Our Adventures in Japan

Sorry it's been a little quiet here, we had an emergency over the weekend and everything has settled down now. I wanted to share with you these biscuits (cookies) by MUJI. They are delicious but really HARD! They'll definitely give your jaw a workout. They had two kinds...one with chocolate & sesame and the other with 4 different types of dried fruits. It's Friday here, hope you have a

Remember the lavender scented fruit salad' Well, since I had made the full recipe of the syrup, I had leftovers of the syrup after the fruit salad, so I put a tablespoon of the syrup and then added some carbonated water to it. Refreshing and delicious!

Goya was on sale the other day for 98 yen! I used half of it with a fourth of a red bell pepper and some jakko to make kinpira using this recipe (minus the nuts). It was a little bitter, but I liked it. I'm making this again. p.s. can you believe we still have cold weather'! oh and I received this red carnation from the lady at the yakitori kiosk for buying something....hope your mother's

Having Okinawan ties, I am always interesting in learning more about their food culture. On a recent television show, I learned about this dish...ninjin shirishiri (literally grated carrots). Shirishiri is the okinawan word for surisuri which means to grate. This dish is so easy to make, of course you can doctor it up with some salt or shoyu if it is too bland for you. some olive oil 1.5

I've had this recipe bookmarked for awhile now. The reason I put summer in quotes is because this salad uses summer fruits like stone fruits (peaches, nectarines, plums) and berries (well, depending where you are). Well, by the time, the stone fruits are here, we won't have any berries in the markets, that is just how our fruits are sold here. On top of that, the white peaches in Japan are

Saw this on a walk and thought this was cute... Are you parked correctly'! It's Friday here, hope you have a great weekend.

It's been awhile since I've did a post on things I'm liking (and disliking)... Starting with disliking...this milk tea, while I liked that they used earl grey, it was way too sweet. And I love Maranatha's products, but they use palm oil in these...that aside, these are still wonderful tasting. I put a schmear on puffed rice cake for a quick snack. Which brings me to the puffed rice cakes.

In Japan, you'll find something on menus called "dry curry". What you'll get when you order this is curry flavored fried rice. The other day I went to the market looking for my favorite curry roux, but they didn't have it (boo!). Still, I had envisioned making curry for dinner, so I decided to try something new. A bottle of "dry curry paste". I've known dry curry to be in powder form, but

I tried a new recipe yesterday for "creamy" herbed tofu dressing. The thing that makes this dressing "creamy" is the tofu. The original recipe uses the word "fresh" in its title, but I didn't have the fresh herbs listed, so I used dried. Here is the original recipe: from "Moosewood Restaurant Daily Special" makes 3/4 cup-1 cup "Creamy" Fresh Herbed Tofu Dressing 6 to 7 ounces firm tofu (1/2

Yesterday, it was forecast to rain in the afternoon. Still I wanted to check out the koinobori in Takatsuki. See they had 1000 strung across the Akutagawa (Akuta river), now when would you ever see something that fabulous'! So, we got out and about early and it was drizzly and cold but we found the place and it was still impressive. I really liked the handmade koi...can you see the little