Easy Summer Watermelon Cake

You can throw this cake together with minimal cake decorating knowledge. Plus it’s super cute! You could get all profesh and go the fondant route, but you don’t need to. This gets the watermelon point across fine! Use any yellow or white cake recipe / even a box mix. Get out some food coloring and …

Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

Chocolate + banana bread? What’s not to like? Yes, yes, there are banana bread purists out there, I know—I was one of them. Plain banana bread with spices or a crumble topping was as far as I’d go. Thing is, I had some bananas that needed to be used and a mad chocolate craving. So …

Simple Sushi Rice

I love making vegetable rolls at home, it makes me feel fancy! Of course I’m too chicken and unqualified to make actual raw fish sushi. I could add some cooked salmon or crab though. Vegetable sushi or maki rolls usually have ingredients like cucumber (kappa), carrots, avocado, sweet potato, tempura vegetables, lettuce, or asparagus. Really …

Vegetable Okonomiyaki

Any American anime fan worth his salt knows about the food in their favorite anime or manga. The top 7 would be Japanese curry, katsu, tomagoyaki, omurice, sushi, ramen, and okonomiyaki. Of course being nowhere near a Japanese restaurant that serves okonomiyaki, I have to make it myself with a limited American pantry. Now if …

Healthy Vegetable Sandwich

Tomatoes, avocados, red onion, lettuce and smear of cream cheese on 2 toasted slices of Ezekiel bread.  Works well as a breakfast or lunch. Well, well, well, what is this? You know how to make healthy foods?  Yeah. What of it! Sometimes you just gotta eat some healthy food to make room for all the …