Lil’ bun and I decided to make some delicious edamame hummus to go with our chips. Not only are they fun to shell and eat as a snack, they’re also a (neglected) superfood!
Snack
Okonomiyaki: Japanese pancake (made 2 ways)
Okonomiyaki is a Japanese pancake made similarly to how we would make our pancakes and omlettes…actually come to think of it, they’re a little like making an omelette with pancake batter. Anyways, okonomiyaki generally has a batter base made up of flour, dashi broth, eggs and shredded cabbage but toppings like seafood, thinly sliced meat, […]
Ode to the gac fruit – glutinous rice dessert
As adventurous as we are…today we probably got one of the oddest fruits ever…the gac fruit, a vietnamese fruit. It’s supposed to have 10x more carotenoids than carrots! Yay phytonutrients! Well without further ado, this is how it looks like. It’s about the size of a papaya and while it has spikes on the outside, […]
Japanese red bean pancakes – DORAYAKI (:
Oh how I adore eating Japanese baked goods…if you don’t believe me you can always ask brother deer or Tyi, and they would ensure you that during the time we were in Japan I would walk into every bakery I could. When I came across this dorayaki recipe I couldn’t resist!
Honey roasted almonds
Snack-ity snack snack time! Lil’ bun and I decided to try to add a bit of flare to our boring old almonds…and we ended up coming across this recipe! Normally we make our roasted almonds with savory spices, but this time, we decided to go sweet. That’s why we decided to make these Honey roasted […]