Wednesday, July 22, 2015

flippin' bacon

What flips your bacon? After using cooking chopsticks for forever, I forgot that I used to utilize tongs. How do you turn yours?

In other news, I'm SO excited to start baking again: we bought an oven! I think one of the first new recipes I'll try is this Paleo pie crust from Elana's Pantry. It just sounds so good to me right now.

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

matcha butter

Oooooh, yeah: Mrs. Yasue's homegrown strawberries made into her homemade jam, and matcha butter made by moi. All slathered on rice-flour bread rolls that I can buy frozen from a local restaurant. To make matcha butter, just soften some unsalted butter and blend in some sifted matcha powder. (Idea from the cookbook New Tastes in Green Tea by Mutsuko Tokunaga.)