Fresh herb pizza

I made two pizza with fresh herbs and cherry tomatoes from our garden.

This is a quick bread mix which was produced by Sachiko Murakami. It was 50 % off.It took only 30 seconds to leaven the dough with a microwave oven. Bench time was also short!

My fake Caprese salad

This salad looks like a Caprese salad, but it was a tofu salad which I made two days ago. I used the fresh herbs from my garden. It was a healty cheap salad. The next day I bought a balsamic vineger to make a fake Caprese salad again, and I made it.

I still had some sun dried tomatoes, I made the simple sun dried tomato pasta with Aojiso, or Japanese green peril leaves. Sigh, this picture is blurred!

My mother made the gnocchi again two days ago

I used this creamy cheese sauce and the fresh herbs.

Pesto?・・・ pesto alla genovese

I mistook "Pesto" for a contagious disease. It is an Italian pasta sauce what we called "ジェノバソース"or "basil sauce" in Japanese. I wanted to make this sauce from scratch, so I went shopping. I saw two imported Italian pesto and a Japanese company's pesto. I thought that a Japanese company's one is not so rich. Therefore, I bought the Japanese one, instead of buying some ingredients. Also, I made a loaf of rosemary bread. lol As a matter of fact, I wanted to make some "Focaccia", but I thought it was pain in the neck to make them. I used some semolina flour with some bread flour, so the texture was crunch.Also, I used some fresh rosemary from my garden, so it smelled nice.

＊I finally figured out "pesto"means "paste".

Gnocchi,cold tofu, ニョッキとおもしろ冷奴

My mother made the funny shaped gnocchi, so I made the strange? pasta with some fresh thyme, oregano, Italian parsely and a zucchini from my garden. It was tastier than what I expected.

I cut the tofu with some cookie cutters. They were cute, weren't they? Since it was very hot today, my mother and I ate them outside.