Green Tea Mille Crepe Cake

I love the green tea mille crepe cake from Lady M Cake Boutique. I had this one at my favorite local Japanese joint, Momoya, with my favorite foodie!

Lady M® Cake Boutique
41 East 78th Street
(Between Madison Avenue and Park Avenue)
New York, NY 10075
Phone: 212.452.2222

Momoya Chelsea
185 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10011
212-989-4466

Malaysian Hot Sauce

I had an exciting day yesterday. Aside from all the cucumbers that are growing in my garden I also have a nice bounty of chili peppers. I stuck some in the freezer to last me all winter and the rest I used to make my own version of Malaysian hot sauce. This is how I did it:
Soak a handful of dried shrimp in water. Drain and give it a fine chop. Chop up a handful of garlic cloves and shallots. In a pan dry roast the shrimp until it is dry, fragrant, and slightly toasted. Add oil and set flame on low. Add garlic and shallots. You want the shrimp to toast up and the garlic and shallots to slowly caramelize. Once this all happens add finely chopped chili peppers and some sugar and maybe some more oil if needed. Allow to cook on low for 5 more minutes allowing the sugar to caramelize a little and the oils in the chilies to come out. Add some fish sauce to taste and voila you have my version of Malaysian hot sauce that is great used in stir fry or served with dumplings or noodle soups!

I heart my blog

I love my blog. Not because it's fabulous or really interesting, because it's neither, but because it's like a library for all the things I've cooked or eaten. I have the worst memory so this blog remembers it for me! I just watered the garden and have an abundance of cucumbers that I can't finish all by myself so a great idea popped into my head to make PICKLES! I've made them before and they came out AWESOME but I can't remember where I put my recipe or who's blog inspired me to make them. For the past 10 min I've been searching and searching until I realized that I blogged about it and here it is!!!! This is great! No need to rummage through piles of index cards with written recipes or binders filled with recipe print outs, no need to search through every file in my computer because it's all logged right here in my blog! I'm all smiles!

Vosges, let your body move to the music

I'm eating my favorite chocolate bar right now. Vosges Barcelona Bar, deep milk chocolate, hickory smoked almonds, and sea salt. I love Vosges inventive flavors and ideas but yesterday I was having a chocolate craving for something comforting and nothing pairs better than chocolate and nuts. Ever since I started pastry cheffing I can't eat cheap chocolates like snickers and kit kats. The waxy texture and overly sweet taste turns me off. The barcelona bar is perfect. Not as sweet as milk chocolate but not as bitter as dark chocolate and with a touch of salt to open up your taste buds I can't think of anything better. At $7.50 a pop I'm glad I don't crave chocolate that often!
I eyed these Barcelona chocolate covered almonds at the counter but it was too late. My credit card was already rung up. These babies will have to wait until my next chocolate craving!




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Must Haves

Must haves in the kitchen:
1) black sharpie marker
2) paring knife ( I prefer my serrated paring knife from Victorinox)
3) two dry rags
4) some wit to ya

Fat Lazy Cat

I'm Snoopy and I like to eat crab, salmon sashimi, grilled fish, chicken, medium rare steak, scallops, chicken broth, tuna out of a can and yogurt. My all time fave treat are bonito flakes! I don't like to eat cooked salmon, pork, liver, shrimp and any kind of vegetables and fruit.
*Edit: I also like Roomano aged gouda cheese and small bites of cake.