Archive for April 30th, 2022

  • Baked & Fried Sweets

    Spiced Shortbread Biscuits

    I often bake Cinnamon Crumble. Just Cinnamon Crumble only, without fruit OR cake. Then I realised it is the same thing as Shortbread which is made with Butter, Sugar and Flour. I stared adding other Spices to Cinnamon Crumble dough, and using Brown Sugar instead of White Sugar. The yummy Spiced Crumbles are transformed into …

  • Beef Vegetables

    Scrumptious Beef & Konnyaku (Konjac)

    The other day, someone cooked my ‘Kimpira’ Konnyaku (Konjac) and shared the photo of the dish, and that made me feel very nostalgic because the dish always makes me think about my grandmother. Today I cooked Konnyaku (Konjac) with Beef. The dish has similar flavour to ‘Kimpira’ Konnyaku (Konjac), but more complex. You got to …

  • Bread Dough

    Savoury ‘Aonori’ Doughnuts

    I recently discovered that people in southern Italy make deep-fried dough mixed with seaweed. It looks like Japan’s ‘Isobe-age’ Tempura, that is made with the batter mixed with ‘Aonori’ (Dried Green Laver Flakes). I tried to make Savoury Doughnuts using ‘Aonori’ and it was delicious. I added 1 tablespoon ‘Aonori’ today, and the flavour was …

  • Baked & Fried Sweets

    Baked Yoghurt Cake

    A large amount of Yoghurt was getting old in the fridge and I needed to use it up. I found a Baked Yoghurt Cake recipe on the internet and I tried it. The result was BAD. The cake looked like Baked Cheesecake but it didn’t taste good at all. I tried another recipe and I …