As a kid, my favorite dish was my mom’s spaghetti with meat sauce. It was, as the kids say today, “the bomb!” The funny thing was that, being Japanese, my mom would always ask us if we would like rice too. My dad, brother and I would always say, “no”. Yet, she always cooked a fresh batch of rice for dinner every time she made spaghetti, just in case one of us said, “yes.” The spaghetti I make...
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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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I love St. Patrick’s Day because of corned beef! This year, we celebrated on Friday March 19, 2010 and invited my brother and his family, my BFF, and Aya-chan over for dinner. I cooked three 3-pound corned beef slabs, purchased on sale at Albertsons for only 0.97 cents per pound! Woo-hoo! Keeping with my mom’s Japanese tradition, I made rice too. SHOPPERS TIP: I’ve found that corned beef goes on sale at the local...
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