Cooking : Aubergine chicken

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It has been a long time since the last cooking recipe. Does that mean that I have been totally uncreative culinary speaking? Does that mean that I have been eating out so often that I didn't bother creating anything special once in the kitchen? Probably a little bit of both. Anyway, here is my recipe for today.

What do you need :

Chicken
2 aubergines
Onion
Garlic
Soy sauce
Sesame oil
Dried basil
Fresh basil leaves

Pre-reparation :

Cut the chicken into pieces and baste it with some sesame oil. Add the dried basil.
Slide the aubergine and let them marinate in the soy sauce. Left the all rest for some time.

Preparation :

Cook the chicken pieces in a well oiled pan with the onion cut into pieces and the garlic. When the chicken is glazed, add the aubergines' slides and some of the soy sauce. Be careful not to add too much of the soy sauce as it would result in a dish too salty. Add the fresh basil leafs and serve with rice.




いただきます !

パーフェクトブルー (perfect blue)

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パーフェクトブルー is an animation movie in the psychological thriller style by 今 敏 (Satoshi Kon) released in 1997. 今 敏 also directed パプリカ (Paprika) and 千年女優 (Millennium Actress). The screen play was written by 村井 さだゆき (Vampire princess Miyu TV, Cowboy bebop) adapted from a novel by Yoshikazu Takeuchi.

Mima is a young idol singing in a girl trio. She decides to quit the group at the high pick of success to become an actress in a TV drama. Incident starts to happen around her menacing her life and the life of her coworkers. At the same time a web site describing the life of the "real" Mima makes her feel followed.



I discovered this movie years ago during a special manga night at the local cinema. I watched it several times and every time I discover something new. I like the music by Masahiro Ikumi which adds a lot to the oppression feeling of the movie.
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Week-end in London part 2

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The second day was went to visit Camden. In Camden you have a market and a street with a lot of shops who have really nice and crazy front. You also have a mall and a river with food stands from every where in the world. I really like London for it's diversity. It could be an interesting place to live in some day or for a longer holiday at least. I think London is one of the most interesting place for windows shopping, if I could go there before Christmas I would never have problem with Christmas presents ever again. We went visit as tourism a bit more in the afternoon before flying back to Belfast.
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Week-end in London part 1

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In February 2010, we spend a week-end in London to go to the Royal Opera House see the "Romeo and Juliet" ballet. We left in the morning and went to visit London a bit before going for lunch in China town. We then find our hotel and changed to go to the Opera. I really liked the ballet. We used to watch the "Big Screen" in Belfast every summer, that time in London we could watch the thing from closer. That was really impressive.
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