okinawan sweet potato : 20 Recipes
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Sausage Fried Rice (258)
This morning I pulled out my ridiculously large Costco package of that really great pineapple sausage I’ve mentioned before. I ate one for breakfast and then chopped up a leftover half for some fried rice. I had no veggies besides the bell[...] |
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Grandma Moo Fried Rice (253)
When I was growing up I had two grandmas: Grandma and Grandma Kodani. When I gave birth, suddenly my mom was Grandma J and my mother in law was Grandma J too and then there was Mr. Pikko’s Grandma Nachan too and we could no longer call my[...] |
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M.I.P. Mochi
Last night I found myself sitting at my computer with tears rolling down my face because I’d just gotten a reply from my dad about what happened to my old cat that I had when I lived at home. In his reply, he told me that he had hoped I[...] |
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Breakfast Bento
This morning I suffered yet another blow to my bento ego from none other than my resident 6-year old anti-bento daughter. Last night, I’d asked her what she wanted for lunch today. Baby Girl: What did I have for lunch on Friday?[...] |
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Beef Pasta (261)
I’m still honking out hanabata like crazy, but occassionally I clear up enough to be able to breathe right and boy does that feel SWEET! Yesterday I found nearly a whole box of vienna sausage in the cabinet that expired last month, so I think[...] |
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Love on an Omelet
Having had a really low motivation weekend, I didn’t make any plans at all for today’s bento. Though now that I think about it, I did two weekened blog posts, so I can’t really have been all that lazy. I sure felt lazy. I[...] |
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Review: Hello Kitty Waffle Maker
I’ve come to the point where whenever I have J-List credit to spend, I try to avoid the bento stuff. It’s not that I don’t want more bento boxes, of course I do, but my storage cabinet has actually reached capacity and I have[...] |
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LOST S6 Bento #1 ? Not Penny?s Boat
In my excitement over thinking up the LOST spam musubis, I kind of forgot to think about what I’d be making today for the actual premiere. It dawned on me while I roasted on the beach on Saturday and I started thinking on what I could[...] |
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Packing a Nutritionally Dense Bento Box
This is my guest article written for and posted on JustBento. The classic bento box with its proportioned rice, protein and vegetable combination is a balance of taste, harmony of flavors, and prepared to keep spoilage to a minimum.[...] |
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A Bento to Scream For and Fundraiser Winners
I dunno what it is about this month, but I’ve been cranking out a lot of charaben ideas that I wish I’d had last year because then I could have put a lot of these into Yum-Yum Bento . Oh well… hopefully the book will do[...] |