Pizzaman are pizza filling stuffed Chinese style buns found in Japanese conbini (convenience stores). The dough was made based on this recipe from Youtube though I had to increase the amount of water I used to 120 ml rather than 100 ml. The filling was spicy Italian sausage filling removed from the casing and cooked off, cooled and then combined ( Read more... )

Christmas for OneI wasn't going to do anything special this year cause I had a case of the Christmas blahs, but, at the last minute I bought a fresh leg of lamb and roasted it off with rosemary, garlic and olive oil. Threw in some diced potatoes and carrots as sides. Washed the meal down with a spiked (vodka) cranberry lemonade. Dessert was slices ( Read more... )

Shokupan is a very popular daily or "eating bread" in Japan.

In light of my summer obsession with expanding my repertoire of Japanese foods, I couldn't pass up giving it a try. The blog where I found the recipe has two easy-to-follow versions. The easier of the two is kneaded very briefly in a food processor ... and I'm all about EASY recipes or ( Read more... )

I still have a backlog of recipes/posts to share but got very excited about today's bake so it jumped the queue. I've got several recipes for steamed buns (Chinese bao or Korean jjinppang) in my recipe archives but I went to my favourite YouTube channel, TabiEats, for a small batch of buns, especially as I was able to use up a container of leftover ( Read more... )

One of my favourite ways of using freshly made hot dog buns/hoagies is as a transport vehicle for grilled or bbq'd hot (or sweet) Italian sausages, sauteed onions and sweet pepper strips. If you like some tang in your sandwich, you can add a few jarred pepperoncini, along with some of the juice, to the filling.


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Warning: Another Picture Heavy Post

ETA (09/09/2018): Recipe for the Shooter's Sandwich added

I rarely expend as much effort on a dish/recipe as I did for this glorified steak sandwich.

And, at the end, I didn't USE the bun I had spent all that effort on.


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I recently saw a post on one of my bread making FB groups about making potato bread/buns ... and I was intrigued ( Read more... )

Last weekend I did a lot of cooking so this weekend was baking time. Between the buns, rolls and pizzas, I'm going to be burning through a bunch of yeast and flour. Instead of using butter, I made a batch of enriched dough using duck fat, eggs and milk. You can use the same enriched 'brioche style' dough for various bakes, sweet or savoury.


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PICTURE HEAVY POST:

These tasty breads are a product of the French colonization of Vietnam and similar to the French baguette. They're usually filled with sweet and tangy pickled vegetables and an assortment of cold cuts or warm grilled meats.

I made a trio of baguettes using the recipe posted on "Danang Cuisine" website. Though I weighed the all ( Read more... )

PICSPAM BELOW:

Sometimes I just don't have the energy to research/cook/post new recipes. So I dig out the tried and true recipes of the past. Pork is featured in some form in almost everything below, except for the chili.

Like pork crackling biscuits.


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