Penguin Snacks Jan 20, 2018 4 min Crunchyroll #76: Reindeer Soup from “Ancient Magus’ Bride” Learn how to make it here! OK, let’s address the elephant in the room. Or, rather, the reindeer in the room. I know eating reindeer, for...
Penguin Snacks Nov 13, 2017 5 min Crunchyroll #70: Beef Wellington from Ancient Magus Bride Learn how to make it here! When Chise arrives in Elias’ home, she is offered an abundance of food. As a food blogger that focuses on...
Penguin SnacksNov 3, 20184 minCrunchyroll #110: A Human Body (thanks Full Metal Alchemist!Read the original post here. Or read it down below: As an anime food blogger, I LOVE recipes. I mean, seriously! If I see some awesome anime food, the best thing I can possibly find is a recipe to go along with it so that I don’t have to make anything totally by scratch. It’s a huge lifesaver, because it saves me a lot of time researching, and time planning on what to do and how to do it. Normally, I look for recipes for actual food items, but amazingly enough, there are some
Penguin SnacksNov 3, 20185 minCrunchyroll #108: The Occult Club’s Spooky Cookies from “Asobi Asobase”!Read the original post here. Or read it below: Asobi Asobase – workshop of fun – is an amazing comedy show, and if you aren’t watching it, you should be! Why, you may ask? Besides all the hilarious middle school hijinks the girls get up to, there’s also COOKIE DECORATING involved, which I am 100% here for. Obviously. In episode 11, the Occult Club gets down to business to create some spooky cookies for the multicultural fair. They decide on broomsticks, witch’s hats…and mice
Penguin SnacksNov 3, 20183 minCrunchyroll #107: Daifuku Meets Pumpkin Spice!Read the original post here. Or read it below: Well, it’s that time of year again. Time for crunchy leaves, and sweaters, and, of course, the dreaded PUMPKIN SPICE WAVE of mass hysteria that descends on the average American town at this time each year. I’ll admit, I like the pumpkin spice flavoring in small doses, and I wondered if I could find a way to bring this fall food trend into my anime recipes. Now, the inspiration for this dish comes from my last trip to Japan. Last
Penguin SnacksNov 3, 20183 minCrunchyroll #105: Futoshi’s Bread from “Darling in the FranXX”Read the original post here. Or read the post down below: Darling in the FranXX, most people I think can agree, was A SHOW that HAPPENED to a lot of people in a lot of different ways. For me, the most interesting thing Darling had to offer was Futoshi’s bread in like the very last episode, far in the future when they’re all living happily on a replenished Earth. Overall, the plot thread focusing on Earth’s renewal and attempts to rebuild got a little lost amidst all the space
Penguin SnacksNov 3, 20183 minCrunchyroll #104: Luke’s Tiramisu from “Phantom in the Twilight”Find the original post here. Or read the post down below: Phantom in the Twilight is the kind of show I think a lot of people have been sleeping on. It’s seems to be catering towards the kind of audience who would love something spooky and mildly trivial, like Ouran High Host Club. Is it the most in depth comprehensive show I’ve ever watched? Definitely not, but the characters are fun and the plot is moving along quite nicely. What’s not to love about a classic magical girl s
Penguin SnacksAug 28, 20183 minCrunchyroll #101: Curry from “Golden Kamuy”Read the original post here. OR read below The minute I saw this curry, I knew I had to make it. I’ve never done a recipe from any earlier than the 1950s, so I was looking forward to the experience of making something from a looong time ago (I mean, relatively). Apparently, the earliest Japanese curry recipe was published in a 1872 cookbook about Western cuisine, in which there were two curry recipes: one for beef and one for chicken. At first glance, it actually doesn’t see
Penguin SnacksAug 28, 20183 minCrunchyroll #96: Fried Eggplant from “Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi”Read the original post here. OR read below! If you haven’t been watching Kakuriyo -Bed & Breakfast for Spirits-, I suggest you jump on that before we move in earnest into the new season of anime. To say that it’s been very inspiring to me is a bit of an understatement- I’ve been loving every single episode. This will NOT be the last food I make from this anime…. Sorry, not sorry. I can hear you asking me: Emily, fine, whatever, watch all the anime you want, but why are you so
Penguin SnacksAug 28, 20184 minCrunchyroll #94: Aoi’s Stewed Pork Belly from “Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi”Read the original post here. OR read below! Everyone loves bacon. This is an unequivocal fact. It cannot be denied. Well, even if it’s not true, bacon went through a huge cultural reckoning in America from about 2005–2015, and honestly I’m surprised that pork belly, the cut of meat bacon hails from, didn’t become more popular as a result of that. The whole slab of pork is delicious – a pretty even distribution of fat to meat that lends itself well to crisping and slow cooking
Penguin SnacksAug 28, 20183 minCrunchyroll #93: Onsen Tamago from “Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi”Read the original post here. Or read below! Onsen tamago is a dish that’s a bit confusing when first translated. It means “hot spring egg,” which you’re probably thinking is a fancy name for a special kind of egg dish, but actually, it just means that it’s an egg cooked in a hot spring. Yes, you heard me right. Just as some Americans try to fry eggs on sidewalks (though admittedly for fun, no so much to eat), some onsens in Japan make eggs cooked in what is essentially bath w
Penguin SnacksMay 28, 20183 minAsirpa’s Yuk Ohaw from “Golden Kamuy”Asirpa’s cooking in Golden Kamuy is definitely a level beyond what I typically accomplish in the kitchen. It’s the ultimate farm-to-food cooking: She hunts, she kills, she eats. Not only that, but she eats well. If Sugimoto’s reactions are anything to go by, it’s clear that Aspira can cook some pretty darn good food. I’ve been dying to try some of the meals from Golden Kamuy, but there are two main problems: 1) Fresh food/game meat availability (I don’t live in a place where
