This weekend I overindulged in food, some of it was really bad for me – like the Hamburger Doritos and fried wontons. Saturday night we celebrated three of my best girlfriends’ birthdays and we ate crab and temaki sushi. I love these girls – they REALLY know how to eat. :) I forgot to take pictures of the crab but here’s our temaki spread. Sunday night we watched the Lakers game with Yin-yin and Pa-paw (Bebe...
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I love Spring! Flowers are in bloom, birds are singing in the morning, days are longer, air is warmer…AND the Lakers are in the Playoffs. Spring absolutely rocks when the Lakers are on the road to the Championships! Born and raised in Los Angeles, I am a hard-core Laker fan. Always have been, always will be. Lakers play a huge role in the social events of my family and friends. When all of my friends lived nearby, Laker...
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In my Dr. Sears’ “The Baby Book”, avocado is listed as a favorite first food, but it was my friend and RN (nurse G) that I recall telling me, “avocados are a superfood”. We had lunch over a year ago when she brought out half an avocado and started scooping out the flesh of a ripe avocado into a little bowl for mashing – baby guacamole! I almost forgot about baby guacamole until I saw it in “The...
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Cheesy garlic bread is a favorite in our family on spaghetti night. Not too long ago I made spaghetti with meat sauce and I ALMOST forgot to post spaghetti’s best friend – that’s right, easy cheesy garlic bread you can make at home. OK, I did forget but I remembered… 2 weeks later. That’s just how my life is – or ,maybe that’s just how my scatter-brained memory is. :) Oh, and Bebe Dada...
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On Saturday, April 3, 2010 Big Onechan and I colored eggs with our baby nephew Q, Auntie M and Bebe Dada. Bebe E was taking an extended nap and woke-up as soon as we were finished – oh well. We ended up with a beautiful basket of colorful eggs. :) What do you do with all of the hard-boiled eggs that you colored for Easter? With our colored eggs, I decided to make deviled eggs. My mother-in-law made some yesterday with chopped...
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When I was little my dad used to make SPAM and eggs for lunch on the weekend. I didn’t know what SPAM was. I just remember seeing a rectangular piece of meat on my plate. It was salty, kinda rubbery and for awhile I just ate it because it was on my plate. Then I found my voice one day and I told my dad that SPAM was weird (since he wouldn’t tell me what kind of meat it was) and that I didn’t want to eat it anymore. He...
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When I was little my mom would make sunomono (Japanese vinegared salad) with kyuri (Japanese cucumber) and wakame (seaweed). Sometimes she would also add dried shirasu (whitefish; baby “katakuchi” sardine) or other small dried fish “for calcium” as she said. Often times at dinner I would see a bowl of sunomono as one of the many Japanese side dishes served with our fish, curry, or other Japanese dish we were...
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