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Today, I would like to share my new discovery , yummy potato salad recipe  ! My husband and I felt it's the most delicious potato salad we have ever eaten. Very yummy !  Originally I was not so crazy for potato salad in the past,  but recently when I was looking for a new menu and a recipe I've never cooked,  I found this recipe for potato salad.   The picture looks like normal potato salad,  but when I saw the ingredients and the recipe for it, it's different from the recipes I knew, so I felt like let's try. The recipe of the potato salad Ingredients  *  Potatoes  -   3 or 4  (medium size )  *  Olive oil  -  one tea spoon *  Slice Ham or Bacon  -  about 80 ~ 100g *  Asparagus - about 80 ~100g *  Eggs - 2 *  Mayonnaise - 6~ 8 table spoons (  Two table spoons for One potato )   *  Salt -  to your liking (based on your favorite taste ) *  Black pepper or Seasoning herbs -  to your liking (based on your favorite taste ) How to make i

Today, I would like to share an easy , yummy recipe for sausage & potato and asparagus stir fry ! I recently found this menu online, and found that it's very easy and delicious.  My husband also really loves it. It's also good for beer snack as well. Here is the recipe below. Ingredients  (2 people ) *  Sausage  - 2 ~ 3 *  Potatoes - 3 ~ 4 * Asparagus ( or green beans )  -  to your liking * Butter    -   15g * Olive oil  -   1 Table spoon * Salt  -  to your liking (based on your favorite taste ) * Black pepper ( or 21 Seasoning Salute ) -  to your liking                                             (based on your favorite taste ) * Chicken Flavor Bouillon - 1 cube How to cook it ? 1.  Cut sausages and potatoes however you want.  2.  Put the potatoes into a hot water in a pan and boil until the potatoes get slightly soft.   or you can also use microwave for it. 3. Take the potatoes out of the pan. 4. Boil the asparagus in hot water about 1 to 2 minutes, and take th

  When I was a little girl, cherry was my favorite fruit. I dreamed to eat cherries until I get full. In Japan, cherries were very expensive ( maybe now' too ?) . Every summer season, my mother bought a pack of cherries, but it was small pack,  so when it was shared with my family ( 4 family  members ) , I could get no more than 8.   Now, my childhood dream came true! This large pack of cherries was on a special sale in the supermarket. It's a season for cherries and Peaches !!!   Hmmm I'm in a heaven.  

I usually get up around 11 am, so my first meal in a day is always brunch.  and lately I'm really into eating Fruits. I rarely had not eaten much fruits since when I was young even though I love fruits,  because I preferred to eat normal meal, and after the meal I was already feeling full and no space for fruits or deserts for my stomach. In tea time ( coffee break time ), I often ate snacks , rather than fruits. So my mother often had told me to eat more fruits.   Lately, I happened to find an article about a Fruitarian who has been eating only fruits for 7 years and 8 months, and has been very healthy so far. I do not think I will be a Fruitarian but I decided to eat fruits since then, and I noticed that eating a lot of Fruits makes my body healthier. I often got the feeling of sleepy when I was eating rice, noodles, potatoes for breakfast or brunch. But I noticed that eating fruits doesn't make me sleepy feeling and get more energy. So since I found it out, I've

Coffee jelly was one of my favorite desserts when I was in Japan , so I often ordered it whenever I went to a cafe. Many cafes or family restaurants put whip cream on top, but the cafe I was working for when I was a teenager was putting vanilla ice cream on top with coffee cream. I really loved this way. A nd recently , suddenly I was craving for that coffee Jelly. I haven't eaten coffee jelly since I came to the USA,  because there are no such a menu in cafe or restaurants here. But I didn't know it's so easy to make it by myself. My husband has never eaten coffee jelly, only fruit jelly. Maybe in western countries, there is no coffee jelly ? Anyway, we both really enjoyed eating it so wanted to share it. Here is the recipe of the coffee Jelly.       For two people Ingredients *Gelatin - 0.25oz ( about 7g ) *Water -  Three table spoons *Coffee -  250cc *Sugar or honey -  Two table spoons ( but depending on your taste )   How to mak

