In December,I am more closely looking at I Love Macarons by Hisako Ogita. I first read about macarons when I was devouring food blogs back in university, around 2006/2007. They seemed to be a mysterious, legendary delicacy that I had no hopes of finding in the small university town of Guelph. Fast forward to today, you […]
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Matcha Swiss Roll Birthday Cake
I have been baking my own birthday cakes since I was about 13 years old, and in the past several years I have insisted on making birthday cakes for my family too. This year I made Tomiko a White Chocolate Raspberry Layer Cake and I made our brother Karlos a Chocolate Turtle Layer Cake, and I […]
Matcha White Hot Chocolate
Ryan and I used to go to a crepe restaurant in Toronto called Chococrepe. Obviously they served crepes (both sweet and savoury, and all delicious), but they also served amazing hot chocolate. You could get either dark, milk, or white hot chocolate made with either cream or milk (or 50-50), and you could get it plain, […]
Furikake on Everything!
When I was a kid, we had a goldfish. Even though I wanted a cuddly, furry pet, our parents started us off with a goldfish. And of course, we would have to feed fish food to our goldfish. Fish food, in case you haven’t seen it before, is generally a can of flat fish […]
Chinese Ginger Green Onion Sauce
For the longest time, I thought this was a Japanese condiment. My Gichan (grandfather) would prepare it, my mom would make it, and now Tomiko and I make it. My cousins on the Japanese side of our family also make it, so I thought it was only natural that it was Japanese. I actually learned about […]