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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A Happy New Year!

I would love to say, “Happy New Year” to everyone. My new year resolution: update my blog regularly. I just posted my journal that went back to six months ago at once. I think it’s kind of ruin the whole purpose of easy blog system if I update like this. So, here I am still [...]

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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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Green Bean Casserole

Here is one of my favorite side dishes, Green Bean Casserole. The recipe is originally from Cook’s Illustrated as I mentioned in my Kitchen Notes. I wanted to make it a little bit more creamy and less oily, so I added sour cream and used 1/3 of fried onions for topping. I have made this dish [...]

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