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Sunday Brunch: Easy Roast Beef and Brie Puff Pastry Breakfast Tarts Recipe
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....
Cookies for Santa: The Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
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...
Sunday Brunch: Christmas Morning Coconut French Toast Recipe
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...
Friday Links: 12.19.2014
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...
Sweet Side Dish: Holiday Quinoa Recipe
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...
Treats to Make and Gift: a Recipe Round-Up
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...
Party in a Jar: Mini Sriracha Chicken Pot Pies Recipe
If you’re a fan of food blogs and you don’t live under a rock, you probably know Molly, the gorgeously happy voice behind My Name is Yeh. I had the pleasure of meeting Molly (and being her date!) in...
Rice Cooker Pancake
If you wander around Tokyo, you’ll start to notice random line ups outside restaurants. People might be politely queuing for that ultimate bowl of ramen, a bag of artisanal popcorn, or (and this is the most likely) a plate...
Vegan(!) Creamy Corn Soup Recipe
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...
Friday Links: 12.12.2014
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,...
Matcha Coconut Macaroons Recipe: Holiday Cookies with a Twist
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...
Bun Bo Hue Recipe: The Spicy Vietnamese Noodle Soup You Never Knew You Loved
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,...