One year in Toyohashi! It has been a great year for the family. So many blessings. So many friends. So many opportunities. Ken begins his last year in preschool while Kaye will hopefully begin her first year in October. Rad goes to a new journey in his career and while I will still be in [...]
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3 Apr
Fry Pan Steamed Cake
Spring break is nearly over and I just had to post at least one before work starts again. So all those free time in school were spent mostly behind my desk pretending to be busy or holed up in the library browsing on recipe books. I have been baking almost every other day for school [...]
5 Mar
Amazake
One rainy and chilly winter day in one of my schools, the principal asked me if I would like some Amazake. Naturally I didn’t know what it was and the only thing that my ears caught was the word “sake” which is of course, wine or alcohol and thus, made me wonder how come she [...]
2 Feb
Choco Fondant
Rad and I used to binge on Beard Papa’s choco fondant. It costs 200 yen a piece and despite the high-calorie content, one was never enough for me. So, when Ken asked me to let him bake again, I showed him a picture of a choco fondant and he said “yes” right away. We used [...]
21 Jan
Don’t Do This At Home (The Bread Pudding Disaster)
Still high from my first pudding success, I ventured to try another one. I still have a lot of bread and some pineapple chunks left and Rad just came home with a lot of bananas. So this time, I thought I would include the bananas in the pudding. It works on cakes so it must [...]
20 Jan
Bread Pudding
I came home yesterday itching to make something. I couldn’t go out and shop because I promised myself not to buy more food unless those in the fridge or pantry are consumed. Rad asked me to buy soft bread loaf for Ken though because he likes it with peanut butter. I usually buy 2 kinds- [...]
19 Jan
Brownies
Eversince New Year’s Eve, Ken and I have been baking with chocolate everyday. Perhaps this is even the reason why he is so fired up and won’t sleep till it’s very late. We recently baked brownies. I have baked brownies in the past and have experienced using the ready-mix, other’s recipes and from scratch some of [...]
18 Jan
Chocolate Muffins
More than 2 years ago, Rad and I went to Bagel and Bagel to buy, well, bagels, and on a whim, I added their chocolate-pineapple muffin. I sooo loved that muffin that the memory of it still lingers. I have been experimenting and researching and trying other recipes since. Yesterday, I tried yet another and [...]
2 Jan
Hello 2012! (Gateau Chocolat)
So I bid goodbye to 2011 with lots of culinary experiences but a few post about them. It has been a busy year for me and family. It should be a busier year for us again as we enter 2012 with more plans, resolutions, hopes, and goals. Our plans to go back to the Philippines [...]
11 Aug
>Spring and Strawberries and Toyohashi’s Morning Fair
> After 6 months in Fuji City, we moved to Toyohashi City last March 28. Although we loved our charming rural neighborhood and our friends there, the convenience and flatlands of Toyohashi were most welcomed. In complete contrast to Hina, we are now at the center of the city where everything is accessible by just [...]
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