Miho's favorites

    I made Gluten free blueberry & cream cheese muffins today ! It's very healthy and yummy, not too sweet, so my husband and I love it. If you are looking for yummy gluten free blueberry muffins, here is the recipe for it. Recipe of Homemade Gluten free blueberry & cream cheese muffins - ( Six muffins )   Ingredients    *  Olive oil -  60g *  Coconut oil -  60g *  Organic raw cane sugar  - 80g *  Raw honey - 15g ( 1 table spoon ) *  Baking powder - 2 tea spoons *  Eggs - 2  *  Gluten free flour ( such as rice flour ) - 200g *  Blueberry - 170g *  Cream cheese - 30 or 40g   How to make it ? This is very easy,  just mix all the ingredients in a bowl. 1. Start from olive oil, coconut oil , organic sugar, honey, then mix these four first. 2. Then add eggs and mix with it. 3. Then add gluten free flour and baking powder .  Mix all of them well. 4. Then add milk and mix all of ...

Today, I would like to share the recipe of my favorite Banana shake ( smoothie ). During the hot summer time, it's really yummy and is cooling down our body , so makes our feeling fantastic to drink it. I usually drink it after exercise, and feel like I'm in a heaven. I had shared a recipe of banana smoothies a long time ago. ( about 4 years ago )    https://miho-entwistle.blogspot.com/2016/04/yummy-banana-smoothie.html The ingredients and recipe are the same except for using frozen banana slices. I prefer banana shake during the summer time. Ingredients     * Banana -    2  (  Slice  the banana about 1 inch long each and put them in a plastic bag and keep it in the Freezer and make  Frozen sliced banana )  * Organic Plain Yogurt - 4 table spoons ( about 60g ) * Organic Sugar or  Raw Honey - 2 or 3 table spoons  ( based on your liking )     I put 2 ...

Eating seasonal foods are not only good for health but also it's increasing our vibrational energy and it brings good luck.  I love this season so much because my favorite fruit Cherry is the food in season right now,  and I can eat cherries every day !  I don't know why but Cherry has been my favorite fruit since I was a little girl.   In my childhood, my image of Cherry was always Luxury fruit because it was  expensive and I was not able to eat much. So I was often dreaming to eat Cherries until I get full. In my parents generation, they said Banana was very expensive because it was not easy to get in Japan and was known as luxury fruit until the year I was born.  Now we can buy bananas about less than 70 cents/lb so I eat it every day. I feel wealthy and abundance when I think about it while eating the banana.  In Japanese Cherries, my favorites are called Sato Nishiki,  Napoleon ( it's the types of Cherries w...

I recently love eating this sweet food that Japanese call " Warabi mochi " which is made of 0 calories food psyllium in my coffee break time.   It's sweet food but I use Lakanto Monk Fruit Sweetener instead of sugar when I make it. Lakanto Monk Fruit sweetener is 0 calorie s and 0 glycemic and very similar taste as normal sugar. It is said it's derived from monk fruit, which looks like a small green gourd native to regions of China and Thailand.  It's not artificial so it is not bad for health so I feel comfortable eating it. Warabi mochi is a food which is normally made of Kinako ( soybean flour) & sugar & warabi powder and it's one of my favorite foods. However it's high calorie foods so if I eat a lot, it's easy to gain weight.   Because Warabi mochi flour is Starch and has sugar in it and is high calorie.  So I was not eating it. and then recently I found the recipe of diet Warabi Mochi which is made of Psyllium...

