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Crepe Cake with Blueberry Cream [An Unplanned Dessert]

   Lighting is so bad for my recent photographs, my kitchen is not bright enough as it is always under the "shade" of tall building next door. With little ones around, my model will be gone in no time...

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Coffee Jelly [A Dessert For Summer]

  I noticed that many hotels and restaurants in Japan serve coffee jelly as dessert. Some serve jelly set in a small bowl and other serve cubed jelly in dessert bowl, it is usually serve with syrup and...

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Hokkaido Milk Loaf [I Baked It, At Last!]

  I heard so much about Hokkaido milk loaf before moving to Japan, always wanted to bake one myself. At last, I baked one few weeks ago. As its name suggests, Hokkaido milk loaf is made with milk from...

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Sake No Shiso Maki Age [鮭のしそ巻き揚げ]

When I found cheap salted salmon (cured salmon) at the supermarket the other day, I thought of this dish straight away. I am not sure if I should categorize it as one type of tempura, it is a small...

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Warabi Mochi [Popular Summer Dessert]

  Warabi Mochi (わらび餅/蕨餅) is one of the popular summer desserts in Kansai area of Japan. Unlike other mochi, it is made with starch and serve chilled with kinako (toasted soy bean flour) and black sugar...

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Apple Fritter [Y3K Issue No. 62]

  In Malaysia, it is very common to find banana fritter (fried banana) but not apple fritter (炸苹果). From my understanding, apple fritter is more common in western countries where apple is abundant....

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Japanese Home Cooks [Give-Away Event / 送礼咯!]

I am giving away two copies of my Japanese Home Cooks, a bilingual (Chinese and English) cookbook contains 65 Japanese home cook recipes first published in April 2012. It is available in Malaysia,...

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Sesame-Ginger Eringi Mushroom Stir-Fry [Y3K Recipes Issue No. 63]

  This stir-fried eringi mushroom (杏鮑菇/King Trumpet Mushroom) dish is really a quick and easy vegan dish. I always used the combination of sesame oil and ginger in meat dishes but it goes very well...

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Mentaiko Spaghetti [Winners Of Japanese Home Cooks]

  Mentaiko (明太子) is marinated pollock roe, a common ingredient in Japanese cuisine. It is available in almost all supermarkets as well as shopping channels on TV. This mentaiko spaghetti is a popular...

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Fried Rice With Corned Beef [College Memory / Y3K Recipes Issue No. 65]

I was once an international student in a college, with another three international students from Philippine and Taiwan in my class. However, my class were made up of local students with multicultural...

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Obento For Him [Bento Making Life Resumed]

  This is second obentou (packed-meal) I prepared for my hubby after a month long of summer holiday. Autumn has just arrived in Japan, I am still cooking with summer ingredients. Weather wise, still...

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Radiatori With Meatball And Cheesey Cream Mushroom Sauce

  After more than six months here, I started venturing outside neighborhood moving out of my comfort zone a little. I like to drop-by at supermarket or grocery shop that I have not been to. Awhile ago,...

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Pan-Fried Fish With Tomato Basil [Gift From The Sea]

I craved for this last few days, cooked it yesterday at last. Actually, I am trying to eat more fish in healthy way, to increase my protein intake so that I will consume less carbohydrate. This dish...

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Blueberry Cake [So Soft And Moist]

For some reasons, I have not been baking for awhile. Summer is ideal for bread baking but I rarely baked last summer, in response to the city office's setsuden (節電/electricity saving) campaign. Each...

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Chestnut Rice [秋の栗ご飯]

  I cooked chestnut rice in Japan for the first time using Japanese ingredients. I do see the differences between the chestnut rice I cooked in Malaysia and in Japan, especially the texture of rice. I...

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Tamago Yaki II [Okra Obsession]

My dear hubby is now obsess with okra, extremely. He would have okra for three meals if possible. Many people dislike the sticky stuff but he LOVES it. Currently, he usually have 2 RAW okras for...

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Chicken-Vegetable Soup [Indian Style]

  Whenever I try to reduce my weight, I cook mixed vegetable soup with some chicken breast meat. And, I have it the whole day as main or side dish. Instead of having the same soup often, I sometimes...

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Stuffed Clams [Gift From The Nature]

This is something I recreated from a recipe on a magazine I flipped through awhile ago. The combination of these two main ingredients - minced pork and fresh clams, was just superb. I did not use much...

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Pickled Green Chili [A Super Hot Condiment]

My Korean chili plant is very productive, harvested about 30 chilies last week and now still have at least 30 on the tree now. This chili is so hot/spicy that I can only take a small slice in a time...

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鯛焼き [Taikayi - Not That Fishy Grilled Fish]

I was looking for a sandwich maker earlier and fond on a particular model that I found online. It is available in the market for awhile but a new generation was launched just last month. The only...

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