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Woohoo! Wednesday.

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I’m high on endorphins, folks. Get excited, it’s gonna be a great day! Today’s (morning) workout: WSU week 2 I love circuit training. (An earlier pick to show you  my awesome kicks. Oh, and the nice[...]

Sweet Potato Fries

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Love these things – which can’t be made with the Japanese sweet potato – satsumaimo. Baked these in the oven I now have access to! To go with these we had a simple salad, pickled cucumbers and onions and some rotisserie[...]

Be A Food Processor

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  If you have the proper canning equipment and the time, put foods by. You?ll need a pressure cooker to can meats, broths, and low-acid vegetables, but a very large soup pot can be used for making tomato sauces and salsas, jams and jellies,[...]

Exploding Vegetation

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For those of you who plant a vegetable garden every summer, the end of August can be the worst time of year for you. If you're like my family, you have more output than you know what to do with, your neighbors are starting to bring your[...]

Scrambled Eggs Bento

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Our schedules, Saba Man’s and mine,  have been pretty wacky these past weeks and keeping up with packing our lunches at odd times throughout the day and night was a challenge!  And truth be told, Saba Man ended up *whispering*[...]

Subway for Breakfast

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I posted about my Subway breakfast back in July To recap, this is an egg white with a sprinkle of cheese , some tomatoes & cucumber & today I jazzed it up  with some  spinach  [...]

Chicken and Rice Bento

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What can I say? Chicken and Rice is a bento staple. So here we go,  short and sweet: Teriyaki chicken, shirataki noodles, satsumaimo (I need to do a glossary, yes?), cukes, tomatoes ?not from my garden   and rice with furikake.[...]

Basil Tuna & Salad

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I don’t usually buy pre-marinaded food – but this tuna was a bargain and looked pretty good. It was ok – just a hint of basil flavour. Served with steamed asparagus tossed in butter and salad.

Salmon Mini Pita Bento

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I ‘m continuing with my practice “back-to-school” bento lunches but I have a question for the moms and dads out there… Would your child eat this?  Teriyaki salmon mini-pita sammies with lettuce and a side[...]

How to Pack a Bento #2

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Continuing our video/slideshow of “how to pack a bento” with this quickly made bento lunch using leftover pancit (Filipino fried noodles) from a party!  I also reached into my bento-stash of hardboiled eggs  to provide extra[...]