• Vegetables

    Gobō & Carrot Salad with Creamy Sesame Dressing

    Using Frozen Sliced Gobō (Burdock Root), this popular Japanese salad is easy to make. Creamy Sesame Dressing is available from many supermarkets in Melbourne where I live. If you have a bottle, you may wish to use it. If you make it, and I recommend to make it less sour for this salad. Makes 4 …

  • Beef Spaghetti & Pasta

    Beef & Onion Spaghetti

    This dish can be cooked in 10 minutes. If you have thinly sliced Beef, which is available from Asian grocery stores and some supermarkets, it is quicker and easier as you only need to slice Onion and Garlic. Season the dish as you like, but I like to use Soy Sauce. Makes 1 Serving Ingredients …

  • Baked & Fried Sweets

    Sour Cream Pound Cake

    When I added the leftover Sour Cream to my ‘Basic Pound Cake’, I ended up adding a lot of more Flour to get the right texture. Today I reduced the amount of Butter. I added Blueberries to this cake. It is optional, but Berries and Cherries are a nice addition to this cake. Cake Tin …

  • Dough Spaghetti & Pasta

    Pumpkin Gnocchi

    To make good Pumpkin Gnocchi, you need to use a drier variety Pumpkin. When mashed Pumpkin contains more water, you would need to add more Flour, and the texture of Gnocchi changes, often turns tough. Dry and powdery Japanese Pumpkin (Kuri Kabocha) is ideal for Pumpkin Gnocchi, but I can’t have it here in Melbourne. …

  • Beef Mazegohan

    Beef & Gobō Mazegohan

    Gobō (Burdock Root) is a very popular vegetable in Japan, but it is IMPOSSIBLE to find where I live. A few days ago, I went to a local Korean grocery store as they sell some Japanese food as well, and I found Frozen Sliced Gobō. I bought a bag and cooked this rice dish I …

  • Baked & Fried Sweets

    Rice Cooker Cheesecake with Biscuit Base

    My ‘Rice Cooker Cheesecake’ is delicious but it doesn’t look good as Rice Cooker Cakes are supposed to be flipped over. Today I tried to make it look good and I added Biscuit Base as well. I was quite thrilled with the result. No one would think this was cooked in rice cooker. Makes I …

  • Beef Curry Pork Vegetables

    Mince & Cabbage Curry Stew

    This is a quick & easy Mince dish that is similar to my ‘Stir-fried Pork Mince & Cabbage with Spicy Miso Sauce’, but it is much easier. Today I used Pork Mince, but Beef Mince is also nice. Basically I stewed Mince, Cabbage and Onion in curry flavoured soup. Enjoy it with freshly cooked Rice. …

  • Fish

    Fried White Fish with Grated Daikon & Ponzu

    ‘大根おろし’ (Daikon Oroshi) is the Japanese name for finely grated Daikon (White Radish). It is often used as a sauce with ‘Ponzu’ OR Soy Sauce. ‘Beef Steak With Grated Daikon & Ponzu’ is just an example. This dish is very similar to ‘Fried White Fish with Spicy Ponzu Sauce’, but today I added grated Daikon. …

  • Baked & Fried Rice Chicken

    Lasagna Inspired Chicken Doria

    This Doria tastes like Lasagna. It is super easy to cook if you have Cooked Rice. White Sauce (Béchamel Sauce) is also easy if you have microwave. Doria is my family’s favourite rice dish. Find more Doria recipes. Makes 4 Servings Ingredients 500g Chicken Thigh Fillets *cut into bite-size pieces1 Onion *finely chopped1 clove Garlic …

  • Beef Pork

    Meatballs with Sour Cream Gravy

    The other day I came across a photo of IKEA Meatball dish, that looked so good and I wanted to taste it. It is much quicker and easier for me to make it from scratch than driving to the closest IKEA store. I don’t know if my dish tastes similar to the one I saw …

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