bread and original yeast

natsumikan-marmalade and choco cocoa bread

2010-12-22T15:20:00.000-08:00

garlic bread

2010-12-14T11:41:00.000-08:00

used some fried garlic chips to roll in

tender bread but has too much garlic in it .... :P

sandwich bread

2010-09-29T22:01:00.000-07:00

I forgot which yeast i used for these loaves of bread...
I remember that I wanted to make one of the loaves with raisins in but I forgot.....

mix fruits yeast : pain de mie

2010-08-19T19:33:00.000-07:00

grapefruits yeast: Large Rustic

2010-07-19T15:47:00.000-07:00

350g flour
150g ww flour
250g preferment

Japanese natural yeast: Cocoa Bread

2010-07-16T09:57:00.000-07:00

bread flour, brown rice flour, whole wheat flour, cocoa powder

Grapefruit Yeast: campagne

2010-07-09T17:25:00.001-07:00

made 2 campagnes.
yumyum bread with some oatmeal.

mint yeast: baguette

2010-07-07T20:09:00.001-07:00

over rose dough but it ended up ok bread.

Grapefruit Yeast Water

2010-07-03T20:00:00.000-07:00

My friend gave me a grapefruit that was grown in her garden.
It was very sweet and delicious so I decided to make yeast water with skin.

mint yeast water: buckwheat bread with raisins

2010-06-30T20:06:00.001-07:00

300g bread flour
100g buckwhear flour
150g preferment(mint yeast)
some salt, and palm sugar
raisins

yielded a loaf of spicy bread
beast with wine....mmmm yum

mint yeast

2010-06-30T19:59:00.001-07:00

clementine yeast: raisin boule

2010-05-23T10:41:00.000-07:00

preferment300g
flour200g

1st rise=6hours
2nd rise=4hours

Raisin's tartness gives this bread a good accent.
This time I used old preferment but it still made a good loaf.

clementine yeast bread

2010-05-09T09:22:00.000-07:00

okara bread (soy pulp) bread

2010-05-07T22:58:00.000-07:00

soy pulp 40%
bread flour 60%

Vegan soft cookies

2010-04-30T14:00:00.000-07:00

I had a surgery several days ago and have no energy to bake bread...

but, here, oatmeal cookies

Zen bakery's soft cookies lead me to come up with this recepi

yum!yum!

Boule: clementine yeast

2010-04-09T23:26:00.000-07:00

holes are too big....

but the loaf smells very good and yummy so let's not care about it. :P

Clementine Yeast Water：preferment

2010-03-26T15:45:00.000-07:00

An clementine was forgotten on the kitchen counter!
So I decided to make yeast water with it.
On the same day, a jar of marmalade was finished so I used it without washing it.
Yeast water was made in 3 days.
Now I am making preferment.
4 hours after the yeast water was mixed with flour.

bagel (chocolate and strawberry)

2010-03-13T21:21:00.000-08:00

80% bread flour and 20% rye flour

fluffy loaf: carrot yeast

2010-02-09T07:56:00.002-08:00

This bread's orange crumb and slight carrot flavor make me hungry.

Carrot yeast is made with the pulp that I get from juicer.

2010-02-09T07:56:00.001-08:00

ficelle and epi

2010-01-13T21:00:00.000-08:00

HOw TO: apple core yeast water DAY3

2010-01-07T15:43:00.000-08:00

BUBBLY BUBBLY !!
(I AM IN LOS ANGELES SO IT'S PROBABLY WARMER THAN REST OF THE COUNTRY.
WARMER WEATHER HELPS MAKING YEAST WATER FASTER BUT PLEASE DO NOT HEAT THE WATER...JUST BE PATIENT AND WAIT FOR FEW MORE DAYS. YOU CAN PUT THE JAR SOMEWHEWE WARM LIKE ON TOP OF THE REFRIGERATOR.)

