REVIEW: Healthy Chocolate Brownie Recipe | Tanya Burr

Since the other day M was leaving JP.......(I was really sentimental. Itll be definitely a great experience for her, but I miss her and I wanna be there with her. I miss UK soooo much) I wanted to bake a cake. Actually I wanted to make coconut cake but it can be melted easily. I've got soooo many things to do tmr so I have to carry cake almost all day long....

So I chose Tanya's recipe since it won't be melted easily.

You can watch her video to make it :)

Ingredients

- 1/2 cup Coconut Oil
- 300g Dark Chocolate (you can use 150g milk & 150g dark if you don't like too much dark chocolate - I love it though as I think the dark chocolate makes it taste like rich chocolate pudding!)
- 2 cups Coconut Sugar (you can replace this with regular caster sugar 
or brown sugar if you want to! I just use Coconut sugar as it's better for you.)
- cap full of Vanilla Extract
- 1 cup Ground Almonds
- 1 mashed Avocado
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 3 Eggs

One good feature of this recipe is you can mix everything in a pot. You don't need many bowls to mix everything. Washing friendly :)

I made this late at night after a busy part time job. I couldn't taste it properly. I was really nervous it's taste but E said it was really nice. I decided to believe her opinion!

Always saying goodbye is hard and strange. I'm not good at imagining what it would be after saying goodbye. I kinda think all the time I let go myself as the time pasts without feeling special things which is very sad and unfortunate. I just can't express myself well. 

Now she's gone! I really hope her all the best....!!!!

Well it's very difficult to write these things.... 

Anyway today was a farewell day.
I really hope her all the best XXXX

GODIVA Sables Chocolat/ゴディバ サブレショコラ

Guess what's inside????

GODIVA Sables Chocolat!!!!!!!!!

ゴディバ　サブレチョコレート！！！

My mum is seriously addicted to GODIVA. She just loves their chocolate. Of course their chocolate is amazing but these sables are just fantastic!!!!

They are like solid macaroon. They were sold during last winter collection but they are back now!!!! Mum and I thought we wouldn't be able to eat these again, bought several boxes in March. hahaha
Now they've got new flavors like Dark chocolate & almond, Strawberry & white chocolate, Mango & white chocolate, Cassis & white chocolate. Their color is so pretty and taste amazing!!

私のままはほんとにゴディバにはまってて、もうかれこれ６年くらい笑

もちろんゴディバのチョコはめっちゃおいしんだけど、そのゴディバの商品で一押しなのがこのサブレショコラ。３月くらいまでの限定商品で売ってたんだけどまた夏に復活！！！やった～！！！

しかし、３月増税前だしもう２度と食べれなくなるかもということでその時ちょっとだけ買占め笑

でもまた売り始めた！！！笑

今回は新しい、ダークチョコ＆アーモンド、ストロベリー＆ホワイトチョコレート、マンゴー＆ホワイトチョコレート、カシス＆ホワイトチョコレート、が追加！

めっちゃカラフルだしギフトにもすっごく最適！

By the way, about a brand GODIVA, as far as I know, GODIVA is a quite posh chocolate brand in Japan. When you buy a piece of chocolate by your choice, staffs pack them with white gloves!!! However, when I went to America, I bought some boxes of GODIVA chocolate at an airport. I opened them when I got home. The chocolate inside was totally mess. Many of them were up side down. Their color is a bit strange..... I concluded that GODIVA in America is not that much a high brand.... Maybe?? Is it true? How do you think GODIVA?? 

Anyway I'm gonna eat one of the sable from now on hehehehe X

Afternoon Tea in the U.K. and Japan

Well I think I did mention I was in the U.K. but I didn't say why I was there properly.
Yeah it doesn't have a big history behind but anyway I was in the U.K. for one year as an exchange student. oh it was the best time in my life.....
Since I'm in Japan now, I miss Europe in general a lot every single day.... I know! I have to stop thinking negative! haha
So there are plenty of stories and thing I'd like to share with you here but I've been really busy and I'm having difficult time to find good photos for this blog. Now I regret a lot that I didn't take a lot of photos during the best time of my life.... :( Let's say I was busy with enjoying it! yes!

One thing I really enjoyed is afternoon tea!!!! If I say this, some people might think 'Oh is that because you are Japanese? Do Japanese people drink tea? No no green tea! Just a tea!' The answer is YES! hahaha We do drink tea. I'd say afternoon tea is not popular.

