I love ube. Ube is a purple yam indigenous to Asia and it’s great for making many desserts with. Souffle pancakes, also called shiawase pancakes, are a very popular breakfast item or snack in Japan, known for their fluffy texture. Combine them together and theoretically, it should be a social media phenomenon. For my recipe,…
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Mascarpone-Cherimoya Sorbet
First up, happy leap year, everyone! This recipe is one of the first ice cream recipes I’ve ever made and it’s a really simple process. Hope you all enjoy! Sorbet or sherbet? Whenever it comes to adding cheese or non-milk or cream dairy products to sorbet bases, nobody can ever give me a straight answer on…
Homemade Na’an Bread
Na’an bread is one of those breads I never paid a lot of attention to initially. It was probably because I just thought it would taste like pita and be flat, dry, and bland. But I was so very wrong. Na’an, while still being a flatbread, has a rich, wholesome mouthfeel to it, a buttery…
Raspberry Harissa
Harissa is a North African spice paste that is used as a condiment for most dishes. Traditionally, it contains dried chilies, olive oil, garlic, coriander, and lemon juice. This version uses Sriracha, an Asian spice paste that already contains chilies and garlic, and combines that with the ingredients used in the authentic harissa blend, as…
(A Semi-traditional) beef noodle soup
So a national dish of my native Taiwan is beef noodle soup. And of course, I’m bastardizing it, because while I am a legal citizen and was born there, I speak less Mandarin than the employees of Panda Express and have less knowledge about Taiwanese traditions and culture than most of the Chinese mainlanders who…
Freddy's Harajuku 