Happy post-holidays friends – I hope everyone had a good one! Before we move onto the new recipe, I’m going to quickly talk about some pastry machinery I had the pleasure of being shown over the short holiday period.…
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Usually I feel a little weird saying “the best.” I hear it/see it a lot, but I tend to reserve the best for, well, the best. Inevitably, this means I don’t use “the best” as a modifier very often. That being…
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Every time Sunday comes around I always ask myself, where the heck did the week go?! Is it me or does everyone feel that the older you get, the faster time seems to pass by? As a kid, the…
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Woah! Christmas is coming up fast! It’s the last Friday before the big day – are you guys ready? It’s just me and Mike in Tokyo so we’re planning on a DIY takoyaki party on Christmas Eve and a traditional…
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For me, it’s always about the sides. I could make a meal out of side dishes and to be honest, I have, many times. This Christmas quinoa salad has what I think of as wintertime flavours: dried cranberries, crispy…
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Come Christmas, I’m all about the baked goods, all the time. So just in case you’re not sure what you’re going to bake this year, I have a quick little round up from my archives for…
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Sometimes I see little kids at the mall with their parents and it brings me right back to when my mom used to take me along with her to run …
This spicy, crispy, cheesy smash green chile cheeseburger is probably the best you’ll ever eat. The cheese is melt-y and almost queso-y, the fire roasted hatch green chiles are fire, and …
It's SO FLUFFY!! I must've said that more than a million times while eating pancakes in Japan. Pancakes are my passion. Well, they aren't really, to be honest, but I …
I love baba ganoush. It's smoky, rich, creamy, and vegan to boot. I love it with crispy pitas and I love with soft pitas – I just love it. What …
I’m a huge soup fan. Chunky, smooth, creamy, or noodle-y, come wintertime, I want all the soups, all the time. Thankfully, not all soups take hours to make. This corn soup, thickened with a bit of tofu and seasoned…
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I am so incredibly obsessed with Tokyo’s pastry game. It seems like everywhere I go I see something I want to eat. The cake above, Sadaharu Aoki’s Matcha Adzuki has delicious layers of matcha buttercream, dark chocolate genoise,…
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Christmas time means cookies and around these parts, Christmas cookies most definitely mean macaroons. No, I don’t mean those delicate, finicky French macaron – I mean crisp and coconutty haystacks. A good coconut macaroon is a delicious…
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Any good cook will tell you that soups are a labour of love. Generally, they take time and a little bit of effort, but like any thing that is worth waiting for, they are absolutely heartwarming. Soups, especially noodle soups,…
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