• Asian Flavors,  Baking Recipes,  Cupcakes & Muffins,  The Tummy Train TV

    These Matcha Cupcakes with Red Bean Frosting sum up my sweet love [VIDEO]

    So some of you might be wondering why I haven’t been posting as regularly lately, and to be honest I have been feeling really out of it. I mentioned before that there has been this website mercilessly copying almost all my posts (including all my photos) since I started writing about my Japan trip last December, and despite my attempts at handling the situation in a civil manner, all my pleas fell on deaf ears. The hilarious (in a bad way) thing about it was that at the beginning, the person behind this site– which from here on out we shall call “It”– tried to prevent me from tracing a…

  • Baking Recipes,  Bread-making,  My Favourite Ingredients,  The Breakfast Bin,  Yeasted breads

    Learning to love the green tea-red bean combination

    We’re taking a little break from the Japan travel blogs because I haven’t had the time to make the next posts in the series yet. But what else should I write about except this Japanese-inspired bread? This has been on my drafts folder for such a looooong long time. So long I don’t even want to tell you the exact date! But clearly these buns have made quite the impression on me, because the moment I saw the photos again, I immediately remembered what they tasted like. I haven’t always been the biggest fan of red beans. It’s not that I hate it or anything. I just feel very… blah…