Today, I made a banana smoothie ! We had a mixer but I haven't been using it since we bought it a long time ago.  I didn't even open it until today. Somehow, suddenly I started getting interested in smoothie recently. It was my husband's day off today, so he also drank it. Here is the ingredients of the banana smoothie below, Ingredients * Banana -  2 * Plain Yogurt - 4 table spoons * Honey - 2 or 3 table spoons * Milk -  300 cc * Virgin coconut oil  - 1 table spoon * Ice cube -  4 or 5 Just put all the ingredients into the mixer. Also if you prefer sweeter taste, good to put one table spoon of vanilla ice cream over the smoothie. It's very yummy !  My husband also really loves it. For a while , I will drink the smoothie for my brunch , and will make many kind of smoothies.

Japanese breakfast menu One of the happiest moments I feel is eating my favorite foods at home. This is my today's brunch.  The menu is * A bowl of plane white rice with vegetable seasonings over it. * Two sunny-side-ups and a slice of chicken ham , * Green asparagus , * Seaweed called Nori ,  ( Thank you to my aunt Miyoko & Uncle Sakae ) * Miso soup with Daikon ( Japanese radish), Satoimo ( Japanese potato ), green onion, The sauce I use for Nori and the main dish is soy sauce . It's one of the Japanese breakfast menus but I rarely eat breakfast, so I often eat this menu or similar menu for my brunch. This kind of Japanese menu never bores me , and it shows I'm really Japanese.  But I sometimes eat garlic toast with cheese and Tuna, and egg and salad instead of the menu. Also in my husband's days off, we sometimes eat French toast or pancake for brunch. Depending on our mood, sometimes we have different feeling of what to eat, so sometimes I make diffe

So happy !!! My Japanese relatives, aunt Takako and uncle Eimei sent us a gift again , and received it yesterday ! They are my mother's younger brother and his wife and my closest relatives. They have been really nice to me since I was a little girl. I can not say enough to thank them for so many things they did to me and my family in my life. These are Organic Mochi ( rice cakes ) , it's kind of like a sticky rice. A rice cake is made by pounding steamed rice into a cake.  I was telling my husband that I really want to eat Mochi around new year holidays because I haven't eaten Mochi since I moved to the USA,  but Asian super market  here are not selling Mochi. So I was thinking about purchasing it in amazon store.     Also the seaweed called "Nori " , and ground sesame which I eat almost everyday. So, I'm so so happy and grateful to receive their gift ! They don't know about my wish to eat Mochi, so I felt like it's

2015 will be over soon and and 2016 is just around the corner. Every time when the end of year is coming, I feel time flies so fast. This year, world became crazy and there were many shocking news and things happened in the world. But I decided to feel happiness every moment as much as possible, so that I will never regret my life.   It's Christmas today,  So,  I made a cake with decoration - a fruits spicy cake again ! I was not satisfied with the decoration last time, so I wanted to challenge it again. As a result,  I feel it looks better than last time, and with my husband, really enjoying the taste of it ! While I was making it, I found it's getting fun and it's like creating an art. I will practice more in the future because Practice makes improvement.  Wishing everyone to have a wonderful Merry Christmas !

