Steamed bread Today, I tried making steamed egg muffins using baking soda. When they were done, I realized I had added too much soy milk halfway through, which caused the muffins to shrink significantly. When I broke one open, the top was also a bit damp, indicating that too much moisture prevents them from becoming fluffy […]
Steamed bread Today, I tried making steamed cheese bread. Since I didn't have baking powder, I used baking soda (half the amount of baking powder). The finished product was too puffy because I used too much baking soda. The taste and texture were fluffy steamed cheese bread […]
Dishes Today, I tried making minestrone using canned sardines. Unfortunately, the finished dish still had a fishy smell. I tried to suppress the fishiness using sake and red wine, but it didn't work out. I thought the tomatoes and red wine would thoroughly cover it, but they didn't. […]
Dishes Today, I tried making tsukudani (simmered pork) with a tandoori chicken spice mix. As it simmered, the aroma of spices filled the air. The finished dish had a subtle curry flavor. Since it's tsukudani, the soy sauce flavor is […]
Jelly Today, I tried making coffee agar-agar using red-colored agar-agar. The finished product turned out to be a color similar to grape juice, with the black of the coffee and the red of the agar-agar mixing together. The taste was a light coffee jelly with modest sweetness […]
Pound cake Today, I tried making a raisin pound cake with extra soy milk, hoping it would make the batter a bit moister. The result was good in that the batter was moist, but unfortunately, the raisins tended to sink to the bottom […]
Dishes Today, aiming for a low-calorie meal, I tried adding glass noodles to my pork shigureni. I thought the glass noodles might lose their shape when finished, but they held up surprisingly well. I added the glass noodles about 20 minutes after starting to simmer the dish […]
Dishes Today, I tried making tsukudani using only pork. For seasoning, I added sansho pepper. The finished product turned out quite spicy. I wonder if the sansho pepper made the flavor too strong, or if it was because I didn't add any vegetables, leading to too much seasoning […]
Dishes Today, I tried making pork shigure-ni with burdock root, konjac, and onion. The finished dish had a sweet and savory flavor, but perhaps because I omitted 50g of mirin, the salty taste was more prominent. Pork Shigure-ni Recipe (Ingredients) […]
Pound cake Today, I tried pouring rum over an okara pound cake with raisins. The finished product had a very moist texture. The sweetness was just right, but with 30g of rum, the aroma was too strong. If you don't like alcohol […]