Food blog update! Super easy 5 ingredient Financier tea cake recipe~

Whoever said all French desserts are complex is wrong. Sure, there are those beautiful pesky cookies known as macaron that will give even the most seasoned chefs a headache, and then there are those entremets that call for 5 different layers that will take you at least 2 days to make…but then, there are financiers, buttery, golden, moist, springy cakes that go well with everything, and only takes 5 ingredients! (Well, more if you add fruit and stuff like lemon zest)

I had a load of butter to get rid of and decided to make these to use all my ingredients up.  This recipe uses brown butter, which is basically boiled down butter with the water solids removed (and when it’s done, it smells like caramel toffee!) They go well with tea, ice cream, clotted cream, and well…basically anything you can think of.  But the best thing about them is that they’re super easy to make~ Just boil your butter until it gives off that sweet burnt toffee aroma, mix together all your ingredients, let it sit in the fridge for a while, and stuff them into the oven.

If you google them, you would most likely see them in rectangular ingot like shapes, but I didn’t have those molds. Technically, you can fill muffin molds with it too, I just used tart molds (though I’m definitely going to purchase some rectangle ones soon).  If you’re interested, click here for the recipe!

Men Oh Tokushima Ramen

New blog post! This time it’s on a ramen place I visited while in LA. Although it was alright (though it verged on the salty side…I must have visited on a bad day), it didn’t really let me relive my experience in Japan…it doesn’t even really compare to those ramen shops where the counter is wood bare, and you order through the machine and punch in all the options you want before handing it to the cook.  Must really look for a legit place to write about.

If you’re interested, click here to read about it!

Food Blog Update: Best Chinese Restaurant in LA

Finally finished writing the first blog post of my food excursions in LA.  I wasn’t too enthusiastic about going to Beijing Pie House at first, since it wasn’t on my list of restaurants to go to before I set out.  But damn, was I surprised…in fact, if I lived down there, I think I would go to this restaurant every single week for a different item.  Pictured above are beef rolls, pork and chives dumpling, radish pies, and the famous Homeland Meat Pie (simply addicting).

You must go here if you ever set out for LA.  In fact, I’ve sang praises to all my friends ever since coming back.  If you’re interested, click here to read about it!

Food Blog Update: Sichuan food

So it’s that time of the week again…for an update on the food blog! I actually published it on Friday, but unfortunately the hotel I was staying at didn’t provide free wifi in the rooms… (I thought it was almost barbaric, considering it was a nice hotel)

Anyways, this time, it’s about Szechuan food! Not the best, but I really liked their soup noodles, which were chewy and springy, and the soup base was quite spicy. 

If you're interested, click here to read about it!