My keyboard is playing up so I made a video instead of typing. Sorry the editing is kinda rushed.

I just finished my first week in the Silk Road Cafe and I thought that I’d might as well upload a photo of my homemade cherry blossom strawberry cake!

Super tired so I won’t talk about how it was made etc. BUT I’ll post up some stuff on basic coffee making and show the world how awful I am at steaming/foaming milk ;_;

I then moved a little closer and realized that it was a towel.

Ingredients: 2 1/2 tbls orange marmalade, 2 tbls soy sauce, 2 tbls brown sugar, 1 tsp mirin (sweet sake), 500 g chicken, 1 tbls butter, 4 big handfuls shredded cabbage, Mayonnaise, 8 c cooked rice (any rice)

Method (now with more visual aid!):

FIRST, put the rice in the rice cooker/ pot depending on how you cook your rice.

THEN, Combine orange marmalade, soy sauce, brown sugar and mirin in a bowl with the chicken (in chunks). You can purchase mirin at citysuper for like 20 bucks or so (as well as the cabbage which is labeled as “Japanese cabbage”, it tastes better for some reason). You can marinate the chicken earlier in the day or the day before for a stronger orangey flavour.

LEAVE the chicken alone. I know it’s fun to poke. Chop the cabbage up in strips instead and take a chunk of butter and stir-fry it until brownish.

THEN stir-fry the chicken after placing the cabbage somewhere safe (aka down your pants). Do this until the chicken is light brown and less nasty than visual B in the upper right, then place it in a bowl.

TAKE the cabbage out of your pants and place it on the table, preferably in another bowl alongside the chicken.

GET your bowl of rice, place some cabbage on top with a dollop of mayo and some chunks of chicken and you’ve got the best darn bowl of something Japanese ever invented.

<– final product.

my beautiful assistant–>

KTHX for reading and STAYING TUNED.

p.s. why is my font ugly..?

Ingredients: A potato diced, a carrot sliced, an onion chopped (or cut eight times according to Grandma), a tomato diced and some salt.

Method: Boil a kettle of water and pour over ingredients in a pot for 45 mins. After 45 mins taste to see if it’s disgusting or whatever and add salt to taste.

You can refrigerate it to keep for later or just give it away to your neighbours/ unlucky family members if it doesn’t work out for you.

To add meat, boil the chicken/ beef/ pork first until the blood is gone and till it’s cooked. Ditch the bloody water rubbish and add the meat to your veggies.

Ok, here’s the finished product, yeah a little weird looking. But HEY pretty good for boiled vegetables! Perhaps a more appetizing dish for the next post..? .. OR NOT. Stay tuned to discover how to boil OTHER thingss..

- Anne B.