HOW TO: apple core yeast water DAY2

2010-01-04T19:46:00.001-08:00

You start seeing some small bubbles in the jar.
It might take more than 24hours to see bubbles depending on room temperature.

HOw TO: apple core yeast water DAY1

2010-01-04T19:44:00.001-08:00

Put 2 apple cores in a clean jar with water to cover the cores.
You don't have to put too much fruit in a jar but more fruit(=sugar) makes better yeast water.
Put its lid on and wait....

square bread with buckwheat flour: mix fruits yeast

2009-11-20T21:31:00.000-08:00

mix fruits yeast preferment(soft) 100g(yeast water:flour=60g:40g)
bread flour 280g
buckwheat flour 20g
salt 1tsp
agave syrup 1tbsp
water 180g
oil 1tbsp

memo: 11/19/09, cool weather

knead dough well
1st rise 2 hours
punch down
2nd rise 3 hours
put the dough in a square pan
final rise 1.5 hours
bake for 30 minutes

sandwich loaf :mix fruits yeast

2009-10-23T16:07:00.000-07:00

getting cold! cocoa & rum flavored bread with dried fruits

2009-10-18T18:31:00.000-07:00

Fall is here.

Got rum flavored dried fruits ?

then make some yummy yummy cocoa spice bread.

ham and cheese, apple raisin, sweet petite rolls

2009-10-12T20:01:00.000-07:00

apple rolls, white pain de mie, oatmeal and whole wheat sandwich bread

2009-10-08T13:00:00.000-07:00

aaaahhhhh, bread from "Dans Dix ans"

2009-10-02T21:42:00.000-07:00

My favorite boulangerie in Tokyo, "Dans Dix ans"....I miss you so much!

Summer time special......fig.

cranberry bread

2009-09-19T22:45:00.000-07:00

Super tender & super fluffy cranberry 'pain de mie' without egg.

Secret recipe..... :)

Recently, this is the most popular bread among my customers and friends.

roll bread

2009-08-23T21:05:00.000-07:00

With palm sugar.

Holeless Bagels

2009-07-29T20:53:00.000-07:00

Bagels with no holes for sandwiches.
tomato yeast ferment and easy laomien(chinese style ferment) are used in the dough.
Laomien is traditionally made with flour and water but this time I added a tiny bit of yeast.

lemon&tomato yeast water: sandwich bread

2009-07-14T11:33:00.000-07:00

I baked a loaf looks like rustic with pain de mie dough.
Tender crumb with some random holes.

Tomato yeast: Buckwheat Waffles

2009-06-30T20:06:00.001-07:00

100% buckwheat
soymilk
oil
salt
agave syrup
tomato yeast ferment

Apple Rolls

2009-06-21T11:28:00.000-07:00

Honey flavored sauteed apple in rich and tender dough.
One of the most popular bread among my friends/customers.
yumyum.

tomato&Japanese natural yeast: Bagels

2009-06-14T20:26:00.000-07:00

cocoa & strawberry
cheese
raisin

lemon&tomato yeast water: Pain de mie

2009-06-10T20:06:00.000-07:00

Yeast water ferment (flour:yeast water=3:7) 130g
60% Bread Flour:300g
40% WW flour:200g
salt
agave syrup
canola oil

Tomato Yeast:Bagels

2009-05-29T14:09:00.001-07:00

Usually I add some sugar to the water when I boil bagel dough to make them shiny.

This time I did not add anythig to the water but still got shiny crust.

Hmmmm.....interesting.

OOhhh! Bubbly tomato yeast water

2009-05-24T21:31:00.000-07:00

Farmer's Market: Ripe Tomato & Sweet Lemon yeast water

2009-05-20T15:26:00.000-07:00

It's Wednesday, time to go get some fresh veges and fruits at farmer's market.

Sweet lemons, komatsuna, cilantro, ripe tomatoes and so on.

After I peeled tomatoes to make tomato sauce, I soaked skin in water to make tomato yeast water.

