We had some friends over for dinner this weekend and considering we are trying to refine our Japanese cooking skills, we decided to have a Japanese themed dinner. We started off our morning gathering all of our ingredients. One of the dishes we wanted to …
It’s peach season!! Meaning peaches are the sweetest and most cost effective during this time of year 🙂 Not having gone as crazy last year as buying a giant basket of peaches from the farmer’s market where we used it to make our Summer Peach …
Continuing with my baking weekend, the other recipe I wanted to try in my cookbook was the Mixed Berry Pavlova recipe. There was a lot of fail on my part that went into making this dish. First, I thought we had all the ingredients we …
I’ve been looking forward to this weekend for quite some time now. It’s the first weekend in a while where I don’t have any family/friend commitments which means I finally have time to bake – Yay!! Don’t get me wrong, I love my family and …
If you’ve been following our blog for some time now, you’ll know we are pretty into Japanese food and have experimented quite a bit with Japanese cooking. Matcha has been all the craze for the longest time but recently, a new type of Japanese tea …
Caprese salad is my guilty pleasure. Perhaps it’s because I really don’t know what else I can do with all the fresh basil we’ve been growing in our garden other than making pasta sauce but this dish is pretty solid. I’ve been making it so …
Father’s day is coming up in a couple of weeks and I am scrambling to figure out how to celebrate with my dad. My parents hate celebrating mother’s day/father’s day on the actual weekend because restaurants are always super busy and service is generally not …
A few weeks ago, I was scrolling through my Facebook newsfeed when I stumbled across one of those short cooking/baking tutorial videos. I generally don’t pay too much attention to those videos but that video caught my eye because the Hydrangea cupcake they were making …
I love Ochazuke… Maybe it’s because I’m always cold regardless of the season but I love how this dish always warms me up. It’s such a simple dish but it tastes so good. For those of you that’s not familiar with Ochazuke, it is a …
Chirashi bowls have become a thing in our household now. Whenever we want to make Japanese food, our default answer is to make Chirashi. I guess the reason we tend to default to this is because: a) We’ve found a pretty good sushi rice recipe …
