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Failed Recipe: Lemon Mochi Doughnut

Nov27

I’ve been super busy this week preparing for our bake sale.  I was pretty excited to do two recipes.  First was a good standby, chichi dango.  I’ve made it before and it’s a great sell for any bake sale.  I played around with the colors and made it purple, pink and white.  Was really cute.  Well sort of.  I was told that maybe I should put white in the middle next time since the purple and pink kind of blended together.  Then, since chichi dango is super sticky, I had to cover it in potato starch.  Well the potato starch then masked the colors even more.  It’s okay, the taste was great so I’m fine.

My next recipe was this lemon mochi doughnut recipe I found online.  Sounds intriguing right?  Well as you can judge from this blog title, misery follows:

131127-01Cute yah?  I got a great pan as a gift a while back and finally got to use it.  Aren’t they cute?

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Recipe: Pumpkin Cinnamon Roll Sheet Cake

Nov16

Happy Halloween…2 weeks ago!  Nah, it’s okay.  It’s still autumn so this dessert still works!  Our division held a Halloween party which included an autumn dessert contest.  As the representative for my office, I took on the challenge and WON!  Yay!  Okay so there were only two desserts entered…but a win is a win.  I shall take it.  I’m not used to eating too many autumn desserts but I think this one came out pretty nice!  Check out the pictures and the recipe inside this post!

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Let the oozy pumpkin goodness lure you in…

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Recipe: Hawaiian Style Breakfast Casserole

Nov4

Anytime we have a coffee hour at work – people tend to bring all the same types of foods.  Either pastries or fruits.  I’m a bigger fan of savory foods so when I have to bring something – I always try to find something salty to bring!  One day, I spotted these portuguese sausage slices in Costco made exclusively for musubis and an idea clicked in my head.  Here’s what came of it…

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Hawaiian Style Breakfast Casserole – this dish was a complete winner at the pot luck.  I think people enjoyed having something salty to eat in a sea of pastries.  So easy yet so delicious.  I’ll include my recipe in this post.  🙂

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Homemade Sushi Rolls

Oct26

This is the first time I made legit sushi rolls.  This is something Gulick has that I’ve always liked.  It’s just a simple tuna roll with furikake and daikon.  So instead of paying Gulick money for part of a roll, why not make my own and eat as much as I want (though I shouldn’t)?  Well here are the results of me rolling my own!

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Recipe: Lilikoi Chiffon Squares

Oct23

My long favorite lilikoi chiffon squares!  I can’t believe how long this post was on my old blog.  Even this one has 20+ pictures!  And in the past I didn’t have wordpress so I had to do codes and two different image sizes (thumbnails and full picture!).  Anyway, this recipe is definitely worth posting!  It takes a lot of effort but is soooo worth it.  Warning, graphic heavy post!!

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Two sticks of butter.  Game on.

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Recipe: Fresh Mochi

Oct15

Yay.  I finally made some sweets this past week.  I wanted to make a treat for a colleague who was leaving – turns out he doesn’t even like mochi.  Hahaha well I wasn’t offended, not everyone likes mochi.  I got to share the mochi with coworkers and family and they all seemed to like it!  I made two types of mochi, a lilikoi mochi and a strawberry milk mochi.  It’s a plus and a minus that when I make common recipes that I like to make it in a way that isn’t served a lot.  That’s how I came to these two – also, I LOVE lilikoi.  The downfall is that I could easily fail at making uncommon recipes but luckily these came out okay!

131015-02Lilikoi Mochi ready for the oven…

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Homemade Ahi Poke

Jun4

I have never made ahi poke before, I leave that to the professionals.  For this particular post, I decided to make a rendition of an ahi poke dish I tried in a restaurant.  I can’t remember where I tried this poke, but if anyone recalls where it might be – please let me know.  This ahi poke is very light on seasoning, if you’ve had ahi poke in Hawaii – I think you see that a lot of times they can be pretty saucy; like me.  😛

Anyhow, for this dish – the seasoning is minimal.  I don’t have the exact ingredients I used but I do remember creating a ginger infused oil for this dish.  Then I added some onions, cucumbers, tomatoes, ahi and probably just a touch of soy and salt.  I even plated it…too sad that I don’t remember what’s in it!

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Yum.  Can someone invest money for me to run a restaurant?  Or a food truck?  Anyone?

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Japanese Udon Salad

Jun2

One of my favorite go-to recipes is this Japanese Udon Salad.  I based this recipe off of a salad I tried from Your Kitchen.  Unfortunately, I think they stopped making this salad so it’s a good thing I make this myself!  It is very easy to make, here are the ingredients:

Japanese Udon Salad Toppings!

Japanese Udon Salad Toppings!

Sliced Cherry Tomatoes

Sliced Cherry Tomatoes

Japanese Cucumbers, sliced and de-seeded

Japanese Cucumbers, sliced and de-seeded

Sliced Aburage - parboiled

Sliced Aburage – parboiled

Corn - I used canned but you are more than welcome to use fresh!

Corn – I used canned but you are more than welcome to use fresh!

Wakame

Wakame

Finished Product!

Finished Product!

I buy the fresh packaged udon noodles in the refrigerator section of the asian supermarket and cook them for about 1-2 minutes and drain them.  Then I toss all the toppings and the udon noodles with a creamy sesame dressing.  I insist on using only Kewpie Sesame Dressing.  I find that they make the best dressing, they sell it in Don Quijote and Nijiya Market but is a bit pricey.  Though it does go on sale for about $4.00 at Don Quijote from time to time.  Right before serving, I add cilantro leaves to top off the salad.  It’s a small addition but makes such a great difference.  I hope you get to try this recipe and let me know what you think!  It’s perfect for the summer – cool and refreshing!

If you ever get out to Japan, I highly suggest getting the huge bottle of Kewpie Dressing!  It is so cheap and totally worth my suitcase space/weight.

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