This dish came about after I realized I still had 2 whole heads of romaine lettuce, and I was sick of eating a chopped salad. When it comes to lettuce, I had some semi-traumatic experiences as a child since my mom would serve us boiled lettuce. What you don’t think about when it comes to…
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Fidough Lop Cheong Bao
My childhood favorite dim sum order were lop cheong bao, which were a long string of bao dough that was wrapped around Chinese sausage, and steamed. Chinese sausage on its own is oily, sweet, and salty. It is highly seasoned, very flavorful, and works beautifully against the relatively neutral-flavored, but really light and fluffy bao…
Buko Pandan Madeleines
This recipe is me revisiting the gluten-free coconut madeleines I made a few years ago. A while back, my friends, Ann and Brenda, and I went to a Filipino restaurant in North Hollywood, where we had buko pandan. Buko pandan is a Filipino dessert consisting of sweet coconut milk, young coconut flesh, pandan, puffed rice,…
Tayde’s Cake
This recipe is in dedication for Tayde, who was a former patient at St. Jude’s Children Hospital, a childhood cancer(acute lymphoblastic leukemia) survivor, and now a healthy mother of two. Her floral-themed art pieces were featured at the Creator’s Summit at St. Jude, which I was lucky enough to attend(thank you, Shari from my first…
Cyndaquil Manju
Since I had already made recipes for two of the three Pokemon: Legends Arceus starters, I figured, why not round out trio, and make something Cyndaquil-themed? Cyndaquil is based on a hedgehog, but instead of spikes, it has flames on its back! They are really cute, with these stubby legs, beak-like snout, and squinty eyes….
Pumpkin Cream Puffs
This recipe only came about because my friend Naama gave me a squash that was grown by her friend. Squash could refer to a lot of things, but in this case, think like a butternut or kabocha squash, so basically a pumpkin. I figured since the flavor of it was so sweet, it would work…
Rainbow dango(suama)
So I was brainstorming different rainbow desserts for Pride this year, and I literally came up with the idea to do these when I was walking through my local Japanese grocery store(which I frequent a lot these days), and stumbled upon Fugetsu-Do‘s rainbow dango, also called suama. For those unfamiliar, Fugetsu-Do is a highly popular…
Yo-Yo- Tsuri: a plated dessert
When I was conceptualizing this dessert, I was mostly just focusing on what things come to mind when I think of the summer. In this case, I remembered Omasturi(お祭) which is a festival in Japan where they celebrate the village gods(御神輿) with games and other celebrations. One such game was where you fish for water…
Hikari: a petit gateau
I’m basically starting a new pet project where I’m making desserts inspired by the many songs from the Kingdom Hearts franchise, specifically, Utada Hikaru’s songs. She has so many theme songs from the series that I thought it would be a fun way for me to tackle some new aesthetics, flavors, and combinations in desserts…
Amber Sky: a mirror glaze cake
So this dessert came about because my friend Ann gave me a TON of really, really ripe persimmons. I haven’t made a proper mirror glaze cake for a while, so I really wanted to do another one and capture the essence of fall. Persimmons, for those of you who have never had one before, kind…
Forest of de-lights: a layer cake
I really wanted to make a cake similar to a Black Forest cake, but when I was rummaging through my pantry, I realized that I just had a ton of bananas lying around. So I looked through my other ingredients, and also saw coconut. From there, I was just thinking about maybe doing something inspired…
The Kitchen Garden: a plated dish
I still remember back in 2013, watching MasterChef UK, and being mystified by one particular dish. It was a rabbit salad dish prepared by a solicitor named Rukmini, who was known for her gorgeous plating and really delicious flavors. Back then, I really had no idea what it meant to make a plate look whimsical…
Dandelion: a petit gateau
When I hear the word “dandelion”, the first thing I think about, being the weebu hipster baker that I am, is Kingdom Hearts Union Cross. I’m not even going to bother talking more about what the term means in that context because I’m a lazy betch, and also, because this is a food blog, not…
Lemon roll cake
About a year ago, I made this very same cake….only for my dad to eat the whole goddamn thing before I could decorate or even photograph it. So you can imagine that the salt was real. Flashforward a year, and I decided to give it another go. Only this time, I made sure to finish…
Semolina knafeh with glazed figs
I really wanted to make knafeh when I saw it in My Kitchen Rules, where Sonya and Hadil, two Jordanian women who were kicked off the show because they got into a fight with another team, prepared it for their instant restaurant. Knafeh is a Middle Eastern cheesecake essentially, soaked with a beautiful rose flavored…
Meyer lemon Mimosa cake
When I was doing research on Lady M (I need to better understand my enemy to spite them) I came across a cake that was called a Mimosa cake. It was this cake covered in cubes, and it was vanilla flavored. Now, I was expecting champagne and oranges, so I was really disappointed at first….
Golden Milk-Tofu Ice Cream with Activated Charcoal-Tofu “Sugar” Cone
I only ever heard about golden milk when I went with my sister to Pressed Juicery and was introduced to a sample shot of it there. I heard that it had a lot of great health benefits, including boosting your immune system, clarifying your skin, blood purifying, being a liver tonic, having anticancer properties, and…
Orange-chocolate sables with crystalized orange peels
Sometimes, I love to have tea parties by myself, of course. Yeah, judge me, bitches, I don’t give a shit what you think this whole interest probably started because I love the idea of being able to sit around and eat cakes and cookies and it was reinforced with all of the times I went to…
Freddy's Harajuku 