Quick Spinach Cannanoli

Sorry guys, been very busy. n-o-t-i-m-e-t-o-b-r-e-a-d-t-h!

Over the weekend managed to make this and it was simple and quick. Surprisingly DH liked it so much that he requested for it to be on the weekly weekend menu!! Also as much as Master Prince protested that he hated spinach blah-blah and giving me i'm-being-poisoned-faced...he polished it up. All you need is some spinach (fresh or frozen). If using fresh, you will need to wash and blanch the spinach in hot water for about 4 min, drain and immediately plug into cold water, gently squeeze out excess water from spinach. In a bowl, mix spinach with your preference of feta or ricotta and olives or anchovies. Stuff them into the cannanoli (tube) pasta. Using Leggo's bottled classic bolognaise sauce, spread some sauce thinly at the bottom of an oven/heat-proof dish, place the stuffed pasta on top and layer another thin layer of the bolognaise sauce or if you wish, can use white/cream sauce. Spread some shredded cheese of your choice on top and bake in preheated oven at 220C degrees for about 30min until the cheese is melty and golden in colour.

There you go, a very quick healthy chessy affair!

Patisseri Sadaharu Aoki @ Tokyo

Like Sugino, Sadaharu Aoki came highly recommended. He has a few outlets in Tokyo so more accessible - Mid-town @ Roppongi, Isetan and Shin-Kokusai Bldg @
Ginza. He also have other 'international' shops located in Paris and Taipei.

Managed to visit all 3 shops in Tokyo, quite coincidentally actually as was around the area.

The 1st shop I went to was at Shin-Kokusai Building - got a little lost as I was walking from Tokyo Station. Its actually not that far if you know where to go. Having found the shop, the easiest would be to stop at Yurakucho Station, exit D3.

What a relieve when I found the shop - my feet were aching and was glad I could finally sit down and enjoy a coffee and of course a 'sweet treat'! ;p

This was a sneak photo of the shop - not allowed to take pictures except for the food ordered (sigh).

The man himself!

I think Japanese love chocolates, judging by the many chocoloate shops around.

There were quite a large selection of desserts to choose from and since didn't want to overload myself (as I had other venues to go to), finally settled for a salted caramel macaroon (Y250) and macha eclair (Y600).

The eclair was very good, not too sweet (which means that I could have devoured more but unfortunately when I was there and also other outlets there were only macha and chocolate 'Valentine' flavours much to my dissapointment). So this trip, didn't manage to try the yuzu, black sesame and cassis as recommended by ChubbyHubby, next trip I guess.

For aspiring bakers, this is the back view of the eclair.


Address:
@ Shin-Kokusai Bldg. 1F 3-4-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Transport Yurakucho Station (Yamanote, Keihin-Tohoku Lines) / Yurakucho Station (Yurakucho Line : D3 Exit) / Hibiya Station (Mita Line : B3 Exit)

@ Midtown branch, unit 13 in the basement 3-4-1 Shinkokusai BLD Marunouchi,chiyoda-ku Tokyo.

@ Isetan 3-14-1, Shinjuku, Tokyo.