beyondumami

Seeing that Umami is the lesser known '5th taste', I desire to explore all things food. From excellent cheese, to mouth watering pastries, to savoury meats and beyond.

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Milk Bread (Shokupan)
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Milk Bread (Shokupan)
It's no surprise that milk bread (shokupan) gets rediscovered every few years. Compared to western style sandwich loafs, the insides are light, soft and fluffy. It's hard to resist tearing the bread apart just to see the elastic inside. Milk bread not only derives its name from the using milk but...
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Cheesecake from Dorie Greenspan's Every Day Dorie
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Cheesecake from Dorie Greenspan's Every Day Dorie
 Let's continue following along with Cook the Book Fridays and cooking from Dorie Greenspan's "Every Day Dorie". This week's was a Cheesecake. We had the option of using mandarin, tangerine or another citrus if we couldn't find tangerines. I loved how quick it was for this cheesecake to come...
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Moroccan Spiced Chickpea and Noodle soup - Everyday Dorie Cookbook
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Moroccan Spiced Chickpea and Noodle soup - Everyday Dorie Cookbook
This week it has been a whole host of cooking from Dorie Greenspan's cookbook Everyday Dorie. I was super impressed how fast this recipe came together considering the fact that I only got home at 6pm but managed to prep, cook and have the soup done by 7pm. One way I sped up the cooking process wa...
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Chocolate Mochi Brownies - Recipe from Mochi Magic
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Chocolate Mochi Brownies  - Recipe from Mochi Magic
Most people love brownies, but have you ever heard of mochi brownies? I tend to think of Brownie and Mochi = Brochis! But first you might be asking, what is mochi? Mochi is a form of sticky rice cake that is made from Japanese short grain rice called "mochigome". Mochigome is a chewy, sticky rice...
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Two layered Chocolate Cake with Strawberry Frosting
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Two layered Chocolate Cake with Strawberry Frosting
 A delicious two layer chocolate cake with strawberry frosting and white chocolate drip. I am not a huge fan of white chocolate, I find it overly sweet and not that chocolatey. However, it has its uses and Dan tells me that all the cooking reality shows use white chocolate for mirror gl...
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Bean & Tortilla Soup - Every Day Dorie AND Blueberry-Buttermilk Bundt Cake
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Bean & Tortilla Soup - Every Day Dorie AND Blueberry-Buttermilk Bundt Cake
Hello, it has been a while! I have been updating my instagram, but between work starting again end of August, attending to all new COVID-protocols (while still doing my job as a Speech-Language Pathologist), pottery and getting ready for a puppy (YES! we are finally getting one)...life has been a...
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Creamy Bacon Kale Potato Soup for A Rainy Day (or Any Day) - Slow Cooker Recipe
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Creamy Bacon Kale Potato Soup for A Rainy Day (or Any Day) - Slow Cooker Recipe
I used to not like Kale. I wouldn't say I hated it but I found it bitter and weird. I didn't understand why people liked it so much, but recently I was surprised to find that I have grown to love Kale. A few years ago we started making crispy kale chips (super easy) from purchases at farmer's mar...
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Lower East Side Brunch Tart - Everyday Dorie Cookbook
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Lower East Side Brunch Tart - Everyday Dorie Cookbook
This week's Cook the Book Fridays is in memory of a fellow member Chez Nana/Ro who sadly passed away in June. Nana baked, blogged, commented on all our posts and even learned coding and photography for her blog at the age of 88. How amazing is that? This recipe - Lower East Side Brunch Tart ...
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Summer Vegetable Tian from Every Day Dorie
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Summer Vegetable Tian from Every Day Dorie
Hello! I am finally back at it with #cookthebookfridays! I missed joining in the fun over the past few months as it has been a bit crazy with us moving back from Ottawa to Edmonton (in the middle of a lockdown pandemic!) and then finding our own place to live again. After a few months it is nice ...
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Chaussons-aux-pommes Recipe from Duchess At Home Cookbook
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Duchess Bake Shop is not just some random highly acclaimed Edmonton-based bakery, it happens to be the bakery in the same city that I live in. It is not an exaggeration to say that I have ordered and eaten all their baked goods over the last decade. So, it was exciting in 2014 when one of the own...
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