I also made sweet lemon yeast water with honey.

brown rice yeast water

2009-05-11T17:17:00.000-07:00

What you need:

Organic brown rice
water
honey/sugar/agave

1. Germinate rice by soaking rice into water for about 3 days at room temperature.
(change water twice a day)

2. By using blender, crash the rice with water.

3. Put the rice water in a clean jar and add some sugar.

4. Let it sit for 4-7 days until it ferments.

You see tha end result in the picture. (right, front with a gold top)

coen meal bread : fruits yeast ferment

2009-04-30T07:59:00.000-07:00

fruits yeast ferment (yeast water 60%:flour40%) 170g
cornmeal 100g
oat bran 100g
bread flour 150g
water 150g
salt 1.2tsp

Mix everything in a bowl.
Knead well and let the dough rise for 3hours.
Devide the dough into 8 and let them rise for 1.5 hours.
Bake at 380F oven for 16-19 minutes.

Milk Rye: Japanese natural yeast + Yeast

2009-04-25T14:22:00.000-07:00

bread flour 200g
rye four 30g
salt 1tsp
yeast 1tsp
canola oil 1.5tbsp
milk 160g

Let bread maker knead and rise for 1hour & 10minutes.
Punch down and let it rise for 30 minutes.
devide into 8 balls.
Final rise for about 1 hour at 30℃　room.

bake for 15minutes at 375F

one big jar of

2009-04-23T08:15:00.001-07:00

mix fruits yeast

I had several jars of mix fruit yeast water but I decided to make them into one.

Now this jar contains apple, apple skin, apple core, peach pits, dried prune, raisin and pear.

Ｔｗｉｓｔｅｄ　Ｂａｇｌｅｓ　(mix fruits yeast)

2009-04-20T08:08:00.000-07:00

WW flour, White bread flour, Rye flour

Mix fruits yeast ferment, salt, agave syrup

I made the dough little bit softer than regular bagel dough so I can obtain soft crumb.

I can only eat soft bread now (I have braces now.....)

custard roll

2009-04-02T07:56:00.001-07:00

Rolled easy-custard in simple pain de mie dough.

Brown Rice Yeast Water Bread

2009-03-30T16:02:00.000-07:00

Oishii !!

juicy crumb is the best!

Tea Yeast bread

2009-03-30T16:01:00.001-07:00

tomato & carrot yeast campagne

2009-03-27T20:05:00.000-07:00

Happy Yummy Cinnamon Rolls

2009-03-24T21:07:00.000-07:00

Super fluffy and yummy

No cane sugar

yumyum~

Assorted Yeast water jars...

2009-03-20T21:15:00.000-07:00

The weather is beautiful here!
In Los Angeles, it is time to start making new yeast water!
If you are thinking about baking with natural yeast water, let's start it in spring.
It is the best season to start baking with yeast water.

To make strong yeast water, use a lot of fruits and be patient for few days.
Have fun!

In the picture, you see some fruits yeast water and vegetable (carrot & tomato) yeast water.

３５％　Whole Wheat Sandwich Bread (Japanese natural yeast)

2009-03-17T07:13:00.000-07:00

My favorite Japanese natural yeast was usen in this bread.
I baked 2 loaves from 400g white bread flour and 200g whole wheat flour.
Let the dough rise for 4 hours at toom temperature and let it rest in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours.
Devide the dough into 6 and take bench time for 1 hour at the room temperature.
Put 3 round doughs into each loaf pan and take the last rise until the top of the dough
exceeds the highest edge of the pan.
300F 10min
380F 15min
no steam

Cheese Bread　(apple and yogurt yeast water)

2009-03-16T19:58:00.000-07:00

Hubby's favorite.
Doesn't this look great?
Yumyum

new apple yeast water

2009-03-14T10:51:00.001-07:00

When I eat apples, I usually eat skin too but when I baked apple cup bread last week I had to peel the skin of some apples because of some customers' preferance.

