{"id":39587,"date":"2016-04-01T17:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T21:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=39587"},"modified":"2017-02-01T01:46:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T05:46:55","slug":"ill-make-it-myself-black-sesame-and-pear-muffins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/01\/ill-make-it-myself-black-sesame-and-pear-muffins\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Make It Myself!: Black Sesame and Pear Muffins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LM (CIR\u00a0Ishikawa-ken, Anamizu, 2009-11) is the editor of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ishikawajet.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/07\/master-cooking-in-japan-with-the-ishikawa-kitchen\/\">The Ishikawa JET Kitchen: Cooking in Japan Without a Fight<\/a><\/strong>.<em>\u00a0Ze works in international student exchange;<\/em><em>\u00a0writes\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/illmakeitmyself.net\/\"><strong>I\u2019ll Make It Myself!<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/illmakeitmyself.net\/\">,<em>\u00a0a blog about food culture in Japan and the US; curates\u00a0<em>The\u00a0<\/em><\/em><\/a><em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/category\/category\/category\/category\/2012\/03\/18\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/rice-cooker-chronicles\/\"><strong>Rice Cooker Chronicles<\/strong><\/a>, a series of essays by JETs and JET alumni on the theme of cooking\/eating and being alone in Japan; and admins\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?gid=4803196&amp;trk=myg_ugrp_ovr\">The JET Alumni Culinary Group<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0on LinkedIn.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Have I told you, dear readers, how much I love Lottie and Doof\u2018s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lottieanddoof.com\/2012\/03\/black-sesame-and-pear-tea-cake\/\">\u201cBlack Sesame and Pear Cake\u201d<\/a>? When I could get Western pears, I loved making that cake in Japan, where black sesame is a common ice cream and <em>wagashi<\/em> flavor. I wanted to adapt the flavors of this cake into something smaller, less sweet, and more portable for weekday breakfasts, hence the muffins.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 614px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/illmakeitmyself.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/03\/black-sesame-and-pear-muffins-ill-make-it-myself-1.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"403\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/illmakeitmyself.net\/2016\/03\/19\/black-sesame-and-pear-muffins\/\">Via I&#8217;ll Make It Myself!<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/illmakeitmyself.net\/2016\/03\/19\/black-sesame-and-pear-muffins\/\">Click HERE to read MORE.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LM (CIR\u00a0Ishikawa-ken, Anamizu, 2009-11) is the editor of\u00a0The Ishikawa JET Kitchen: Cooking in Japan Without a Fight.\u00a0Ze works in international student exchange;\u00a0writes\u00a0I\u2019ll Make It Myself!,\u00a0a blog about food culture in Japan and the US; curates\u00a0The\u00a0Rice Cooker Chronicles, a series of essays by JETs and JET alumni on the theme of cooking\/eating and being alone in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,70,396,6],"tags":[1246,1060,822,460],"class_list":["post-39587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-food-drink","category-ill-make-it-myself","category-writers","tag-black-sesame","tag-breakfast","tag-muffins","tag-recipe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-aiv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39587"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40892,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39587\/revisions\/40892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}