中華セイロを買いました。これまで蒸し料理は茶碗蒸しか子供の頃ババロワ作りしたことくらいでしたが、今月の「おかずクッキング」に刺激されて魚を蒸してみたらえらく旨かったので、もっとあれこれ攻めてみたくなったというわけです。そこで横浜中華街の照宝まで行ってみました。
お店には4ランクの商品があって、上から檜、ホワイトパイン、杉となり、その下にもう1 ランクあるようです。僕は最も標準的な杉にしてサイズは24cmφと決めていました。このサイズなら肉まんが3個入るし、26cmのフライパンでもちょうど組み合わせやすいと考えたからです。これは1800円弱でしたが、ランクが上がるとその2倍、4倍に跳ね上がります。アルミの敷板が同じくらいの値段でした。もしこれでハマったら、CRISTELの蒸し鍋を買い足しても良いかなと考えています。
I bought a Chinese steaming basket. As for steamed cooking, I had only tried egg puddings before or back in my childhood some attempts of bavarois, but this month’s “Okazu Cooking” textbook had steaming as its main subject which stimulated me to try with a fish which turned out to be fabulous and I was motivated to try more seriously. So I went to Shoho in Yokohama Chinatown.
They carried baskets in 4 grades: hinoki cypress, white pine, cedar, and then something on the bottom. I took the most standard cedar baskets and I was determined to get the size of 24 cm diameter because it can steam up to 3 Chinese buns and also my 26cm frying pan would fit well. The price was about 1800 Yen while the upper models were x2 or x4 more expensive. The aluminum bottom plate was about the same price. If steaming becomes an indispensable repartoire for me, I would consider adding CRISTEL’s cuit-vapeur at a later time.
5/20/2010
5/17/2010
Mordorée, Kusuda, Sociando Mallet - ちょっといいワイン
すこし値の張るワインを立て続けに開栓する機会があったので記録にとどめておこう。先週旧友3名の来訪を受け、手を煩わせてはとハム、チーズ、パンなどが持ち込まれての団らんランチとなった。Mondaviのピノ・セレクションがおみやげだったので、それに引き続きモルドレのシャトー・ヌフ・デュ・パプをこんな機会にこそと思い切って開けた。すこぶる好評でMondaviの平面的な印象と比べると遙かに深淵で多層的な味わいだった。
続いて日曜日には義父の91歳を祝う食事会を自宅で取り仕切ることになった。初鰹一本と寿司ネタで手巻きにクスダのピノ2006を合わせた。シンプルにうまい。軽やかな質の良さと言うべきか。その後ステーキも焼いたので、ソシアンド・マレ2006を飲んだが、しばらくすると極度に眠気が襲ってきて少し昼寝した。この睡眠導入力にはびっくり。
I had a couple of opportunities to open a few relatively expensive wines. Last week three old friends of mine visited me, and they brought ham, cheese and bread not to bother me cooking and their souvenir was Mondavi’s pinot selection. After this bottle in the lunch, I took the liberty to pick a Mordorée Chateauneuf du Pape out of my refrige-cellar in this exceptional occasion. Everybody really loved this one, and it was indeed profound and complex in comparison to rather flat Mondavi’s.
Following Sunday was a house party for my father-in-law’s 91st birthday. I got a spring bonito and variety of other sashimi fish for do-it-yourself hand-roll "maki". Coupled wine was Kusuda pinot 2006, which was simply exquisite, or I should say excellence in the quality of lightness. We also cooked steaks and I opened Sociando-Mallet 2006 for it. Later, I got extremely sleepy and could not avoid a short nap. Its hypnotic power was just outstanding!
続いて日曜日には義父の91歳を祝う食事会を自宅で取り仕切ることになった。初鰹一本と寿司ネタで手巻きにクスダのピノ2006を合わせた。シンプルにうまい。軽やかな質の良さと言うべきか。その後ステーキも焼いたので、ソシアンド・マレ2006を飲んだが、しばらくすると極度に眠気が襲ってきて少し昼寝した。この睡眠導入力にはびっくり。
I had a couple of opportunities to open a few relatively expensive wines. Last week three old friends of mine visited me, and they brought ham, cheese and bread not to bother me cooking and their souvenir was Mondavi’s pinot selection. After this bottle in the lunch, I took the liberty to pick a Mordorée Chateauneuf du Pape out of my refrige-cellar in this exceptional occasion. Everybody really loved this one, and it was indeed profound and complex in comparison to rather flat Mondavi’s.
Following Sunday was a house party for my father-in-law’s 91st birthday. I got a spring bonito and variety of other sashimi fish for do-it-yourself hand-roll "maki". Coupled wine was Kusuda pinot 2006, which was simply exquisite, or I should say excellence in the quality of lightness. We also cooked steaks and I opened Sociando-Mallet 2006 for it. Later, I got extremely sleepy and could not avoid a short nap. Its hypnotic power was just outstanding!
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