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A home cooking blog dedicated to exploring the relationship between food and culture. My recipes are a fusion of different tastes, influenced by the variety of places I've lived and the people I have met. LFM also features the Washoku Warriors, a group cooking through Elizabeth Andoh's Japanese cookbook, Washoku.
Squirrel just started preschool again, and although I love having the time while she’s at school to spend with Bug, preschool also means I have to pack Squirrel a lunch. A few months ago I started thinking about the lunch co (read full article)
When Josie (Daydreamer Desserts) came over to help me try out knives last week, she brought a treasure with her. We had talked about making some kind of salsa with all of the ingredients that we would be chopping up, so that they w (read full article)
Have you entered to win a gorgeous super sharp santoku knife yet? If not, there’s still time! Enter the contest! ———————————————R (read full article)
I have a very serious disease called jar-itis. This disease causes me to fill my refrigerator with jars. I inherited this disease from my father. Our poor families are always complaining that there isn’t enough room in the refrigerator b (read full article)
So you already know that we’re big fans of mushrooms here in the Fuji household. But what you might not know is that I’m one of the contributors for The Mushroom Channel, the website for the Mushroom Council, for the 2010 year! In fac (read full article)
How many of you had your mom tell you that eating your carrots would help keep your eyes healthy? Carrots are one of those foods that you want your children to love—full of all kinds of good things like beta-carotene and fiber. Luckily I (read full article)
I love tsukemono. For those of you not familiar with this category of Japanese cuisine, tsukemono can be loosely translated as “pickles.” But calling tsukemono pickles is really kind of a misnomer. Tsukemono are items that have bee (read full article)
On Monday I got really brave and went to Costco with both of the girls. They were so good that I tested my luck and took them to the grocery store to finish up the grocery shopping. I shouldn’t have been so brave, because I was rewarded w (read full article)
A couple of weeks ago I extended a challenge to make your own miso soup from scratch and then tell me about it! I maintain that miso soup is surprisingly easy to make. Let’s see what the Miso Soup Challenge participants had to say: The fir (read full article)
A lone sweet potato sat on my counter looking forlorn and unloved. It made me feel guilty every time I looked at it. I needed to use it . . . I wanted to use it, but was feeling wholly uninspired. Then a happenstance trip to the grocery (read full article)
A lone sweet potato sat on my counter looking forlorn and unloved. It made me feel guilty every time I looked at it. I needed to use it . . . I wanted to use it, but was feeling wholly uninspired. Then a happenstance trip to the grocery store c (read full article)
Lately I've been enticed by the beautiful beets at our farmer's market. I got an especially beautiful bunch of beets during my last trip to buy produce at the market. The beets sat in my kitchen for several days calling (read full article)
Forever ago, my friend Dana (author of Old Red Barn Co.) emailed me and asked if I'd ever had chocolate zucchini bread before. I totally don't remember the context of the question anymore (do you Dana?), but I responded that no, I hadn't, that (read full article)
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