Nagahama Neru:...and she can cook, too

Is there nothing she can't do? It turns out now that in high school, Neru got an honorable mention in a cooking contest in Nagasaki that was open to adults.

The contest was for cooking based on ingredients from the Nagasaki area, and was called the "Delicious Nagasaki Recipe Contest." 

Neru's recipe was for "Nagasaki BBQ You Can Eat With Your Hands," and was a cornet-folded crepe with a filling of sliced Japanese beef, sliced kabocha pumpkin grilled with olive oil, a stick of asparagus and half a carrot (both boiled "to keep the flavour"), and a mini-tomato cut in half -- all produced in the Nagasaki area. With chili sauce to taste.


Neru said afterwards that TV cameras were there for the finals and she was nervous and her cooking "was a total failure." But she won an honorable mention anyway. The prizes went to a housewife and someone who worked at a foreign language college. There were apparently also apprentice chefs in the contest.

Neru, who was in the cooking club at school, appeared with an apron over her Nagasaki West High School uniform. The cooking contest and the high-school quiz were both things she did "to make life more fun."

Here's the recipe:

Looks tasty. As long as the kabocha and its skin are soft enough. And the chili sauce on the outside could make it harder to eat by hand. But boiling the carrot sticks with the asparagus would work. And the recipe includes directions for making the crepe with cake flour, potato starch and milk. Maybe it's worth a try....

As you might expect, her recipe was carefully thought out and well written down.

Sources: http://keyakizaka1.blog.jp/archives/11601645.html  http://keyaki46.2chblog.jp/archives/11599228.html