So I decided to make a new jar of apple yeast water.

This time I used a jar full of skin and cores and fill it with water.

It started bubbling in 2 day and became really strong yeast water after 2 more days sitting on the kitchen counter.

Even though I did not feed any sugar or honey.

So if you are thinking about making yeast watet, use as much fruits as you can to fill the jar to get good result.

Weak yeast water does not give you good bread.

Prune Boule (apple yeast)

2009-03-14T10:43:00.000-07:00

WW flour
white bread flour
prune
water used for reconstituting prune
canola oil
salt
apple yeast water preferment (ww flour and white flour)

The last rise was cut shot (supposed to have the 1.5hour rise but I could only spend 30 mintes)because of my busy weekend schedule and also had no time to bake for long time. So I only baked it for 15 minutes but I could obtain the good coupe.
I should have baked 10minutes longer to let the doug's moisture evaparate but I had no time.
Toasting the bread when you eat helps you doing that.

Whole Wheat bread (apple & yogurt mix yeast)

2009-03-07T23:14:00.000-08:00

After I came back from Japan, I wanted to test my yeast water's power so I baked this loaf.

This loaf contains 40% whole wheat so it did not rise much but crumb was moist!

apple cup

2009-03-07T23:11:00.000-08:00

Butter sauteed apple in cup shaped dough.

Sprinkle some cinnamon and yum!

vacation

2009-02-28T10:43:00.000-08:00

I was taking 10 days off from work and staying in Japan.

I visited some japanese bakeries while I was there ...

BUT!

I forgot to take my camera with me from Japan so I have no pictures of bread, sigh...

Tear shape rye bread (yogurt & apple mix yeast water)

2009-02-02T20:08:00.000-08:00

I've been baking white bread for 3 days for my friends but what I like to eat is whole wheat and rye bread.

So, I baked this tear shaped loaf.

Doesn't this look good?

Strawberry Carob Bagels (soy yogurt yeast)

2009-02-01T21:22:00.000-08:00

Vegan carob chips and dried strawberries are in this bagels.

There are so many different kinds of sweet bagels in Japan but not here in the
USA.

I've heard that people say 'sweet bagels are not bagels' but I like it so it's ok, right?

yumyum.

Waffle with olive oil (apple yeast water)

2009-01-30T11:08:00.000-08:00

You do not need baking powder (or baking soda) to make waffles.

This time I used apple yeast water and ferment to make waffles.

I wanted to make savory waffles so olive oil was used in this batter.

apple yeast water (rustic)

2009-01-28T20:53:00.000-08:00

Rustique with apple yeast water.

apple yeast water baking (Pain de mie)

2009-01-25T09:45:00.000-08:00

I got a new kitchen aid mixer4.5qt last week.

Then I made this bread with it 3 days ago.

The crumb is still so soft and fluffy because of the natural yeast.

Heavenly delicious.....

yogurt yeast water

2009-01-23T11:26:00.000-08:00

After making apple yeast water, mix it with plain yogurt to make strong yeast water.

Bacon Epi

2009-01-20T19:48:00.001-08:00

pain de mie (Japanese natural koubo)

2009-01-15T20:52:00.000-08:00

Pain de mie usually contains refined sugar.
I do not like to use cane sugar so I used agave syrup instead.

Japanese yeast scone (biscuit?)

2009-01-11T20:39:00.000-08:00

Japanese natural yeast scone.

No baking powder/baking soda was added.

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2009-01-11T08:19:00.000-08:00

Below are links to the post about .....

♪　How to make yeast water

♪　How to make preferment

♪　How to bake rolls

♪　How to bake Pain de Mie

♪　How to bake bagels

♪　How to make apple yeast water1

♪　How to make apple yeast water2

♪　Straight method (no preferment is used....more adavanced?)

