Waygu Fat Soft Chewy Caramels

This is a tale of a special caramel.  Caramels, as you must know, are those creamy, buttery, chewy, melt in your mouth and oh so darn delicious candies.  It’s amazing how simple they are to make, magic up some sugar and ta-da you have these lovely soft and chewy candies.

So back to our special caramel.  We’ve made caramels before but this time we tried something totally different.  Different how?  Well, what happened is that we got our greedy little hands on some wagyu fat.  Wagyu, yum, amiright, that totally luscious and ever so expensive marbled beef.  With this wee bit of waygu fat on our hands we were like, what should we do?  And, as it turns out, the answer was to make the most amazing caramels ever:  Waygu Fat Soft Chewy Caramels to die for!!

Cookie Butter Truffles

Oh the serendipitous luck of it all!  Leftover cookies, of all the things, as inspiration.  What started as a 'hummm...what should we do with these leftover cookies' train of thought turned into a fabulous new idea for Easter treats!  Leftovers cookies magically turned into ginger spiced cookie flavored centers delectably coated with creamy, buttery white chocolate, otherwise known as the fabulous Cookie Butter Truffles!

So, in addition to making our usual amazing Easter decorated sugar cookies, we also spun out these wonderfully elegant and easy to make Cookie Butter Truffles.   Something for the kids and something for the kidults, amiright?  OMgosh, these little truffles are totally gonna appear every Easter from now on, they are so scrummy!

Homemade Udon Noodles

Every time we go to the library I always end up with a pile of food books to take home and devour.  Recently I picked up a Japanese cookbook about simple Japanese home cooking and, while idly flipping through it, discovered a recipe for homemade udon.  YUMMY...we love udon noodles!  Hummm...but wouldn't making udon noodles be the opposite of 'simple'?

Turns out that it is really simple to make homemade udon!  Who knew, amiright?  And not only is it easy to make, but this homemade udon tastes SO GOOD: thick, firm and chewy, so slurp-able and freshly noodle-licious!!

Truth: I'm a wee bit addicted to these fabulous and fresh noodles...