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Pumpkin Pancake (南瓜饼)
Pumpkin pancake is one of my favourite dessert. It can be easily made and stored to be eaten at a later time. While pumpkin is more available in the Autumn, if you are able to buy in year round, you can make this anytime. It has natural sweetness so you don’t need to…
Easy Foolproof Japanese Milk Bread (Shokupan)
In my teen years I refuse to eat anything that was made of white flour. Everything had to be whole wheat. As I got older, I stopped caring about eating everything whole wheat. I started to crave white bread. While I still buy whole grains loafs, once in a while I crave for…
Peach Jam Cookies
While with peach jam, it can be simply used a spread on toast but there is some much you can do with the peach jam. One of the channel I follow, Nebokgom, she made an apple jam filled cookies. I thought to myself I should make peach jam cookie. This recipe for peach…
Easy Homemade Peach Jam
Summer is when a lot of fruits come into season. I always associate watermelon with summer but one of the fruits I always forgets are peaches. Peaches are most abundant in the summer. In order to take advantage of the summer, I decided to make some recipes using peaches. This first recipe I…
Easy Watermelon Kimchi
Summer is almost over (sad face). For me, summer is the abundance of watermelon. When I was young I remember having so many watermelon in the summer time that we were eating a watermelon per week. To this day, I love having watermelon in the summer time. The way I eat it is…
Dorayaki (Red Bean Pancake)
I have another recipe to use the red bean paste. This one is pretty well known dessert from Japan called Dorayaki. It’s basically red bean paste sandwiched between two pancakes. If you know Japanese manga series Doraemon then you know dorayaki is Doraemon’s favourite food! What is Dorayaki? The modern dorayaki originate from…
Ang-Butter Dacquoise
I love watching baking videos, I find it particularly relaxing. There is Korean YouTuber that I watch quite often, which goes by “Nebokgom”. There was one dessert that caught my eye. This was dacquoise, particularly Ang-Butter Dacquoise. This is made with dacquoise cookie with red bean paste and a thick butter slice. I…
Homemade Red Bean Paste (using a rice cooker)
I had been on vacation in UK the last two weeks. It was a much needed break. Now that I’m back, I want to start off with an easy recipe that is a staple for many East Asian desserts. I like making Asian desserts because it’s less sweet for me and it doesn’t…
Easy Make Ahead Pork Wontons
Pork wontons is one of my favourite meals when I’m feeling lazy and don’t want to cook. The great thing about it is that I can freeze ahead of time and just take it out when I want to eat. The wontons are filled with ground pork and spices, and this recipe is…
Braised Pork Belly (hong shao rou）
Hong shao rou is very popular dish in China. This is also one of my favourite dish my mom used to cook for me. I used to love eating pieces of pork belly with boiled eggs. It was definitely one of the dishes that will make me eat a whole bowl of rice…