Today's brunch -  Fruitarian   I had a Fruitarian brunch today. One banana, half apple, some grapes and strawberries, two mandarin oranges, and hot water. I love to eat many fruits for breakfast or brunch. I've read about a Japanese Fruitarian called Mizuki Nakano who has been eating 99.9% only Fruits since 2009.  According to him,  he started doing it as an experiment because there is no scientific data of what will happen when we eat too many fruits even though it's often warned to avoid eating too many fruits because it may cause to get fat, may get diabetes, may make your body cold and get poor circulation. So he has been researching what kind of change will appear when eating so many fruits through his body. He also mentioned that it's his experiment so he does not suggest to do the same thing as him. Here are some articles about him below, https://truththeory.com/2018/04/23/former-professor-in-japan-claims-eating-fruit-for-8-years-has-made-him-sup...

We went to  El Güero Canelo to get Sonoran Hot dogs last weekend.   I've been living here over 15 years, but I didn't know about  Sonoran Hot dogs  is one of the local specialty of Southern Arizona. So last weekend, as soon as I found out about Sonoran Hot dogs, I checked the stores/restaurants where we can get it. My husband was excited to see it because it looks very yummy in the pictures in the website.    It was Sunday afternoon so nearest restaurants which have the Sonoran Hot dogs were closed.  So we went to " El Güero Canelo" .  http://www.elguerocanelo.com/ It's a self service style casual restaurant, kind of like a Mexican fast food. It's said that the Sonoran Hot Dog, "It originated in Hermosillo, the capital of the Mexican state of Sonora, in the late 1980s.   It consists of a hot dog that is wrapped in bacon and grilled, served on a bolillo-style hot dog bun , and topped with p...

It's already spring !!! OMG, It's been forever since my last post. I don't know why but recently I didn't get the feeling to write something in my blog.   and realized that the more I don't write something , the more I don't get an idea and don't get the feeling of writing. But it's already the end of March and it's already past almost three months since new year ( 2018 ), so I thought  I should write something to bring back my passion for writing. Kabocha Pumpkin power My husband and I have been doing fine and this winter season, we both did not get flu or cold. And I noticed the reason we   did not catch a flu or cold this season is since we   started eating Kabocha Pumpkin ( Squash? ) daily, we are really healthy . Also our nails got stronger and hard. I suppose it's good for our bones as well. I'm really impressed with the power of Kabocha, so we will keep eating it everyday for our health.  Great thing is it's very delicious, ...

I'm really into Pumpkin/Kabocha for foods recently, so we eat it every day. and yesterday, I made a Pumpkin/Kabocha cheesecake again! It was soooo delicious ! so I wanted to share the recipe of the Pumpkin/ Kabocha cheesecake. Recipe of Pumpkin ( Kabocha ) Cheesecake Ingredients *  Kabocha/Pumpkin  -    1/2 *  Organic Sugar - 100g to 120g  ( based on your taste )  I put about 110g. *  Cream cheese spread :  250g *  Flour : 40g *  Milk : 200cc   (   or Milk 150cc, Half & Half 50cc ) *  Eggs  -  3 *  Olive oil or butter - about 10g How to make it ? 1. Put butter or olive oil inside of a baking pan all over, then put a baking sheet on the baking pan. 2. Heat up the cream cheese spread in the microwave until it gets soft. 3. Cut the Pumpkin/Kabocha about 3cm each and wash it with water and heat it up in the microwave until it gets soft.  4. Remove all the Kabocha skin...

Today, I would like to write about our new discovery , amazing benefits of Pumpkin / Kabochas ! Originally, my husband and I both were not so crazy for Pumpkins except for pumpkin pie.  But since I happened to find the recipe of pumpkin cheesecake in online recipe site,  I was curious to make it because it looks very delicious. So, last week I tried to make it.  During Halloween season, Pumpkins were everywhere but after finished the holiday,  it's all gone and it was hard to find it .  But finally we could get it in the farmer's market place  called " Sprout ". This place has both western Pumpkins  ( orange color ) and Japanese pumpkins ( dark green or almost like black color ) which is called Kabocha in Japan.    I made  a  pumpkin cheesecake  in the evening and needed to cool it down in the refrigerator all night so my husband ate it in the next morning after breakfast. Soon,  he said he got ...