Triple-Layer Christmas Chocolate Cake

Every morning, since few weeks ago, I feel pain in between my toes (fourth finger and pinkie).
I thought it might be a hard corn, but seems like callus...
Anyway, I shouldn't wear shoes that pinch my toes :(

Christmas is coming! So today, I will present one of my Christmas cakes: Triple-Layer Christmas Chocolate Cake!
This is not that difficult.
I used chocolate, coffee, and plain buttercream fillings for the thin chocolate sponge cakes.
Then I covered the cake in a chocolate coating, garnished with edible flowers (roses), and dusted them lightly with powdered sugar.

I posted this recipe at Lettuceclub (one of the sites I post recipes).
Few months ago, they put out a call for Christmas cake recipes.
There were more other themes as well and I created more than 40 recipes to challenge all, but none of them won prizes...
Ooops!!! Just moaning about it...

Here is the recipe.
Sorry in Japanese.
I will write in English if anyone wants.

Tomorrow I will show you my gorgeous Christmas cake :)
Bye Bye!

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Potato and Almond Potage

Hi!
Luckily, it's not that cold today :)

The new blog I mentioned yesterday is still having a problem with it's trackback function...
I don't know what to do, but I guess I will keep this up since I took time to set the layout!

Anyway, I posted a soup recipe there: Potato and Almond Potage!
The recipe is in Japanese... sorry.
I will write in English if anyone wants.

Almonds are a premier source of vitamin E. They are said as effective if taken with vitamin C, so I cooked with potatoes!
Vitamin E is an important antioxidant that may play a role in the prevention of many chronic diseases. One ounce of almonds (about 23 almonds) contains 35% of the Daily Value for vitamin E.

Actually, I have been on the "online almond program" in May an learned a little about almonds.
Since then, I use the almonds by necessity.
You can learn about the almonds here!

This is all for today!
See you tomorrow.

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Christmas Tofu

This morning, I saw a high-school girl handing a love letter to a boy at the train station!
She ran away with the other girl romping around.
How young are they!!!
I was sooooo excited, remembering my high school days :)
And what was funny is that I found many people (especially women) were staring at them like me!

Anyway, on Friday, my Christmas Tofu was introduced at Megami's Recipes site again!
I used nutmeg, soy sauce, grated ginger, black vinegar and black pepper to season the spinach. Then I topped it on tofu, and decorated with colored peppers.
Recipe in Japanese is here.
I will write in English if anyone wants.

Sorry I am always talking about the recipes couple of days ago...
I have a lot to present!

Different story.
Today, I created a new blog to enter the contest held at Recipe Blog (they mainly trackback the recipe related articles.)
Actually, I don't have a Japanese blog since I have so many places to post my work, such as Cookpad, Lettuceclub etc...
But this time, participants were limited to the blog author, so I created one.
However, blogspot doesn't have trackback feature, so I needed to make an account at Haloscan to send a trackback ping.
It seems like not working properly though...
I have to solve the problem...
It's a long way...

Anyway, I hope I can manage all and I shouldn't increase my work any more.

Bye for now!

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