Posted in Translation, tagged baking, baking in, cake, chocolate cake, rice cooker cake on 2009/11/12| 3 Comments »
In which our readers will remember that our heroine is not blogging about chocolate because she has ovaries, but rather because of a complex cultural system of gender-policed foods that have led her down the path of chocolate consumption and–
And because chocolate cake is damn awesome and you can make it in your Japanese rice cooker.
It's a piece of cake to--no, let's not start that.
Posted in Rural Life, tagged くりごはん, baking, baking in rice cooker, cake, chestnut and matcha cake, chestnut cake, chestnut rice, chestnuts, cooking, kuri gohan, matcha, matcha cake, rice, rice cooker, 栗ご飯 on 2009/09/14| 1 Comment »
And indeed, a battle it was.
My friends tease me for blogging/discussing food basically non-stop, but I think about food preparation A LOT these days. I want to experience the food of this country, and so I wind up buying bags of vegetables, nuts, and fruit that I have no idea how to prepare, then learn–and then I have all sorts of Iron Chef war stories to tell. Remember my post on edamame?
Well, chestnuts are in season right now, and what is more delicious than chestnut-flavored everything? I got some chestnut gelato from the local gelato place; I’m sure grocery stores that actually carry Kit Kats have chestnut-flavored Kit Kats right now. Fall is in the air, and it was time for GAIJIN CHEF: CHESTNUT BATTLE.
I found a simple recipe for chestnut rice in my bilingual cookbook and a recipe for matcha-chestnut cake in my rice-cooker cookbook, so I decided I was going to cook all my chestnuts and go crazy with the cookery.
First, how do you cook a chestnut? There are several methods, all of which are PAINFUL.
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged baking, cake, rice cooker on 2009/09/08| 2 Comments »
I had planned to do my next cooking post about my struggles to cook dinner in a place where I don’t know how to make the local cuisine, but, in the gap between the first cooking post and today, I have discovered something wonderful. Something magical.
Baking cake in the rice cooker.
What is going on here?!
Oh, yes. That’s right.
