Not a cake, but a hot sweet snack (via Gourmande in Osaka)

Baked sweet potatoes are the ideal Winter snack. Scienticists suspect that eating regularly sweet potatoes and soy would a key to Okinawan longevity. I wet them and bake them under the broiler of an oven toaster. The ideal is to cook them on steamed hot pebbles as they do in the streets of Japan, but that takes hours. 1 average potatoe : Cal: 114 F0.1g C26.8g P2.1g FR : Les patates douces au four, c'est le gouter d'hiver ideal. La texture moelleu … Read More

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Hatsuga Genmai (germinated rice) (via Gourmande in Osaka)

This is called "hatsuga genmai" in Japanese, literally "whole rice with a start of germination" and that's the healthiest way to prepare our rice. The taste is slightly closer to white rice than to brown rice. Why ? The common white rice is mostly starch. Certain white rices still contain their germs, it has more nutrients and elements. Brown rice still has a skin rich in fibers. "hatsuga genmai" has all of that and a very increased level of GABA … Read More

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