Cream corn is a family favorite that I only make for Thanksgiving and again for Christmas. Occasionally, it may also make a surprise appearance at Easter. This home made cream corn is simple to make and not as time-consuming as some of our other holiday favorites. It’s a great side dish when you’re also responsible for cooking six or more dishes. It’s one of those side dishes that you can make ahead of time, reheat, and...

  This year, our Halloween celebration was a bit impromptu, resulting in a quick lunch at Wahoo’s for Aya-chan, Bebe E and I and trick-or-treating on-the-fly at a few retailers at the mall before nap-time. It wasn’t the typical Halloween celebration I enjoyed as a child, but Bebe E had a blast and it was fun to watch her enjoy herself so much. Our plans to trick-or-treat in the neighborhood at dusk were foiled by an exhausted and...

M.I.A. Alright, this is the last post of my “China Adventures” series and I’ve been meaning to draft this post for over a month, but I honestly haven’t had the time or the motivation to sit down and write.  It was perhaps two weekends ago when I had brunch with a few of my best girlfriends and one of them told me that she wasn’t receiving my posts via email anymore. Uh… I told her that was because I...

Our adventures in China just keep on goin’! On the third leg of our trip we visited the City of Guilin in the Guangxi Prefecture which is located in Southern China, near the border of Vietnam. Our visit to Guilin was our chance to see the beautiful countryside of China. When we arrived in Guilin, we finally experienced the very hot and humid weather we had anticipated in China. Despite the heat, I found Guilin to be quite delightful only...

Since last week’s post  when I started sharing our recent travel adventures to China, I thought about coasting through the next few travel posts without sharing any recipes, but that would defeat the purpose of my foodie blog / ongoing digital family cookbook project, a.k.a Bebe Love Okazu. I got away with it the last post with Part I: Beijing, and no recipe, but I will start this post by sharing the second leg of our trip, Xian, and...

Home sweet home! Sunny blue skies and mild California weather. Love it! AND there’s nothing like sleeping in your own bed after a long trip. For two weeks, my family and I were half-way across the world sightseeing in China with my in-laws. Bet you didn’t even notice I was gone, huh? I drafted a few blog posts prior to our departure and scheduled these to be published while we were on vacation. Sneaky, huh? :)   North Beijing...

Agedashi tofu is one of my favorite Japanese appetizers. We order this regularly if we happen to be dining at a Japanese restaurant, but interestingly, it’s not something my Mom made for us when we were growing up. I think this is because the tofu is fried. On a good note, it’s only fried for 3 to 4 minutes. (Does that really make a difference? Probably not, if it’s fried, it’s fried, right!) Big Onechan also loves...

The convenience of having a Japanese supermarket near my home is that I can pop on over to the store to pick-up a few things, but more importantly, I can buy sashimi for a really simple and quick dinner. We don’t feed Big Onechan sashimi since her idea of sushi is an avocado roll or tamago, and Bebe E is too young for sashimi, but when I need a quick dinner for Bebe Dada and I, my go-to item is inexpensive wild maguro (tuna) from the...