♪　Q and A

IF YOU HAVE MORE QUESTIONS, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER.
ENJOY BAKING!

Japanese style Walnuts Bread　(yeast)

2009-01-11T08:06:00.001-08:00

When I use commercial yeast, I usually use Fermipan or Saf (red) yeast but it ran out.

I decided to use Saf Pizza Yeast (green package) instead.

I don't know where you can find this yeast in USA so please don't ask....

Most Walnuts breads shaped like this (see pic) taste slitly sweet in Japan but this time I used less sugar and made it similar to pain de mie sweetness.
Toasted and butter it.
Yum!

boule (Japanese yeast water baking)

2009-01-10T19:07:00.001-08:00

NEW recipe

2009-01-04T23:14:00.000-08:00

If you have been following the recipes that I posted before, and not getting good result, now you can try this recipe.
I think I wrote enough about making yeast water so I omit that part this time.

1: mix 100g yeast water and 100g flour(I use whole wheat flour) and mix them
in a container that has a lid (plastic wrap would work)

2: Leave the container at room temperature (aound 77-80degrees) for 6-8 hours.
It should double - triple.

3: Let the preferment rest in the refrigerator(vegetable room in the refrigerator is good)
for 6-8 hours.

4: Add 50g yeast water and 50g flour (AP is fine) and mix it.
Let it sit in room temperature for 2-4 hours until double- triple.

5:(you can either do 3 and continue to 6 or just continue to 6)

6: Do same as 4

Now you have 400g preferment in your container.

::::EASY RUSTIC::::

bread flour 250g
preferment 125g
water 150g-160g
salt 1 teaspoon
sugar 1 tablespoon

Put all the ingredients in a bowl.

Knead it for 10 minutes.

Cover the bowl and let it rise for 6-7 hours (in 77 degrees room)

Put the dough on a lightly floured surface and round it lightly.

Cover the dough with wet cloth kitchen towel and let it rest for 15 minutes.

Uncover, lightly press the dough with your finger tips and make the dough little bit flatter.

Cut the dough into 2 and move them onto a cookie sheet gently.

(you can devide it into up to 6 if you want to enjoy more crust)

Cover and Let them rise until doubles.

Slush the surface and dust some flour on the surface to look better.

Bake it at 400F for about 25 minutes.

If you divided the dough into more than 2, baking time will be shorter.

PAIN DE MIE(MIX FRUITS YEAST FERMENT)

2009-01-04T09:39:00.001-08:00

Happy New Year

This year's first bread I baked was 'black bean rolls'

I took some pictures of the bread but all of them were not clear so I decided to upload this picture of pain de mie.

Usually I do not use butter in my bread because I am a macrobiotic diet follower(similar to vegan) but this time I decided to add some butter which my husband likes.

After the loaf cooled down, I sliced it and smelled butter.
I added butter only 5% but still butter's aroma was overwhelming to me.
It was a big surprise.
Since I started this diet, I almost never had butter (even when I was practicing croissants making) so my milky smell sensor? became very sensitive.
The bread was moist and yummy but I don't think I would add more than 5% of butter in my pain de mie dough.

strawberry chocolate bagels (fruits yeast water ferment)

2008-12-31T14:20:00.000-08:00

I've been baking bagels this week.
These pictures above are 'strawberry chocolate' bagels.
I strawberry's sourness and chocolate's sweetness matches really well.
Do you like sweet bagels?

2 kinds of rustique (fruits yeast and Japanese natural yeast)

2008-12-28T22:01:00.000-08:00

I was in Vegas for several days and could not find any good bread there.

I went to Bouchon bakery but did not see anything attractive...

I came back to my apartment around 8:00pm and needed to knead some bread dough.
My craving for non-pastry, artisan kind bread was that bad.

I looked at 2 books and decided to make 2 different kinds of rustic bread.
A recipe out from each book.