I made French cinnamon toast and also hot apples for brunch last weekend. I'm not usually crazy to eat sweets for breakfast or brunch but this French toast is special. So yummy !!! I feel like I want to eat it every weekend. I have made French toast only once when I was still single. I remember it was very delicious, but since then, I don't know why but I forgot about it. This may be one of my favorite sweets. My husband also loves it so much.    How to make French cinnamon toast and hot apples ? It's super easy ! French Cinnamon toast Ingredients * 4 sliced breads ( I used French bread baguette ) * Egg   - 1 * Organic brown sugar  - 30g * Milk  - 80 cc * Cinnamon * Sugar      * Butter How to make it ? 1. Mix egg, brown sugar and milk in a bowl and shake it. 2. Slice a piece of bread with about 0.5 inch thick. 3. Dip the sliced bread all over into the mixture of egg and brown sugar and milk. 4. Push the bread with fork

In the valentines day we discovered that a combination of Bordeaux wine & Godiva Chocolate pecan caramel Sundae Dessert truffles make our feeling extremely happy! It's sooooo delicious ! and the wonderful feeling stays long time. Bordeaux white wine ( French ) has been my top favorite wine so far. It's very unique and rich and very well balanced taste, so I've been enjoying drinking it often. My husband also loves this wine but his favorite wine right now is an Italian wine called Bianco. I didn't have habit to drink wine until last year, and I didn't know but now I really understand why French people and Italian people have a habit to drink wine with meals every day. In their descriptions of each wine , it always shows which wine fits with what kind of meal. They know which wine matches with what food.  When we eat a meal with a wine which matches with it, the taste expands, and we can get even more happy delicious feeling. I know

Recently, I was looking for a recipe for summer time pasta which I have never eaten, and found the recipe of "Tuna & Grated Daikon radish pasta ".  It sounded delicious, so I made it for today's lunch. Love, love love !  It's perfect for summer time's meal. I love grated daikon radish so much. Here is the recipe of the Tuna & Grated Daikon radish Pasta. Ingredients  ( for one person ) * Pasta * Tuna ( a can of Tuna, good to choose good quality Tuna  ) - About 1/4 - 1/5 of Tuna in the can. * Green onion - 1 piece of green onion * Daikon Radish  - about 2 inch long. * Olive oil - 1 table spoon * Lemon juice - about 2 to 3 table spoons * Soy sauce - about 2 to 3 table spoons Sauce * Put soy sauce ( 2 to 3 table spoons ) and lemon juice ( 2 to 3 table spoons ) in the a small bowl and mix it. How to make it ? 1. After boiled the pasta, put it in a net and pour some olive oil over the pasta and cool it down. 2

I made a cheesecake yesterday.  It looks much better than when I first time made it , since I've already made this cheesecake many times and the taste is always amazing. It's my husband's favorite sweet, so I cook it about once a month. It's very yummy, and well balanced taste so I recommend to everyone who loves cheesecake . I guarantee it will make you feel happy. You can see the recipe of it at the link below, http://miho-entwistle.blogspot.com/2012/08/my-new-cooking-menu-yummy-homemade.html It's burning hot here but beautiful mountain view always makes me feel great. Mountain has the power of relief and we can refresh our feeling. so I love walking around here. I love walking in the nature rather than walking on the machine at the gym. Excited to wear my new walking shoes ! Loved this scenery while I was walking around my walking course. Yes, happiness comes from within and it's always in my hea

One of the menus I often cook for dinner or sometimes for lunch is Chicken & mushrooms Macaroni Gratin. Depending on my mood, sometimes I use rice instead of macaroni for only mine. So mine is rice gratin.  My husband loves macaroni and pasta more than rice so our menu is not always the same. And today I want to share the recipe for my macaroni gratin.   Chicken & mushrooms Macaroni Gratin  ( for 2 people ) Ingredients * Macaroni - about 200g * Chicken breast - about 300g * Mushroom  - 200g * Mix vegetable  ( or corn) - 100g * Green beans  ( or green asparagus ) - 100g * Butter – 1 table spoon * White wine – 2 table spoons * Powder Cheese  - a little  ( White creamy sauce ) * Butter – 3 table spoons * Flour – 4 table spoons * Milk – 2 cups * Chicken soup stock – 1 stock * Salt &  Pepper -   a little       How to make it ? 1. Cut chicken and mushroom however you want. And sprinkle some salt &