My first afternoon tea was at Browns.

I was really fascinated by cottage cream. Yummy!!! 

This one was at a posh hotel in London. I can't remember the name. I guess it was the most expensive afternoon tea I've experienced in the U.K.. This was amazing! Sandwiches were all-you-ca-eat. My friend and I got excited and went to the second round. After we finished the afternoon tea, I was really really really full. This is the thing we've got to be careful with afternoon tea. You get unbelievably FULL! To be honest, at that time, I felt a bit ill because I was really full which sounds hilarious, so we went to Hyde Park and I had a nap to digest. haha 

This one was also in London. can't remember the name again. 

This one is at a Marriott hotel in Bristol. To tell you the truth, on that day, my friend and I were suffering hangover. haha We got up and took shower and talking, 'ok you've got to do something! otherwise, we'll end up staying home doing nothing!' So we went out even though the weather was terrible. 

I did afternoon tea a lot when I was in the U.K.. 
It is imaginable I miss a lot about it. So I went out to try aternoon tea in Japan!

This was at Imperial hotel Tokyo. (Updated!) I really like this afternoon tea because they have cold flavored tea as well! You can see them in this pic. The shop is located in the top floor of the hotel so that you can see a nice view of Tokyo. (Personally I don't think Tokyo view is not beautiful just a lot of skyscrapers anyway) The most impressive thing of this afternoon is its service. Once you finish your tea, you don't have to ask for your another tea because a staff notice it just right before you finish yours! This timing is very difficult because if the stuff comes early, the customer feel they have to be hurry so they cannot relax tea time. So I was really surprised their level of service.

This was at Conrad hotel Tokyo on my birthday! My besties took me here :) I love them!

These sweets were cutely assembled and tasted amazing. However, I personally prefer afternoon tea with there floors....?? I don't know the name of the thing for afternoon tea....

I really wanna do afternoon tea outside in a garden one day....

ok I've gotta goooooooooo! bye!

武蔵野茶房、お芋パフェ

タカノフルーツパーラーのパフェよりも好きな、武蔵野茶房のお芋パフェ！！！

冷たいアイスとあっためてあるスイートポテトが最高（*^_^*）

普通のフルーツのパフェとかは、上にちょこっとフルーツが乗っててあとはコーンフレークと謎のゼリーと生クリームをひたすら食べる感じだけど、これはお芋を食べてます！って感じですごい満足感！

前は上のソフトクリームを固めのアイスにも変更できたけどもうやめたみたい。個人的にはソフトクリームの方があうと思うからよかった！

お花がひとつづつちゃんとついてくるのもかわいい！！
お芋が嫌いじゃなかったら是非食べてみて！

おはぎ Ohagi

このあいだおはぎつくった！！

もちごめを買うのはなんだか気が引けて、もちごめを使わないでおはぎって作れるのかしらってレシピ検索していたら、切りもちとお米を一緒に炊くという素晴らしいアイディアのレシピを載せている人がいたのでやってみた！

もちろんお米だから手に水をつけないとべとべとくっつくし、だからといって水気が多すぎるとぐちゃぐちゃで形をつくりづらいし形を整えるのが難しかった！
私はまわりもあんこのおはぎ好きじゃないからきなこと、せっかくだからカラフルに抹茶をつけてみようと思ったの。グリンティーの粉だとあまり色がつかなかったからお抹茶用の抹茶をつけたらちょっと苦すぎて笑ちゃんと砂糖をまぜなきゃなって再確認。

なぜかとってもインターナショナルなお皿を使ってた私です・・・この男の子がいいね！笑

なかにはあんこが入ってます。ふつうにおいしくてまたつくろ～と思いました（*^_^*）

I made Ohagi the other day. Be ware that my English is not good enough but I'm gonna tell you about Ohagi this time ;)
Ohagi looks like a rice ball but it has red bean paste inside. It seem like normally people call this as Botamochi. Botamochi and Ohagi are very identical but as far as I know, ohagi is made in Autum. Therefore I should say 'I made botamochi' but personally I like to call them as ohagi. haha I cook normal Japanese rice with some rice cakes. Because of rice cakes, the whole rice becomes a bit sticky. I made it into a ball shape and put red beans paste inside. Normally, ohagi is covered by azuki (read bean paste) or kinako. I don't like one covered by azuki so I made kinako ones and matcha ones to make them a bit colorful :)

Oh my English friend said they look like chicken nuggets! Really?
What do you think??? X