My colleague Hana Dethlefsen is a Japanese cooking instructor, and is launching a Japanese home-cooking cookbook. She is intent on busting the myth that Japanese cooking is complicated and difficult, and has made it her mission to produce a cookbook that will get you (and me) cooking healthy, delicious and authentic Japanese food with minimal fuss….
Author: K Lee
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For the Love of Sourdough: Take 1
I came across a wonderful volunteer at my workplace who found out I write a food blog. She asked if I wanted a sourdough starter. Of course I’ve been looking for a sourdough starter for a while and I was ready to take care of one. Her sourdough starter was a Carl Griffith 1847 Oregan…
Cooking without recipes: Chili a la Kristin
My favourite thing to do is cook without recipes. My sister knows when I cook, I either don’t use the recipe, or I do my own thing. I decided today that I wanted to make was chili! To start any chili or anything with beans, especially if you are using dried beans, is to soak…
Nerdy 30 Minute Buns
It was close to the day before the big Alcan DragonBoat Festival in Vancouver (close… I mean the day before) and I wanted to surprise my team with some snacks. I decided they had to be nerdy and awesome. About 4 years ago, I joined a dragonboat team called DragonBoat Z. It was an amazing…
Almond Cupcakes All Jammed Up
I love this simple vanilla almond cupcake. Its a great moist cupcake that you can add different icing flavours to make it unique. I decided to make the icing with some jam I recently made to make it a jam cream cheese frosting. Prep the ingredients. Remember to take out the eggs, butter and shift…
Snickerdoodles
Snickerdoodles are fun cookies to make and to eat. They are a type of drop cookie that is rolled in cinnamon and sugar. I tried this for the first time and now its one of my favourites. First mix the sugar and butter. When the butter and sugar mixture has turned a nice golden colour,…
Mixed Berry Apple Jam!! Its jammed full of goodness.
Making jam is something I became addicted to. I love how each jam recipe turns out different and how many different ways I can use jam. I’ve used homemade jams on toast, baking and as gifts but there are so many other ways to use it as well. The nice thing with homemade jam is…
Coconut Rum Cupcakes
This is a must have for coconut lovers!! Coconut rum brings another level to the coconut flavour. Choose your favourite coconut rum and bake away! Begin by beating softened butter and slowly adding brown sugar. You want to combine the brown sugar until it becomes a light brown and the majority of the sugar has…
Rock that Almond Roca!!
Warning!!! After reading this post, you may not want to eat Almond Roca ever again (ok well you may not want to eat the whole batch of Almond Roca). Almond Roca basically consists of sugar and butter with a little bit of almond and chocolate. Almond Roca can be a bit tricky to do on…
Yummy Flourless Cupcakes!!
My aunt has celiac disease, a disease that affects the small intestine. Gluten damages the small intestines and that is why celiacs go on a gluten-free diet. A couple of years ago, when my aunt discovered she was celiac, her life changed. She had to restrict many things out of her diet such as cakes,…
EAT it NOW or EAT it LATER 