Third year doing this Star Wars Day kitchen tradition of food puns and I’m running out of ideas. Wanted some “Chewy” chocolate coconut macaroons and ended up with these ugly-as-sin Wookie cookies…
I’m at the tail end of my trip to Japan. This is only one of many, many, many cool food-establishments I wanted to blog about: When you have friends who would use “send noodz” as a sext, trust their recommendations on where to go for ramen. Spontaneously jumped off the Shinkansen before my destination,… Continue reading Send Noodz
The spirit of Osaka, Japan’s food capital, is often describe with the term “kuidaore” – to eat oneself into total ruin. For this glutton, it wasn’t enough to just gorge on all the great local eats. I wanted to find out how to make them. Here are some cool things I learned from this cooking… Continue reading Kuidaore
No, this blog title is not a sign that I have gone insane (there is plenty of other evidence of that). I’m currently in Japan. I know it’s 420 but marijuana is a serious offence here. The Hakone Kowakien Yunessun, however, is a nifty bath house with baths of upper and downer beverages of your choice: coffee,… Continue reading What’s your favourite beverage to bathe in?
At week 4 of the project, ramen was bound to make an appearance. But instead of defaulting to Nissin, or worse, Mr. Noodle, I wanted to do some freezer carcass-clearing and attempt a tonkatsu broth without spending 60 hours cooking by using a few weekend tricks. Trick 1: Be a bonehead I didn’t want… Continue reading Food Hoard Intervention Challenge #6: “Ramen”
I have a 3 kg tub of gochujang. Three. Kilograms. And while I’m douchy enough of a Millennial to use avocado in everything, I’m not quite ready for hipster gochujang facials. Enter medium ground pork, the versatile protein that Mom always told me to keep in the freezer. And is that bacon next to it?… Continue reading Food Hoard Intervention Challenge #5: Bacon Gochujang Bolognese Pho
I dislike most canned fish. I also don’t love cooked salmon. (Yes, that is practically blasphemy growing up in BC.) But in some well-intentioned yet misguided attempt to eat more ω-3 fatty acids on a budget, I came to own a club pack of canned salmon sometime before the free world went belly up… Continue reading Food Hoard Intervention Challenge #4: The Double Citrus Fish Cake-Yaki Onigiri Bastard
Weeks ago I made a batch of matcha milk spread to use up some dairy and to set up for a yet-undecided dessert project. While following some mindless award show coverage today, I had an urge to finally make a mille crepe cake, after having having missed the Lady M popup shop recently. Is it… Continue reading Food Hoard Intervention Challenge #3: Mille Crepe Cake with Matcha Milk Spread
As the youngest of 9 siblings growing up on a small post-war farm in Asia, my dad’s version of “I walked to school in the snow, uphill, both ways” stories often involved eating parts of plants or animals that I would haughtily congratulate myself for composting rather than discarding. In my privileged world, pomelo is… Continue reading Food Hoard Intervention Challenge #2: Oyster Sauce Braised Pomelo Skin with Tobiko
Friends have long joked that there is a supermarket in my kitchen. While I generally used up perishables before each trip out of town, the first grocery run after every return home has fed my inner food hoarding monster more and more as time passed. Coming home this week after being out of town, I… Continue reading Food Hoard Intervention Challenge #1: Instant Pot Butter Chicken
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