Recipes

Flaky Biscuits
🕓 Jan 18, 2025

Makes 12-15 biscuits

Ingredients

  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 tbsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 1/2 cup milk

Instructions

  1. Pre-heat oven to 400F
  2. Sift dry ingredients together
  3. Cut butter into mixture until it’s the size of small peas
  4. Combine eggs and milk, then stir into flour...

Cranberry Curd Tart
🕓 Oct 15, 2024

1x 10" tart

Ingredients

  • 180g (1.25 cups) hazelnuts
  • 125g (1 cup) rice flour
  • 0.25 tsp salt
  • 337g (1 1/2 cup) sugar
  • 226g (2 sticks) butter
  • 340g cranberries
  • peel and juice of one orange
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 egg yolks

Instructions

Shell

  1. Bake hazelnuts at 325F for 10-15 minutes then remove skins
  2. Grind nuts...

Foccacia
🕓 Oct 13, 2024

Makes 1 loaf, about 9" x 13"

Requires a stand mixer, don’t try this by hand.

Ingredients

  • 280g water
  • 50g olive oil
  • 381g flour
  • 7.5g salt
  • 3.5g yeast
  • 2g flaked salt

Topping ideas:

  • Strawberry Basil

    • Bake with the strawberries on top and minced basil mixed into the dough
  • Lemon...


ざるそば「zaru soba」
🕓 Oct 13, 2024

4 servings

Ingredients

  • ~400g buckwheat soba noodles
  • shredded nori
  • 6 tbsp Mentsuyu
  • 1 1/2 cups iced water
  • green onions (optional)
  • wasabi (optional)
  • tsukuemono (optional)
  • tempura (optional)

Instructions

  1. Bring a pot of water to a boil. Do not add salt
  2. Cook the soba according to package instructions...

冷や汁「hiyajiru」
🕓 Oct 13, 2024

Makes 2 servings

Ingredients

  • 2.5 cups of water and 1 dashi packet OR homemade dashi
  • 4 tbsp miso
  • 2 tbsp toasted white sesame seeds
  • 4 oz japanese or persian cucumbers
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 10 shiso leaves or chopped green onions
  • (optional) salmon or other fish filet
  • 7oz medium-firm tofu

Instructions

  1. Prepare...

合わせだし「awase dashi」
🕓 Oct 13, 2024

Makes ~800mL of stock

Ingredients

  • 10g of kombu
  • 10g of katsubonito
  • 4 cups of water
  • (optional) dried shiitake mushrooms

Instructions

  1. (optional) Cold brew kombu in 4 cups of water (~3-4 hours at room temp, or overnight in the fridge)
  2. Add kombu, water, and shiitake if using them to a pot and bring...

麺つゆ「mentsuyu」
🕓 Oct 13, 2024

Ingredients

  • 1/4c saké
  • 1/4c soy sauce
  • 1/2c mirin
  • 2"x2" piece of kombu
  • 1/2 - 1 cup katsuobonito

Instructions

  1. Bring the sake to boil in a medium pot. Let the alcohol evaporate for a few seconds
  2. Add soy sauce, mirin, kombu, and katsubonito
  3. Bring to a boil and simmer on low for 5 minutes...

Country-style Bread
🕓 May 19, 2024

Ingredients

Poolish

  • 227g (1 cup) lukewarm water
  • 0.5 tsp active dry yeast
  • 150g (1 1/4 cups) flour
  • 28g (1/3 cup) whole wheat flour

Dough

  • all of the starter (above)
  • 227g (1 cup) lukewarm water
  • 0.75 tsp active dry yeast
  • 14g (1tbsp) sugar
  • 450-480g (3 3/4 - 4 cups) flour
  • 1.5 - 2.25 tsp salt, to taste...

Eggplant 'Meatballs'
🕓 May 13, 2024

Serves ~4

Ingredients

  • 2 medium chinese eggplants
  • salt
  • olive oil
  • water
  • 2-4 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 tbsp ginger, minced
  • 1/2 green onion, finely chopped
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 1/2 tbsp soy sauce
  • 1 cup breadcrumbs

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 400F
  2. Slice eggplant and sprinkle each side with salt
  3. Rest...

Pineapple-soy glaze
🕓 May 13, 2024

Ingredients

  • 6 tbsp pineapple juice
  • 1/2-1 tbsp soy sauce
  • 1 garlic clove, minced
  • 1/4 tsp ginger paste or grated ginger
  • 3 tbsp sugar
  • 2 tbsp rice wine vinegar
  • 2 tsp cornstarch

Instructions

  1. Mix all ingredients
  2. Bring to a boil until thick
  3. (Optional) after coatingsomething with this glaze, sprinkle...