Banana-Date Tea Cake

Banana-Date Tea Cake tastes much better now. Well, this is a typical pound cake and just takes time to get ready to be eaten. So, I decided to upload my “sunken” tea cake to remind myself a failure. I have to remember that I should use all-purpose flour instead of cake flour to make the [...]

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Experience is the Best Teacher

This Fried Rice was successful.
I was pretty excited to try new recipe this morning: Banana-Date Tea Cake. All my bananas were ready to be baked and I had lots of dates in the fridge. This recipe is from Tartine by Elisabeth M. Prueitt and Chad Robertson. This book is nicely organized and well explained. I [...]

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Seeking New Recipes

Here are things that I made yesterday: fried rice with lettuce & black beans; chocolate macarons; sablée cookies. I’m so happy to try this cranberry cookies by Panipop-san. (Panipopo-san’s blog is right here) I actually baked this right after Christmas, but I was too tired to take pictures of them and I needed to find [...]

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Chocolate Macarons

I made macarons for the first time, and it was fun! Since three egg whites were still in the fridge after baking cookies, I had decided to try this French neat sweets. Result? I think it turned out pretty good. But, thing is that I have never eaten “real” macarons (“real” means by “store-bought,” in [...]

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What’s Happening Since June?

 
Events in June: Staying at kennel for the first time! A.A.’s parents invited us to go to the Hells Canyon Dam Tour on the 14th of June, and of course, we couldn’t take Sophie and Misha with us, so we decided to board them at Escape the Crate in Boise for two nights. As you [...]

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Diet – Day 75-116

Since Summer School is over, I have some time to do for myself. Well, I finally decided to update my blog: Diet – Day 75-Day 116. I have lost 22 lb. so far though I cheated a lot. It has been so slow to accomplish my goal and frustrating every single day, but I keep [...]

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Diet

Since school began, it’s been busy and cannot do much for my hobbies lately. Only thing I have been able to continue is probably my diet. My diet has been showing progress little by little. I cheat my diet menu quite often, so I guess I have been losing my weight so slow. I need [...]

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Harusame Salad

I arranged Bacon & Egg Pastries recipe from Cuisine at home, Issue No. 68, pp. 32-33,  and baked Ham & Cheese Pastries. I loved the taste much better than the bacon & egg pastries: light and fluffy. Main vegetables were spinach, tomatoes, potatoes, and cheddar & mozzarella cheese. I boiled cubed potatoes at first and then [...]

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Homemade Lasagna

Here is my favorite lasagna: it’s relatively light and three different kind of cheese (ricotta, mozzarella, parmesan) and meat sauce are layered. I arranged the recipe from Frigo’s Classic Lasagna. I usually make béchamel, but this time used only cheese mixture with sour cream instead. It took less time and tasted lighter. Well, I even [...]

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Tarte aux Poires

A.A. and I didn’t do too much this weekend, but I accomplished some stuff I wanted to do: baking apple pie and tarte aux poires. The last time I baked an apple pie, I didn’t think about decorating apples over the crust. So, I arranged slices of apples a little bit fancier (I think). Also, [...]

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