Travel Logs
Mr. Panettone from Milan
Christmas is coming again! Let's go to Milan and try Italian Christmas bread or leavened cake called "Panettone". Milan is a capital of fashion and design in Europe. It is a very busy city starting when you arrive at the main train station like other metropolitan cities:
The interior of this building looks very nice and clean:
The Mystery of the Dark Sauces
Having a hard decision of what you are going to add into your food? Curious? What are the ingredients and usages? Let's look at the basic types of dark sauces:
The little man from Luxembourg
Size: 3 cm
Height: 2.5-2.8 cm
It looks like a sweet mini sandwich, generally composed of 2 pieces of sweet meringue-based confection and 1 layer of ganache with other ingredients such as champagne, chocolate, vanille, exotic fruits and nuts. What is it? Let's go to Luxembourg:
Chinese Medicine Soup
A Chinese origin soup which contains wolfberry, it is a fruit of Lycium barbarum (Lycos = wolf in Greek, Barbarum = somewhere else) or Matrimony vine from Ningxia where the majority of "Goji berries" are harvested and produced there. It has many other names such as wolfberry, boxthorn, Himalayan/Tibetan Goji (Gojibeeren/Bocksdorn = Thorn of goat or Getrocknete Bocksdorn-Beeren in German, Baies de goji séchées in French, gugija in Korea).
Samurai Bread
Konichiwa! Let's start with a historical bread from Japan called "Anpan". Anpan is a typical Japanese sweet bread, filled with azuki (red bean) paste. It sounds strange that the creator of this bread was samurai. How come?