I hope everyone’s weekend is getting off to a great start. I can’t believe it’s already Friday night… And here I am updating my blog. Such is the life of a Bebe Mama with a little one tucked away in her crib. It seems Bebe Dada left the room and the movie he was watching ended. Now I’m sitting in the dark with my laptop and I hear something very scary on TV and I’m afraid to turn around and see what’s...
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Dreary, cold, June Gloom isn’t so bad when I know we’re having shabu-shabu for dinner. I’m sure there are many of you reading this that are thinking, “What? Shabu-shabu in the summer?” Trust me, it worked really well for us in Southern California last week while my mom was visiting. I woke up one morning to very gray skies and cool weather. I decided right then that we would have shabu-shabu for dinner that...
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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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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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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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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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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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At our house, chicken corn curry night always starts with rotisserie chicken from Costco. If we eat rotisserie chicken for dinner one night (we had Game 3 Salsa with chicken tacos over the weekend), everyone knows that chicken corn curry night is in the near future. As I mentioned before, I love Costco rotisserie chicken because it’s tasty, cost-effective, and most importantly – it’s convenient! It also freezes well,...
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