Love for Tableware & Food
When I was growing up in Japan, I remember glass jars of plum liqueur or Umeshu in my grandmother’s pantry. Every year she would pick basketful of green plums from her garden and prepare a new jar of plum liqueur. I love drinking this sweet, soothing liquor and around this […]
One of my favorite cakes to bake, (when I decide to bake a cake that is) is Bundt cake with fresh blueberries. My Bundt cake is an adaptation from Martha Stewart’s recipe that I found online several years ago. This Bundt cake is refreshing, buttery and has the perfect juicy […]
Orange chicken is a popular dish to order in restaurants but I love making this dish at home. My version of orange chicken has plenty of fresh orange peels and juice, with pan fried chicken. Broccoli is not usually part of orange chicken but I added broccoli florets for extra […]
Any dish with salmon is pretty much a winner for me. Whenever I can get my hands on fresh salmon fillets, one of the dishes I end up making is gravlax. It’s not only simple and easy to make, but gravlax is versatile that it can used to make many […]
Chicken Parm is one of those things that I usually don’t order in Italian-American restaurants because it’s simply hard get a good one. I had too many where the chicken was pounded to death paper thin, overcoated with crumbs and covered in way too much pasty sauce to overcompensate for […]