Hearty tomato-vegetable soup

Mmmmmmm...

 Today is a rainy, chilly fall day. I'm sleep-deprived, coming down with a cold, and the boots I ordered online are not my size. Today is not my day... so it's time for some hearty comfort food! I scraped this together with odds and ends of things that have been living in my fridge for a while or on my shelf, so it's a little impromptu, and also my pan turned out to be slightly too small for this, but oh well. It's delicious.

Men's Pudding

This is a new item in my 100-yen Lawson's. Looks dynamic, eh? I was curious, and picked it up to investigate further (checking, as always, for the kanji for wheat)...

Cinnamon/nutmeg pancakes

1/2 cup corn flour
1/2 cup rice flour
1/4 (generous) cup of corn starch
1 tbsp corn grits
1+1/2 tsp baking soda
2 tbsp brown sugar
1 egg
3/4 cups soy milk
1 tbsp vegetable oil.
nutmeg or cinnamon

Mix dry ingredients together while heating up the pan. Mix in the wet and start making pancakes. Once you've poured a pancake into the pan, add the nutmeg or cinnamon on top.

This makes a light, not-to-sweet pancake with a unique flavour. They're a little stiffer than regular pancakes, so eating them like pseudo-cookies is quite good. A nice breakfast for a cloudy day!

Birchirmuesli!

In my classy faux-tupperware, no less

One of my favourite summer foods of all time when I was a child was birchirmuesli - it's pronounced "beer-cher-moozly" ("ch" as in "Bach"). I don't even really know what language that is off the the top of my head, but the word's pretty much synonymous with "delicious". The best thing about birchirmuesli, though, is that, in addition to being super-healthy and tasty is that it's quite easy to make!

Wordless Wednesday

Alright, for those of you who can't cheat wordless and read the Japanese, you're looking at: curry ramune, eggplant ramune, onion ramune, and tako-yaki ramune. No, I am not making that up.

Buckwheat Sweet Potato Bread

Sweet potatoes are cheap this time of year! Make the most of it with this delicious and hearty bread, taken from this recipe on Gluten-Free Mommy. I obviously had to make some changes, not having xanthan gum, half the flours, or even nutmeg - which I should invest in, seeing as how it's a very autumnal spice and I'm sure I'll be wanting it for other things.

Reasons why I am a dunce, #112

Protip: don't ever microwave soft tofu in a bowl with saran wrap as a cover. When the saran wrap collapses, so does your tofu.