Cooking box

Hello readers!

This week have been very very buisy for me. At work a lot of coworkers are missing for vacation (here in Italy we are used to have vacation in August) and who has no vacation (like me) have to work more for cover the missing ones.

Despite my binding and special work, I found a bit of time for cook something good. Cooking is an activity that relax me. I love cooking and I usually don't use recipes because they are too "rigorous". The first dish I show you is a dish of Ramen with chiken and vegetables (onions, carrots and cabbage). I make it dry too much, but it was good.

Then something of the italian tradition: eggplant parmigiana. Eggplant parmigiana is a sort of lasagne with slices of eggplants instead of slices of pasta and a lot of parmesan cheese. It was the first time I cooked it and I've been satisfaied. Maybe I put a little too tomatoe sauce, but my father really loved it and this was enough for me.

During this week eggplants have been protagonists in my dishes. My parents cultivate them in our vegetable gardens and the eggplants this summer are a lot. So I wanted try a new recipe with this nice vegetable. I cut them in slices and then rolled in breadcrumbs, and finally I cooked the in a pan with a little bit of oil. It was the first time my father ate them in that way and he loved them so much that he asked me to cook them again.

Hope you liked my post.

Have a nice weekend.

Emily

Anime/Manga Review: Deadman Wonderland

Hello readers and happy summer to evrybody!
Today I want talk to you abou the anime and the manga named "Deadman Wonderland" by Kazuma Kondou. It's a splatter horror shonen.

My boyfriend and I found the first series of the anime on "VVVVID", our favourite streaming website, anime and it aroused our curiosity.

It talk about a boy who survived to the carnage of his classmates made by the red man and who was judged at fault of the carnage. He was send down into "Deadman Wonderland", a private jail used also as entertainment center. There he descouver that he is able to control its blood and that there is someone who is making experiments with special and not  prisoners.

We watched the first series, but the anime isn't actually complete. And it excited me so much that I read the rest of the story on the manga. I loved both a lot and now I'm waiting for the second series of the anime.

Run see and read it (if you have the guts to do it)!  I'll be there for evry comment about it.

Have a nice summer!

Emily

Just a minute in...July

READING: Irish Ghost Stories
LISTENING: sounds of summer
WATCHING: the anime "Bakemonogatari"
BUYING: a new large red bag
LOVING: my new hair stile

Have a nice week!

Emily

Pasta with Salami Pasta

Good sunday readers! How are you?

This morning I was so dynamic that I decided to cook something very, very good for lunch.  I opened the fridge and, there, right there, at the forefront of one of the shelfs, in front of my eyes, I have found a little pack of salami pasta. So, why don't cook a good sauce for pasta? And I did it! I wanted use potatoes dumplings, but I did not have potatoes at home, so I used penne. 

The recipe is very simple:

1- I prepared some sautéed vegetables with onions, carrots and slice of squashed garlic.

2- I added the salami pasta, the tomato passata and a bit of BBQ sauce and let it boil.

3- I cooked the pasta.

4- Finally, I mixed all together and served after it cooled a little.

And this is the result!

Hope you liked this post.

Have a nice summer's weekend!

Emily

Manga review: Torikago Syndrome

Hello readers! How are you?

Today I want talk about the new manga "Torikago Syndrome" by Akaza Samamiya.

"Will the young boys in cage obtain the wings for freedom or will crowl into the darkness?

With the suggestion of "Daddy Long-legs", Tsugumi Ayase join the seminary Zugvogel. There, searching the true freedom, take part to "the game of the classes". However because of this cruel and unfair game Marco, the first friend that the boy has nevere had, is pushed to retreat himself from the school and Tsugumi decide to become the next "king" for stopping this game. So start a new game with protagonists Tsugumi, the king Kain, the misterious Licht and the teacher Reinhart!

What will be the outcome of the game?"

A perfect summary behind the manga. I wasn't able to write one, so I decided to copy (or better translate) the summary of the manga.

I found the first pages of this manga into a booklet in my favourite comics shop and than I found the first number at the Verona Comics' Fair. After I bought the first number I descovered that it was a miniseries composed by only 2 volumes. I've read the first number, I litterarly divoured it, and than? I wanted read the second one because I wanted know how it finished.

It have been very interesting, with a lot of intrigues between the protagonists. Something "soft", infact it is a Shojo manga, a sort of romance. I liked it, and for the lovers of Shojos, I really suggest it.

See you next post!

Love

Emily.

Just a minute in...June

READING: blogs and mangas
LISTENING: Anime's opening themes
WHATCHING: "My hero Academia"
BUYING: cinese food for me and my boyfriend
LOVING: summer

Anime review: Kiseiju

Hello everybody!
Last week my boyfriend and I finished to watch "Kiseiju".

It talk about a parasite who ate the right arm of a boy. They start to live together for their survival against other parasites who kill and eat other people.

The plot is very simple,  but the ideologies exhibited in it are relly strong. The anime has a specific reference to our modern theme of pollution and world's overpopulation. I like the almost radical changing of the protagonist, but i liked more the ideologies of the parasites.

As usual I don't like say more about, because I don't want spoil something very very interesting!

See you at next post!

Love

Emily