I recently tried out three recipes I found online. The first was a recipe for from-scratch english muffins which I found here. I have never made any sort of bread from scratch so it was a new experience for me, and actually a lot easier than I thought. I think kneading the bread is very fun, and the recipe was so simple I could make modifications very easily. In fact, the muffins shown in the picture are actually onion english muffins. I added the onions very late in the process and they created a bit of extra moisture, which is why the muffins puffed up instead of being flat like they normally would.
The second recipe was for a mushroom veggie burger. This recipe can be watched here. This recipe also was very simple, and I learned a new trick! To add salt when you cook mushrooms will drain them of moisture making them much easier to use in other dishes such as this. The picture here does these burgers no justice. They were quite amazing. I made four of them and ate one just before work, and I couldn't help it... I came home on my lunch break and ate the remaining three!!
I had a surplus of almonds that weren't getting eaten very fast, so I decided to try my hand at making almond mlik (
recipe). I didn't do a very good job at this one, since I don't actually have a blender. I tried mixing the almonds and water in a food processor but because I had no good way to measure, I used way too much water, and not enough almonds. So while this mixture does look very similar to almond milk, the taste is unfortunately closer to water. I will try again soon though, maybe with a borrowed blender!
What I like about holidays in Japan is that it normally involves food!
