Sugar Beet Syrup
I needed some pancake syrup for breakfast this morning. I thought I’d use some beet sugar since it tastes great in maple tea. I may add some vanilla extract next time. This syrup is thin but flavorful like maple syrup. Easy Syrup 1 cup sugar (beet sugar is てんさい糖 in Japanese) 1/2 cup water Bring … Read more
Kabocha Butter
I found a new pumpkin butter recipe on Oh She Glows this week that I had to try with kabocha. I have a kabocha jam recipe that I make all the time and decided to combine the two recipes – ingredients from the pumpkin butter recipe and cooking method from my kabocha jam recipe. I … Read more
My first nut butter
Nut butters are all the rage in the healthy eating/lifestyle blogging community. I’ve wanted to try making nut butters for a while but worried that my food processor would die in the process. I inherited it from my old manager and I’m not sure how old it is. I finally tried one and discovered why … Read more
Kabocha Jam
I found this recipe last year when I was on a jam kick. It is a blog called ‘atto recipe’ (あっとレシピ) and was posted in Japanese. This was a surprise. I was actually expecting to find this to be only mediocre but was pleasantly surprised. My mother’s (and grandmother’s) pumpkin pie recipe uses orange juice … Read more