Penguin SnacksMay 28, 20184 minCrunchyroll #91: Million Dollar Cocktail from “Hinamatsuri”Hinamatsuri is a masterpiece of an anime, and my favorite thing about it may be Hitomi, the middle school bartender. As unethical as this seems (and is), Hitomi has an entrancing charm about her when mixing drinks! I don’t know what it is about her, but everything she makes seems like it’ll be the best drink ever. But how can a middle school girl look so professional??? At first I thought that the magic was all in the drink recipe. After all, if you follow a recipe, you can’t
Penguin SnacksMay 28, 20184 minCrunchyroll #90: Bamboo Shoot Gratin from “Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family”Shirou from Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family, of Fate/Stay Night fame, is quite the cook. I’ve remarked on this before, but I think it’s pretty awesome. In the Fate/Stay anime, he’s so cool and battle-ready! It’s fun to see him in the kitchen cooking up something delicious, and this week he coincidentally gives us the PERFECT dish to make for your mom this Mother’s Day- Bamboo Gratin, a creamy, cheesy, pasta and bamboo dish. This recipe is simple, delicious, yet elegant at t
Penguin SnacksMay 28, 20184 minCrunchyroll #86: Tempura Egg Don from “Food Wars”I don’t know about you, but if you watched the first episode of the second part of Food Wars! The Third Plate and was shocked and awed like I was, I am going to assume it’s because you also never knew that you could freeze eggs and then COOK with them. RIGHT? I was just so fascinated by cooking with frozen eggs, I immediately bumped the scheduled post that was going to go up today in order to make this and share it with you guys. Eager as any beaver that ever lived, I went ou
Penguin SnacksMay 28, 20182 minCrunchyroll # 84: WcDonald’s BurgerOne of the first anime I ever got into was Inuyasha, which has a lot of charming features. But the one that stuck with me the most was the WcDonald’s burger that Kagome visited often with her friends. Being fairly new to anime, I was also new to the concept of taking popular brands and altering the names juuuust a tiny bit so that the production wouldn’t get sued. The idea of WcDonald’s being a discount version of McDonald’s just made me laugh – the duplicity wasn’t even hard
Penguin SnacksMar 17, 20185 minCrunchyroll #82: German Ramen from “Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles”Learn how to make it here! Koizumi from Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles is a ramen connoiseur – a true ramen foodie who will stop at nothing to have her ramen and eat it too. In this episode, Koizumi treats a lost child to a bowl of ramen, straight from the Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum. It is only after the fact that she returns the child, but hey, if I was lost, I’d probably enjoy having a hearty bowl of ramen. The child’s mother, overwhelmed by gratitude, gives Koizumi a tick
Penguin SnacksMar 17, 20183 minCrunchyroll #81: Salmon in Foil from “Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family”Learn how to make it here! Lots of people have wanted to see our favorite anime characters in situations outside their normal show. I mean, this is why fanfiction exists – so that people can put their favorite characters into new and unusual situations. So it makes perfect sense to me that Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family is as popular as it is. It seems like everyone is charmed to pieces by it, and they love watching Shirou prepare food for the family, with good reason – th
Penguin SnacksFeb 19, 20184 minCrunchyroll #80: One-Pot Pasta from Laid Back CampLearn how to make it here! We’ve all seen those one-pot pasta meals floating around the internet, right? Just chuck everything into a pan and voila! A delicious and super easy meal emerges! Well, who knew such a thing would make its way into an anime? I certainly wasn’t expecting it when this recipe showed up in Laid-Back Camp, but I really felt compelled to make it when the show practically outlined the entire recipe from start to finish. I mean, how much easier could it get
Penguin SnacksFeb 19, 20184 minCrunchyroll #79: Cheesecake from CCS Clear Card ArcRead below, or learn how to make it here! It’s no secret that Cardcaptor Sakura is one of my favorite series, so of course when I saw this cheesecake being made by Sakura, Kero, and Tomoyo, I knew I had to give it a try. I mean, they even gave us the recipe in the anime- how could I resist? First step…get someone to translate this for me. I speak and read a little Japanese, but not enough to read a whole recipe. Luckily for me, I have a few friends who are fluent, so I enlist
Penguin SnacksFeb 2, 20184 minCrunchyroll #78: Soma’s Venison from “Food Wars!”Learn how to make it here. Here we are again, another one of Soma’s recipes, another chance for me to lose my mind, cooking my life away in my non-professional grade kitchen. I gotta say, I love cooking food from Food Wars! because of the challenges it presents, but I also have to say that it can be really tough trying to recreate the food from this show using a kitchen that is barely adequate for more than the basic home cook would need, let alone an aspiring gourmet chef. N
Penguin SnacksFeb 2, 20184 minCrunchyroll # 77: Pineapple Ramen from “Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen”Learn how to make it here. Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen, at the outset, seems like an innocent and harmless anime. It is a nice little show about a girl, Koizumi-san, who, you guessed it, LOVES ramen. A lot. I’m honestly not sure how she’s able to consume so much ramen, sometimes up to an estimated 5 times a day. I mean, I’m a fan of ramen, but that seems… a little extreme. That’s not the end of it, though! She loves ALL KINDS of ramen. Ramen and burger combinations? Check. Super
