umami tales

Wednesday 23 July 2014




Umami /uːˈmɑːmi/, a savory taste, is one of the five basic tastes (together with sweet, sour, bitter and salty).
A loanword from the Japanese (うま味?), umami can be translated as "pleasant savory taste". This particular writing was chosen by Professor Kikunae Ikeda from umai (うまい) "delicious" and mi (味) "taste". The kanji 旨味 are used for a more general sense of a food as delicious.
Not being anything close to a cook, I have always looked at Katie's Randomly Delicious series and considered it a great idea. We often eat in the city, which is pricey and probably not the best idea, yet I just love doing so. My menu often includes sushi, in all forms, lots of pasta, desserts at Bella Vita and good old pizza. Generally, I am a lover of Italian and Japanese cuisine. Quite a mix, but I wouldn't trade them for anything else. On the other hand I love anything that goes with coffee, therefore lunches, brunches and regular breakfasts.

I rarely prepare something at home, but little sandwiches with salmon, arugula and cream cheese quickly became my favourite, after I tried them in one of those local lunch type coffee houses. Everything might be going in the right direction though because yesterday I found a cooking pal in my friend P, with whom we made our first meat patties. And this is how we're going to make it through the next three years. I would love to be cooking with my A, but we are never in the kitchen at the same time, so that might pose an issue :)

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Student life makes you quite familiar with toast bread. Actually, after two years it becomes your best friend. And I more than adore when I get served pancakes with some maple syrup. It's more than delicious and extremely sweet.




22 comments:

  1. The colours in these photos make the food look even tastier :) One of the greatest things about my life as a student were toasted croissants with cheese made at the uni's cafeteria (... now I'm hungry!).

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  2. What great photos! That's a lot of maple syrup, ahah.

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  3. Firstly an exceptional photographer and writer, and now an impressive cook?! How do you do it Kasia? ;)

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  4. Your homecooked meals look so fancy! Puts my scrambled eggs on toast to shame, haha.

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  5. You may say you can't cook but they sure do look tasty! ;)

    ps. I bought tudorclor just because of you. Can't wait to use them!

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  6. Those pancakes look great and make me hungry

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  7. Fantastic and so inspiring blog!!! :)
    I love your photos ♥

    http://mademoisellejuliet.blogspot.com/

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  8. Świetne zdjęcia! Uwielbiam taki klimat (:

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  9. I love one-sided sandwiches like those with arugula, salmon and cream cheese! Haha it kind of defeats the purpose of being a sandwich, I know.

    Grabbing some crackers and cream cheese now, this made me hungry :D

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  10. pyszne zdjęcia!
    klimat bloga przyciąga:)

    m.

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  11. Will this be a recurring series? Umami tales is such a great name! :) it is two thirty in the morning here and I was already hungry before seeing your photographs but now I am absolutely starving!

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  12. yummy! good luck with cooking!

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  13. This looks so good! And I loved reading about the word umami, I always find the definition of words like that really interesting. :)
    the earth through a lens

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  14. Mmmm, these are scrumptious! If these were prints, I would definitely be tempted to chew on them :)

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  15. I don't know why I never read this particular post, probably missed it on my feed somehow, but it is as if I'm looking at my own menu... Student life eh? Although, you have to try a toast with salmon and avocado or just a toast with a little bit of butter and avocado- they're my go-to quick meal and asjjfhghlk I'm obsessed! And now at the beginning of the semester I have a tiny bit of time to cook and it's so nice to break out of the pasta/toast routine for a while :D

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  16. You need to teach me how to use light like that!! Wow food photography is definitely on my to do list! Amazing post

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