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Green tea brioche with sweet beans
June 3, 2010 at 2:00 am | Tags: azuki, bread, brioche, dairy, Japanese, tea | 8 Comments
Much like we westerners like Japanese food, but alter it to suit our tastes, Japanese people like western food, but often with a Japanese twist. At the Uomo subway station in Tokyo, there's a little bakery full of western-style breads (OK, there are actually tons of such bakeries), where you take a tray and neatly fill it with pastries from the display (with tongs, of course). Here it is that we discovered green bread -- green tea flavored, to be precise, with ribbons of sweet azuki bean filling. And it was excellent.
In Japan, green tea and sweet beans are popular flavors for many things, but for some reason, it hasn't caught on anywhere else I've ever been. This means if you want these flavors, you'll have to make it yourself. Continue reading Green tea brioche with sweet beans...
Chai ice cream
October 14, 2009 at 11:00 am | Tags: chai, dairy, dessert, ice cream, tea | 4 Comments
The mix of spices in this ice cream may not be the definitive recipe for masala chai — if there even is such a thing — but it produces a taste that I associate with the Indian tea, and is quite good. The light brown demarara sugar rounds out the flavor with a light molasses kick. Now, let’s enjoy some ice cream while it’s still warm. Continue reading Chai ice cream…
Green tea ice cream
April 22, 2009 at 1:00 am | Tags: dairy, dessert, ice cream, Japanese, tea | 2 Comments
This was another one of our favorite foods in Japan, even if one particular ice cream cone dripped and left green stains on my favorite skirt.
I prepared it almost the same way I made another kind of tea ice cream — the Thai tea ice cream recipe I posted a while back. The only differences were the kind of tea I used, and a few drops of food coloring (yes, I admit it). Continue reading Green tea ice cream…
Thai tea ice cream
February 5, 2009 at 1:00 am | Tags: dairy, dessert, ice cream, tea, Thai | 11 Comments
We’re now the proud owners of a brand new ice cream maker, and I decided to try out our new toy by making a flavor you won’t find in any ice cream shop I’ve ever seen — Thai tea ice cream. The results were fabulous. Continue reading Thai tea ice cream…
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