What is Umami? Ponder the oyster. A martini. Tom yum. Carne asada. Fleur de sel. All umami. Don't try to define it! Just surrender to the addiction; savor the flavor implosion.
kayoko: Eric- you’ll need to free up a few belt notches, for sure. So jealous!
kayoko: HOORAY FOR LANCASTER BUTTER! Don’t know what the Amish do, but they make the BEST BUTTER EVER.
Eric: I’m very concerned for my heart health when I move to NOLA next year.
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February 12, 2010
PREQUEL
The Good: Ode to Jean-George’s Chocolate Molten Cake The Bad: Domino’s Lava Crunch Crapcakes
Despite the occasional subpar specimen (Domino, I’m looking at you), my love of warm chocolate cake continues
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December 29, 2009
Isn’t she darling? Fujiya is a very old bakery/sweetshop chain in Japan– my dad always tells me that as a child, it was a super special treat to ever get a cake from Fujiya. This was the very last thing
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November 22, 2009
Remember my post about making a Japanese cheesecake? It’s a simple recipe, but very difficult to retain the fluffiness because of all the egg whites. Although it rises high during baking, but it shrinks down like an old person once you take it
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November 3, 2009
Sometimes store-bought trumps homemade. Mozzarella is definitely one. Peking duck is another. XLB, totally. You can make it all at home from scratch, which I’ve done, but it’s all readily available (especially in NYC), so why do I
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October 13, 2009
PREQUELThe Good: Ode to JG’s Molten Chocolate Cake, Pt. I
I should’ve known that the whole thing was a bad idea, but curiosity got the better of me yet again. I had been mesmerized by the omnipresent Domino’s
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September 14, 2009
Part I: THE GOOD @Nougatine, NYC
There are only a couple of desserts in the world that I could devote a series of posts to- molten chocolate cake (aka Lava, Warm, Flourless) is one of the chosen few.
When it comes to dinner,
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September 6, 2009
Newest omiyage (gift) in the Akabori household from Japan: green tea Baumkuchen from a patisserie in Dojima, Osaka called Mon Chouchou. From the website, it looks like it is a relatively new shop (2003),
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June 8, 2009
I don’t like cheese cake. Especially NY-style cheese cake, which is like eating cream cheese as is. You are done after one bite, it’s enough. In Japan, we have baked cheesecake, which is
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May 26, 2009
People in this country are obsessed with bacon. Bacon-wrapped pork, bacon-wrapped hotdogs, bacon-wrapped corn, bacon is everywhere. Last summer, I posted bacon chocolate, and there are a lot of sweet/savor
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April 14, 2009
I rebattled a cake again this weekend. Though I didn’t tell you about the initial trial, I made an angel food cake two weekends ago. I had a little get together with friends,
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