The rhubarb season is coming to an end. Tomorrow is theoretically the last day of the season which means we have to wait almost a whole year until rhubarb is available again. A cruel time. So let’s quickly make a few more rhubarb recipes before it’s too late. This Rhubarb Compote with Vanilla Sauce and Streusel is a great dessert to prepare in advance or even freeze it for later. In case you want to extend the rhubarb season a bit, this is definitely a good option.
How about a dessert that is 2-in-1? A delicious pie and cheesecake at the same time? Why limit yourself to just one treat when you can have it all at once?! Right?! This Strawberry Cheesecake Pie is a great summer refreshment and will make many people happy for sure… whenever I make it and serve it to friends and family it’s basically gone in seconds ;P
Well… what can I say? These gluten-free Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies are to die for! There have not been many cookie recipes this lately where I’ve devoured the result as I did here. My beloved “friend” diabetes keeps me away from sweets most of the time, but I just could not resist here… and that means a lot! ;)
Well well well… all you can see now are these delicious Egg Salad Sandwiches aka. Tamago Sando – but there was actually a different plan for this post today. If everything had gone the way it should have, there would be a little travel blog post or at least a preview of a travel blog post here now. The sandwiches would have been the snack on the side along with the story… but life sucks sometimes. There is no other way to say it ;P
Last week I already wrote a bit about what should have happened this week and the previous one. This June would have been a month full of traveling all over Asia. I would have gone to Bangkok first for several days, then Korea for a week and last but not least Japan… I wanted to visit Japan and especially to Tokyo for a very long time, but it never worked out so far. Unfortunately, this time it did not work out either ;) Instead of the usual reasons “no time” or “no money” it was a global pandemic that kept me from visiting Asia. I have to admit, that the reason this time is a valid one. And also not my fault ;)
Well… Japan is not going to make a run for it nor going to sink into the ocean anytime soon. If they are not blowing themselves up in a nuclear meltdown again (knock on wood!), the chances are pretty good we can try it again next year or the following one. Let’s just hope for the best…
Anyway. If everything went as planned, I’d be probably sitting in a funny and colorful coffee shop in Shibuya uploading some travel pictures and eating a Tamago Sando. I’ve heard the Japanese like those sandwiches a lot. Unfortunately, I can’t tell from my own experience, because I’m not really sitting in a funny coffee shop in Japan ;)
Very well then. Of course, I made the sandwiches some time ago, otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to show them here during my (planned) vacation. So you are looking at old bread basically ;) The sandwiches were delicious though. The difference to a regular sandwich with egg salad is probably the Japanese mayonnaise aka. Kewpie mayonnaise. You need that to make a “real” Tamago Sando ;) You should be able to get it in any Asian supermarket – besides Sriracha sauce that’s what almost every store is selling…
Well. Maybe you have some ideas for typical Japanese snacks and sweets and can tell me something about them. I would love to make some more typical desserts from Japan so I can stop complaining and whining about my crushed holiday dreams ;P
“An apple strudel a day keeps the doctor away”, right?! Probably not. If you eat an Apple Strudel Cake like this one each day you are probably dead in no time… but it would be a happy death for sure ;P Just kidding! Today is “Apple Strudel Day” in the US and I had to celebrate that day, of course. Not necessarily with the original apple strudel but with my version, as you can see here…
I love my job, but in between I love to bake and try new things in the kitchen. A lot of my friends and colleagues encourage me to bake - for a very simple reason: they get the leftovers - and it seems they like it most of the time ;)
