Alternative Blanquette ~ Curry&Tofu Spaghettis

You may know this famous french meal, la blanquette, usually made of veal and without any spices.
Well, I kind of made it my own way, which means, the vegetarian way ! 


A lot of people say they don't like tofu, that it tastes so bad and so on ... Please try this before saying this again, if this is your case !  I can assure you this plate is delicious and really not the kind of meal that let you hungry, though it's perfect for a diet. 
The cream is light, the pastas if eaten only like twice a week give you the carbs you need, the tofu is full of proteins and with a ridiculously low number of calories!  Carrots and mushrooms are obviously only good for you! 

You'll just need about 2 or 3 mushrooms, according to your taste, spaghettis, 1 carrot, 1 block of firm tofu and some crème fraîche.

1. Put the pastas in the boiling water.

2. Meanwhile, cut the carrot&the mushrooms.

3. Cook the carrot with some olive oil. Few minutes afterwarnthough it's firm, you want to be gentle not to break it.
5. When it's almost cooked, it's time for the crème fraîcheds, cook the mushrooms.

4. Cut the tofu in little squares,add curry and add it to the vegetables. Eve !  :)

6. Let it cook a little bit more, not too much, add spices of your choice, and serve on the spaghettis :)

Easy, quick& really delicous! 

Easy&Healthy Fajitas.

Today I was so damn hungry when I got back from college, and I was craving for a kind of spicy/mexican food, which I very rarely have. 

These fajitas are incredibly easy&quick to do, delicious and yet they make you full they are very healthy. Apart from the cheese, it contains few calories&carbs which is very nice.

1. Cut any vegetables of your choice in squares, I chose red&green pepers, with tomatoes.

2. Add some spicy tomatoe sauce to the vegetables after 5/6 minutes of cooking, and let it cook until it gets the desired consistency.

3. Break and egg or two on top of it and mix :)

4. Heat the fajitas, add lettuce, and serve the mixture, with some cheese on top. :)

And tadaaaa :)

花見.

I just feel like sharing some pretty pictures I like to look at for hours. You may not know this but I'm slightly obsssed with sakura, or cherry blossoms. I have one tattooed on my right ribcage, and I just love these flowers so much. They're powerful, delicate and absolutely feminine. People wait for them to blow the whole year, just to catch a glance of their magnificence.

"The traditional Japanese values of purity and simplicity are thought to be reflected in the form and color of the blossoms." (Osamu, 1983).

Though fragile and brief, during hanami, flowers overrun every hill or city, coloring the country in this famous&sweet light pink.

What I find extremely moving in blossoms is how short they are, for they are said to last "no more than three days", and the comparison that was made with samurais' lives, who were always ready to sacrifice themselves. There's a saying that is :

"Among flowers, the cherry blossom;

Among men, the samurai."

.花は桜木人は武士.

Also, the famous japanese cherry tree that is celebrated during hanami doesn't yield any fruit like any other cherry tree, which makes it very special, because its only mission is to be beautiful. A concept highly similar, to me, to Aestheticism with its famous slogan : " Art for Art's Sake."

There's a noble feeling to hanami, and it's interesting to know that it was initially limited to the Imperial Court, but then to samurais, to finally be celebrated by everyone.

The origin of hanami is said to be the adoption of the celebration by the Emperor Saga, who held flower-viewing parties with sake, underneath the trees in the Imperial Court in Kyoto, during which people would write poems and songs about the ephemeral yet luminous and beautiful flowers, metaphors for life itself.

Arashiyama

 Kubo Shunman

Hiroshige