Last week we met bebe dada for lunch and I ordered a bento box with miso glazed salmon. It was the second time I ordered this in three weeks, and I was hoping this time, that my first bite of salmon would be packed full of flavor… but it wasn’t. I’m not sure why I ordered this again, knowing very well that I would be disappointed once more. I believe my tummy is to blame. :) The tummy has a mind of its own and it...
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Arrrrrrrggggghhhhhhhh! After a disappointing Lakers vs Suns Game 3 of the Western Championship Finals, I decided to go back to making non-Japanese food on game night. (I’m superstitious when it comes to the Lakers.) After a Game 1 win with lasagna, and a Game 2 win with enchiladas, but a Game 3 loss with mom’s gyoza, I thought honey mustard chicken would bring magic to Game 4. (Somehow, that didn’t sound very...
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To say I hate potatoes would be too harsh, so let us say that the potato and I tolerate one another, like frenemies. For simple Japanese dishes that require the use of my enemy, the potato, I will cook with it, and season it lovingly, but when it comes time to eat, I will only take a few small bites of the large starchy root. In other dishes such as clam chowder, curry, or stew, I secretly hope that I over-cook my enemy so that it shrinks to...
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How often have I started a blog post with, “I love ____ ! It’s absolutely my favorite childhood food that my mom used to make for us.” If you’ve been following my blog, I think you would agree that I have a lot of favorite childhoods foods, more than you could count on one hand, and if I really think about this, it’s very hard for me to pick just one food that is my absolute favorite because my mom lovingly made...
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You might be wondering what this has to do with muffins, but I’ve been wearing my last pair of disposable contact lenses for TWO months. That’s pretty disgusting considering I should have disposed of them over a month ago (no wonder my vision was impaired), but due to a host of scheduling issues, weekend family commitments and a shortage of childcare I never made it to the optometrist’s office. As it happens, bebe...
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Today, I was chatting with a girlfriend online and she told me that my recent food posts haven’t “wowed” her. This made me giggle. What can I say, our family eats regular, home cooked fixin’s, and my blog is our “family’s ordinary cookbook”. :) It’s actually quite funny that my girlfriend told me that she wasn’t “wowed” just after I posted Zesty Italian Sausage Hash, because...
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The past week bebe dada’s been full of dinner requests. I can tell he needs a break from all the Japanese food I’ve been cooking and he needs to be rewarded for the vegetarian dinner he lived through (post forthcoming), as well as the vegetarian dinner leftovers he ate. I got it, hun! You’re craving hearty family favorites (with meat). The other night he wanted Italian sausage hash, and when I mentioned lasagna because we...
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Some nights for dinner, I must indulge bebe dada and cook whatever he chooses to bring home from Costco. Yesterday, he found Zesty Italian Sausage (7 sausages in 1 pack, sold in a 2 pack carton for $8), a huge carton of button mushrooms for $4 and a bag of bell peppers (2 each of yellow, orange and red) for $6… Bebe dada was happy to find some good value items. You’re probably wondering what we were going to do with 14 giant...
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