Washism

I soooooooooo wanted to eat the dutch spiced cake that i had a year ago in Amsterdam. Around this time of the year i usually crave gingerbread cookies, but last year when i had this spiced cake called Ontbijtkoek that the Dutch commonly have for breakfast, i just fell in love with the gingery cinammon flavour.........

I decided to bake the richer version Kruidkoek today using this recipe that i got online from a Dutch lady

replaced the molasses in the recipe with Okinawan dark brown sugar though. The effect is about the same.

Dinner tonight was supposed to go with beer as requested

So i made Nikujaga which is a simmered dish with thinly sliced pork or beef, potatoes and carrots. On the side were, egg drop vegetable soup, baked white cabbage with melted cheese and crabsticks and steamed rice with added strips of daikon


Dessert these few days have been extravagant.

Since it is strawberry season..................................

we have been having looots of them

have you heard of white strawberries?

nope, not the unripe ones.

these are ripe, white but very sweet.

very expensive though. i heard about them on TV this morning. On sale for 5250yen (about USD50) for 9 to 15 pieces in each box.