One required to add some sugar (but I forgot to add it).
The other one was a quite simple recipe and requires no sugar.

I let the dough sit in room temperature for 7 hours.
In the morning I shaped them at 8:00am and baked them at around 9:00am.

My husband had a bread with vegan butter(he is not vegan but he had it), strawberry jam and penut butter.
It seemed like he enjoyed it as well as I did. Yummy.

Apple, raisin and pear mix yeast batard and UFO sweet bread

2008-12-24T08:18:00.000-08:00

Japanese natural yeast Batard

2008-12-20T10:11:00.000-08:00

My 2-week winter break started last night!
I was happy so I baked 3 kinds of bread last night.
2 loaves of French bread, 4 cocoa bagels and a batard.
I use regular instant dry yeast (fermipan red) for french bread and bagels.
The batard was made with Japanese natural yeast.

Crusty crust and fresh crumb with good holes.
I have to say "Thank you very much!" to my special yeast.

Apple&pear yeast ==Focaccia

2008-12-17T20:51:00.000-08:00

I was baking with apple yeast water in the past 1 month.
Last week, I fed the water a pear's core and refreshed it.
The water smells sweet and really good.

Yesterday, I baked 4 savory focaccia (2 salt&herb, 2 salt only)

Other natural yeast (batard)

2008-12-13T19:18:00.001-08:00

Today, I baked a batard with Japanese natural yeast that I got from Japan.

It is like backferment (dry kind) and easy to use for natural yeast debutants.

I mixed (did not need to knead) dough at around 12:00 and left it on the kitchen counter for 5.5hours.

It tripled. I punched it down and took 20 minutes bench time.

After making batard shape, let it rise for 35minutes.

Preheat oven at 450F.

After slushing the dough, put the dough on the heated cookie sheet, pour 100cc hot water in another heated pan to make steam. Close the oven door, turn the heat off and wait for 3 minutes.

Turn the oven on at 400F and baked for 20 minutes.

yum, yum.

Ah, I'm not good at slashing the dough....hehehe.
(Today, each slash was too close to each other. Maybe next time.)

Apple yeast Boule and mini Coupe

2008-12-12T20:53:00.000-08:00

My apple yeast is very active.

I baked a boule and 6 mini coupes with the yeast water.

steam baking worked vwry well today.

Yum,yum.

apple yeast bread 2

2008-12-07T20:21:00.000-08:00

ummm...

Oven spring was too small.

But still yummy!

Apple yeast bread

2008-12-06T08:05:00.000-08:00

Yum, yum.

I refreshed my apple yeast water 3 days ago and started making levain with whole wheat flour.

Made relatively lean 'pain de mie' dough at night and yesterday morning, I got this bread.

The crust was very aromatic and of course there was no yeasty or alcohol smell that commercial yeast bread has.

aahhh~I should bake natural homemade yeast bread more often...

oatmeal at starbucks

2008-11-30T09:45:00.001-08:00

Yesterday I went to get my car checked up.
While I was waiting at the lobby, I decided to have Starbuck's oatmeal.
It is supposed to be a healthy and low calorie menu.
While the oatmeal itself was very low in calorie (and it was good), the toppings that came with were high in calorie.
Nuts---100kcal
dried fruits---100kcal
brown sugar---50kcal
I dont usually add much toppings so it does not matter but if you pick this item just because it it lower in calorie, be careful .(^^;)

Croissant 2

2008-11-27T09:39:00.000-08:00

After I found my favorite croissant recipe, now I am searching for my husband's favorite croissant recipe.

He likes his croissant crispy and flaky like pie.

Today, I guess I took a relatively longer proof time so I got fluffy and tender croissant which I like.

My husband liked the crust but not happy about the crumb (he said, "it is too moist").

So in the second batch, I refrigerated the shaped dough for 30 minutes.

Then, I did short proofing (40minutes) and took a longer bake time.

Which yeild crispy croissants. Yum.

