and prevent from absorbing oil makes me feel less guilty to enjoy sweets...

There is a space to sit and eat, so it is quite convenient if you are a bit hungry in Barcelona.

PAUL
Calle Rosselló 235
08008, Barcelona (Barcelona)
Very near from Provença station.

Bon profit!!!

Doughy Bread with Rice flour

These days are Golden Week Holidays in Japan.
It seems the weather is not very nice but I hope they are having lovely holidays.

Today I made bread again.

In Spain, we have about 20minutes break for breakfast at around 10:00-11:00.
(In Japan also we had snack time at 10:00, didn't we? Or still have?)
So around this time, Cafeterias are full of people with suit, and who seem to work near, etc.
If you are in a queue in, for example municipal office, you can notice that there are less workers around this time. Even though so many people are waiting!
Of course, we can be tired to go to Cafeteria everyday, or we cannot find any near the office, so there are lots of people who make and bring their sandwich.

Mine is one of them(Sometimes he has croissant and cafe con leche and makes me envy him).
So for his breakfast, what I made was Doughy Bread(Mochi mochi Pan/Pan Pastoso) with Soy milk and Rice flour.

＜Recipe＞
Strong flour　　　　200g
Rice flour　　　　　　50g
Sugar       　　　　　　12g
Salt      　　　　　　　　4g
Dry yeast      　　　　 3g
Soy milk 　　　　　175g
Butter        　　　　　15g

1.　Mix flours, sugar, salt and yeast in a bowl.
2.　Add lukewarm soy milk to 1 and mix them roughly.
3.　Whip room temperature butter until becomes white.
4.　Add 3 to 2 and mix them, then put the dough on the board and knead until becomes smooth.
5.　Roll the dough into a ball, put it back in the bowl, wrap the bowl with the film, and leave it to be fermented (I put less yeast so the fermentation takes longer, so leave until becomes double).
6.　Punch the dough down, cut it into 6 pieces, roll them into a ball and leave them for 15 min.
7.　Flat the dough, fold 1/3 of top and down to the centre, and also fold 1/3 of both sides to the centre.
8.　Place the folded dough seam-side down on your left hand, and roll it into a smooth ball straining softly the dough from the top to the down by your right hand, seam the down using fingers and place them on the baking pan with cooking sheet.
9.　Cut the centre until 2-3mm from the bottom so that the 2 parts are not separated.
10.　Leave them to be fermented (around 1 hr).
11.　Bake them in the oven with 200℃ for 15 minutes。

So your croissant breakfast is postponed for a while♪

Bon profit!!!

Macrobiotic Strawberry Cupcake full of Strawberries

As I made big quantity of strawberry pure the other day, I have decided to bake Macrobiotic Strawberry Cupcake full of Strawberries.

This oil-free sponge is low in calories, and doughy like steamed cake due to rice flour.

＜Recipe＞

－Cake－
Rice flour 　　　            100g
Strong flour 　　　　　　　20g
Baking powder 　　           2 tea spoons
Salt　　　　　　　　　　　　   a pinch

Soy milk　　　　　           30g
Strawberry pure 　　　　120g
Maple syrup 　　        　　70g
1.　Mix all sifted flours in a bowl.
2.　Mix all liquid ingredients in another bowl.
3.　Add 2 to 1 and mix them.
4.　Pour the mixture in 6 molds for muffins and bake them in a oven with 170℃ for around 30 minutes.

－Soy milk cream－
Soy milk 　　　              150g
Strawberry pure            150g
Kanten 　　　　　　　           3 tea spoons
Maple syrup 　　             45g
Rice syrup                      45g
kudzu　　　　　　　           15g
Salt                                a pinch

1.　Put all ingredients in a pan and heat it while stirring with a spatula for 3 minutes.
2.　Pour 1 in a plate and leave it to be cooled.
3.　Once cooled, stir with mixer or beater to make the smooth cream.
Squeeze the cream out on the cooled cupcakes.

It is just me who think this pink colour cake is so cute??? (At least my husband doesn't)

Bon profit!!!

Strawberry Cake full of Strawberries

Strawberry is in season! It is a wonderful time for strawberry lovers.
Today I bought 2kg of strawberries, which was turned into strawberry pure, and I made a sweet for Strawberry Lovers(It is me), Strawberry Cake full of Strawberries.
Naming is not wonderful though...

Sponge did not come in pink as imagined, but we can feel Strawberry from everywhere and enjoy spring, and also get a benefit of rich Vitamin C♪

＜Recipe＞

－Sponge－
Egg　　　 　　　　　　　　 3
Sugar  　　　　　　　　　60g
Flour  　　　　　　　　　75g
Strawberry pure         60g

1.　Whip eggs and sugar until becomes white and fluffy but thick enough to leave the pattern when drop the mixture on the surface.
2.　Add sifted flour and mix them like cutting the flour into 1.
3.　Add strawberry pure and mix them from the bottom.
4.　Pour 3 in a rectangular mold(around 40X20cm) with baking sheet and bake it in a oven with 180℃ for 20 minutes.

－Cream－
Fresh cream　　　120g
Sugar 　　　　　　　 10g

1.　Whip the cream with sugar.

－Strawberry sauce－
Strawberry pure　　100g
Sugar  　　　　　　　　 20g

1.　Heat strawberry pure and sugar in a pan.

Once sponge becomes cold, cut into 1/3, cover the surface with the whipped cream, put the strawberries, put the other slice on it(repeat twice) and cover  with whipped cream and later strawberry sauce and decorate with strawberries.

Bon profit!!!

Hot Chocolate with Matcha

It was a few years ago when I found a news "White Cocoa had come to market!" on the web. As soon as I read this, I decided to buy it and try Matcha Hot Chocolate.

I love the combination of Matcha and Chocolate and also do most of Spanish people. But if we mix Matcha with normal chocolate, we cannot enjoy the beatuful green colur of Matcha and it is a pity. So to make sweets, we should add white chocolate but to make a drink??? Then here we have White Cocoa to solve this problem!

So I bought it.

I can see the seeds of vanilla beans in white cocoa and it looks so delicious as it is.
But if we add Matcha, and moreover, if we drink it in the morning, it would be much better for our body, mind and brain♪

I added TEA TIME MATCHA, the organic one from The Matcha House.

Delicate sweetness of White Cocoa goes well with Matcha and it tastes as nice as expected.

＜Recipe＞
White Cocoa　　　4 tea spoons
Matcha  　　　　　  1 tea spoon
Hot milk       　160g

1.　Put white cocoa and sifted Matcha in a cup.
2.　Heat milk just before it boils, pour in a cup and mix well.

* If you cannot find White Cocoa, you can make Matcha Latte, dissolving 1 tea spoon of Matcha in 20-30g of hot water, and add hot milk and mix them well. You may add sugar or honey as you like.

Bon profit!!!