Sunakku.

Delicious sweet potato snack, I love thee and thy gluten-free status!

In other news, my dinner the other night. Egg and asparagus (fried in butter, yum), with Kyarameru Sunakku on the side. It's actually gluten-free; the little puffs are made from corn flour, and they're addictively delicious.

FRESH NUTS

Joyful talking is a go!

Sweets Circus

There's a store in the bottom of one of the department stores near where I work, and it's a giant, pink cafeteria called "Sweets Circus". It's made up of all different little stores selling all kinds of delicious, dessert-y things. They have two chocolate fountains near the cashiers. Needless to say, I do so like to spend time there.

Behold, deliciousness! Gluten-free, too.

Onigiri knock-off!

I don't actually know what this is called, besides delicious. It is a variation on onigiri, and I posit that it in fact tastes different because of the different assembly method. You shall have to try it yourself to find out for sure!

First, you take your onigiri knock-off in hand. Read the directions very carefully!

Winter is strawberry season!

Persimmon bread with fresh strawberries on top. I am a king.

Onigiriiiii!

Onigiriiiii! Mayonnaise tuna. Very, very good.

More Mochi!

These recently appeared at my hyaku-en Lawson's. They're just plain little mochi balls, but the red bean inside is a tad sweeter, and the outside is covered in toasted sesame seeds.

They're small, but super-delicious. This is my current favourite after-work snack, although I have no idea of the calories, or even if it contains trace amounts of gluten. I suspect they're pretty clean, though.

Advanced Baked Apple!

Use exactly this kind of apple or your recipe will taste horrible and you will fail as a cook, for serious :|

Or rather, my attempt at making a sort of applesauce in my rice-cooker. It turned out a little less saucy and a little more stew-y, but it was delish nonetheless. This is for all you people who can't eat raw food and/or are on a liquid diet (like myself right now).

Rudimentary baked apple

What you can't see is the delicious steam rising from them, or the juice in the bottom.

Perfect for a cold fall night!

Ingredients:

-1 apple (or half of an apple the size of two fists combined, which is what I had)
-1 spoon brown sugar
-cinnamon
-tiny bit of water

Slice up your apple and core it. Mix together brown sugar and cinnamon. Make sure hte apple slices are thin, and arrange them in a tinfoil pan, sprinkling the brown sugar and cinnamon mixture on top of each layer. If your apple's not very juicy, add a tiny bit of water in the bottom of the pan. Pop that sucker in the toaster oven for about eight minutes.

Careful when you take it out: it's hot.

Brazilian cheese puffs

I have too much tapioca flour. I needed to use it. I found this recipe on Yahoo Answers and decided to try it out!

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)...

Sweet potato cake

While riding around on my new bicycle (!!) last weekend, I chanced across a small fruit-and-vegetable stand selling what I assume are farm-fresh vegetables. I can't tell, of course, since there's no way I could read this information even if it was advertised, or even ask, but I went in anyway and came out with numerous healthy treats, among them some sweet potatoes, which I just discovered on my top shelf this evening!

Sweet potato cakes are a traditional Japanese treat, naturally gluten-free, and healthy for you, so I figured I'd try my hand at them, since I'm actually not quite sure what else to do with Japanese sweet potatoes. Herein lies the recipe:

Peanut butter, miso, and cinnamon cookies

Made in my tiny toaster oven!

EDITED AS OF 08/14: These cookies are actually incredibly nasty. I'm not sure what I was thinking, or perhaps I was just incredibly hungry after making them, but they are for all intents and purposes totally inedible now, and the very act of biting into one triggers an instant spit-it-out-now reflex. For the love of Pete, don't put the miso in these cookies. Just... keep them peanutbuttery. I will experiment further sometime down the line, I'm sure.


It's a rainy day in Nagoya, and after walking home from the gym at noon in a torrential downpour, complete with thunder, I abandoned previous plans to bum around downtown shopping, and decided to make it a lazy afternoon at home. And what's more rainy-day than making some cookies? These are modified from a recipe I found at Pattycake.

Gluten-free snacks

Pizza without the wheat! Who'd have suspected a gf
product from Doritos? And they don't taste too bad, either.

No recipes here - this is stuff you can just buy in the store. It's definitely harder to figure out what's gluten-free and what's not around here, especially since I've only memorized the kanji for wheat, and not barley or rye, although wheat is what I really have to be most careful of.

After much searching, I was able to find not one, but two gluten-free cereals today!

Cooked banana candy

Careful - they're super hot!

Considering the abundance and cheapitude of bananas at this time of year, I've been eating at least one banana a day, and getting increasingly more creative with how I consume them. This afternoon, my sweet tooth was acting up, so I decided to make myself this snack - it's quick, easy, and delicious!