On Christmas, my mum told me to bake something and we were kinda short on butter. I dug in my bookmarks and found a recipe from Lovescool for Green Tea Sweets. With my new gingerbread man cookie cutter, I cut out two gingerbread man-shaped cookies and with the rest of the cookie dough, made leaf-shaped cookies. Oddly, I didn't think my family would like it much, but I got a lot of praise and the kiddies were running around the house with cookies in their mouths. YAY. I would've loved to make gingerbread cookies, but the spices are damn pricey and I'm too lazy to buy molasses, ground ginger, and all that other stuff. Maybe next year, along with a gingerbread house. Thank god for the $4 matcha bags at Sunrise Mart.
On Friday, I finally bought a candy thermometer from that shop in Little Italy to make marshmallows. That's right. MARSHMALLOWS. Those sweet, white lumps of airy goodness made its way into my home and I plan to never buy the Jet-Puffed and even the Krasdale stuff again. It was a lot of work to cut them to pieces with a knife (when I should've used the scissor) then cover and remove excess confectioner's sugar from each and every marshmallow. They were a bit larger, but they're very satisfying, so I cut them a bit smaller to portion out. mm.. :9
Next up: Mushi Manju with homemade shiro-an!
6 comments:
I love it how your always being creative in cooking.
aww thanks
Yum! I wish my mom let me bake as much as you do. :D
D: My mum gets a bit annoyed when I bake too much, but her co-workers give praise which makes her happy.
My mom doesn't like to think that I'm wasting eletricity and thus am harming the environment. She feels that heating my "large" oven is a waste of energy. D;
Well. Since I live in the projects and don't have to pay for water and electricity, my mum doesn't feel the least bit responsible for conserving energy and water.
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