Toddler Sampler Platter
At nearly two years old, I’m rather lucky that The Little Empress isn’t actually picky about what she eats. She loves all types of fruits, veggies, cheese and the like. She’s never met a noodle she didn’t like. Like her Daddy, she loves pho (Vietnamese beef noodle soup) so much that she’ll [...]
The Hubster ™ would say that I’m a bit of a food snob. I pride myself on making most of our meals from scratch. Most of the time, I find meal kits or pre-processed food to be over priced, overly salty or sugary and/or not to my taste.
As far as baked goods go, I usually [...]
Donburi or Japanese rice bowls are one of my favorite quick comfort foods. It is a big bowl of rice topped with meat cooked in a salty-sweet savory broth. There are also donburi that include raw fish such as tekkadon (fresh tuna) and my personal favorite, negi-tori don (fresh fatty tuna with scallions). (Though I [...]
A new Smart & Final Extra opened up this week and one of their grand opening sale specials was whole chicken for 69 cents a pound. What cheapass budget minded mama could say no to that? So I picked up two and roasted them off for dinner on Thursday night.
I had planned on making some [...]
When we were looking for houses last spring, one of the “must haves” on our list was a backyard big enough for Miyuki and a decent food garden. We moved in mid-summer so planting wasn’t an option but now that spring is around the corner, I’ve been giving some thought on how to approach this.
For [...]