September Cooking & Baking

Here is September cooking & baking that I missed writing about:

Mabo Dofu with no chili paste or sauce !

I don't have any good spices/condiments stocked up yet, but wanted to eat mabo dofu. 

What I used is what I had: Paprika powder, ketchup, soysauce, left over packet of chili powder from a instant noodle, tofu, meat, garlic, etc...

This was pretty awesome and fatening. 

"Minchi Katsu" Ground meat katsu. Basically, fried ground meat!

It has some chopped cabbage in it, which makes it a little healthy. 

The second picture of the inside have cheese in it. The inside picture doesn't look that great, but it tasted good.

It's good with just some Worcestershire sauce poured on, or with other sauce. One that I made is just ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, mayonnaise, and mustard.

 Attempted to make some bagels. 

Bagels are hard to make!

Especially the shaping part.

These didn't turn out so well.

Bread! Attempted to imitate the rolls you get at some steakhouse places.

This was pretty fluffy.

WT and I were talking about okonomiyaki and I decided to attempt it.

I needed to find "Nagaimo", a some type of yam. 

I found "Malanga" which I thought was yam but I now think it's not.

I think this okonomiyaki turned out pretty well.

I still need to find where I can get Nagaimo.

I am trying to practice making melon pan for a bake sale this week.

I used a recipe from Cooking With Dog on youtube!

This one is just a roll. Used the same recipe form Cooking With Dog melon pan. 

Still trying to practice.

For the past few days the weather is becoming really cool!

It just means that summer ended for sure. 

But not too long ago, it was still pretty warm outside.

So sometimes I put the bread dough outside to rest.

Being in the warmer temperature, the dough rises faster.

I was thinking there was something positive living in the hot weather in September. 

That is gone now, I have a feeling the weather is just going to get cooler from now on.