Cinderella cakes

Very simple, fresh, fruity… The story is not about a pumpkin transformed into a princess car, but it’s very similar.

栗黄金 kurikogane (chestnut yellow gold potato) is the princess of sweet potatoes. It is cultivated in Kagoshima, Kyushu. It’s very sweet and flavorful. They make high quality shochu liquor with it.

This potato just need a few strokes of magic fork to become half a dozen of little cakes.

Very few ingredient :
-a delicious baked sweet potato
-1/2 lemon
-coconut cream
-vanilla powder

Mold the cake with hot potato (mashed + lemon juice), let cool and take out of molds. Then whip the cream, add vanilla.

Ready !

Cinco de burrito, and baked veggies

It seems the Cinco de Mayo, 5/5 on the calendar is the day when the Mexicans eat Mexican food. So I want some too.

So here is the menu : burritos colorados (in red sauce), 3 baked veggies. That’s how I imagine Mexican food.

I made these burritos from scratches. Home-made tortillas, strips of chicken grilled after being marinated in lemon juice, powdered jalapeno, salt and parsley, dices of avocado, parsley, onion…

Covered with a spicy tomato sauce. With soy yogurt, cabbage, avocado dices.

Nagai togarashi, they are local green sweet peppers.
I’ve filled them with sakekasu (sake lees) mixed with minced onion, paprika, turmeric, salt, a little olive oil and lots of cumin.

Baked !

栗黄金 kurikogane (chestnut yellow gold potato) is the princess of sweet potatoes. It is cultivated in Kagoshima, Kyushu. It’s very sweet and flavorful. They make high quality shochu liquor with it.

After being baked. I’ve also baked classic potatoes.

Gourmande November round up

Sweet potato (satsuma imo), potato and persimmon (kaki) season is back.

That’s the album about most of my November meals : November eats. And for vegan menus here.

These are the main topics and visitors’ current obsessions :

Tian casserole with potatoes
Satsuma imo soufflées
Kakicannelle persimmon

Classic revival :
kneppes (Lorraine’s pasta)
roasted chicken
French fries
tarte orangette
simple tarte au chocolat (silky chocolate pie)

Nordic wave :

Mousse de saumon et pain polaire

Swedish bean balls

Plus :
polar bread shrimp wrap
crispbread
mini buckwheat blinis salmon bites

American mood :

Natural yummy banana pudding

raw pumpkin pie

creamy pumpkin pie
Obama pizza
Chicago pizza

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On the road to Christmas :
nutty truffles

Saint-Nicolas, Kurisumasu, Christmas, Noël on Pinterest

sesame Japanese Xmas

Christmas desserts

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Kabocha forever

Steamed rice pudding and burnt kabocha.

Kabocha pumpkin on pinterest

kabocha and hijiki

kabocha mousse

Mungo bean curry and purple naruto

Indian spices and beans for this little lunch trio.

Mungo beans after one night of soaking. These Indian beans are often used to make bean sprouts.

After boiling, and clean foam, 15 minutes, I simmered them with the small grains of mochiawa(　foxtail millet). It’s flavored with kujo negi leek, curry spice mix, ground mustards seeds, ajowan, beer yeast…
That gave a good Indian style curry, perfect to warm you up.

This sweet potato is called “purple naruto”. Why that ? They created the cultivar in the region of Naruto. And it’s purple. Light purple. It is not very sweet. That’s well as a vegetable.