Bacon on a cupcake. SERIOUSLY!

I have to say that cooking is my favorite thing to do BUT I do also like baking a little. The only thing I don't like about it is that you have to be so exact with certain things otherwise things can go really wrong. Honestly.. I think either baking SODA or baking POWDER should change their names. It can sometimes make things confusing especially when you read recipes fast(woops).

About once every few months I go on these big baking marathons but recently they have been more frequent which seems to be fine with my family. It's good that I live with people to eat it all. Tonight was by far my longest. I made one dozen muffins, two dozen cupcakes and 47 cookies. It's half I didn't want to go to sleep and half that we need baking around the house because it's the holidays!

This is a cupcake I decided to make tonight. It is a chocolate cayenne cupcake with cayenne glaze and candied bacon on top. The recipe will be on Girl About Town next month.

Oatmeal, cranberry, raisin and sun flower seed cookie and raisin and banana muffin. Both of these can be found on Google.

All the cookies.

Cupcakes and muffins

The whole batch.

What do you like to bake?

-Marielle

Remembering my favorite meals

Growing up in a Japanese family we often went out for Japanese food, had it at Winnipeg's Japanese Cultural Center and my favorite was New Years day. New Years day my dad's side of the family would get together and eat tuna sashimi, inari, futomaki, vegetable tempura, teriyaki chicken and chowmein. It was probably my favorite meal besides my grandma Sasaki's Christmas dinner.

The last one we had a few years ago was out of this world. In Sasaki tradition we of course had WAY too much food. Here are some pictures from that night.

My uncle Chris cutting the tuna for sashimi.

My uncle Les making the inari.

Me making maki.

All the rolls.

My auntie Sandy's beautiful setup. 

Another view of the table.

My uncle Ian set up the sake.

My uncle Chris also made soba.

Inari and rolls together.

I believe my dad made the chicken.

The whole family together. From right to left: Auntie Lee, late uncle Fred, uncle Chris, uncle Les, uncle Ian, sister Danielle, cousin Cam, Dad and myself. I believe my auntie Sandy is taking the picture.

What was your favorite family meal while growing up?

-Marielle