Are you happy, hubby?

croissant

2008-11-24T16:04:00.000-08:00

Past 3 days I've been baking croissants.

I tried 4 different recipes and finally I found my favorite recipe that can yield tender and fluffy crumb.

I like crispy and flaky croissant too but this time I was looking for the recipe of tender croissant.

Now I can make croissant sandwiches with this.

Pita Bread (similar to Daphne's )

2008-11-23T21:17:00.000-08:00

I sometimes go to Daphne's Greek Cafe.

I like their warm pita bread but occasionally their bread is really dry and hard... (over toasted?)

So I decided to bake my own Daphne's style pita bread.

The bread was really tender and yummy~~

I should have made hummus as well. Maybe next time!

batard? ficelle?

2008-11-22T12:46:00.000-08:00

This is a kind of French bread but I don't know how to call it.
It's bigger than ficelle but smaller than batard and had 3 slashes.
Usually batard has 3 slashes and ficelle has 5 slashes.

Today, I totally forgot to put the dough on canvas and had 2nd rise on parchment...and even worse, I put plastic wrap over the dough.....what was I thinking??
Well, obviously nothing...sigh.
The dough stuck to the plastic wrap and the surface of the dough got rough. That made it difficult to slash.
This bread tastes great but does not look handsome.

I will bake this bread again soon!

3 kinds of bread (straight and refrigerated fermentation method)

2008-11-21T16:17:00.000-08:00

Today I baked 3 kinds of bread.

I used straight method to make pain de mie.

Refrigerated method was used to make ham & mayo bread and cinnammon raisin bread.

The dough yield from refrigerated method had very fluffy and light crumb.

UFO bread?

2008-11-17T16:22:00.000-08:00

This is an easy variation of 'melon pan' bread (Japanese favorite bread).
Tender and fluffy crumb and a little bit crunchy cookie crust.....wonderful combination!

sesame bread and sausage roll

2008-11-15T20:25:00.000-08:00

One of my friends asked me to teach her bread baking.
I have several recipes that are easy to make for anybody.

This bread is one of them.
This is very tender and everybody loves it.

Rye and Whole Wheat

2008-10-13T09:25:00.000-07:00

50-50 rye and whole wheat flour

Using Japanese natural yeast.

It fermented really well and fast.

The bread was more tender than I expected.

CURRY BREAD

2008-06-23T10:19:00.001-07:00

Curry flavored bread.

Toppings are boiled egg, broccoli, fried onion, cheese and pepper.

Tender and yummy (^_^)

Chinese Tamales

2008-06-07T15:53:00.001-07:00

It's time to eat Chinese tamales and watch dragon boat race in China and Taiwan.

I tried to make home made tamales.

Look good??

huge...

2008-05-16T07:51:00.000-07:00

I found this muffin in the island of Kauai, Hawaii.

I did not see anybody eating this huge "bread" aka. "muffin" ..wonder who eats this.

soft and tender

2008-05-05T13:52:00.000-07:00

This soft and tender bread is made without any added sugar.

I used non-sugar soymilk instead of water.

Vegan friendly recipe, ymuyum.

50：50　bread

2008-04-27T08:12:00.001-07:00

100g WWF
100g BF
salt
brown sugar
IDY
water

my favorite brown bread..yum.

Pomona R/C show

2008-04-21T09:22:00.000-07:00

a pic from R/C show in Pomona.

Crawlers were very cool!

nectarine yeast bread

2008-04-18T13:24:00.001-07:00

Crispy crust.

Yum yum.

brown rice syrup + whole wheat and bran bread

2008-04-08T20:24:00.000-07:00

I am following macrobiotics diet.
This is the bread I made with brown rice syrup.
Rice syrup has good flavor and sattle sweetness.
My favorite ingredient.

clay pot baking

2008-03-07T20:21:00.000-08:00

First clay pot baking.

First cold start baking.

Need lots of experiments with this pot