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    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 them. 5. Add blueberries in it and mix all of them. 6. Pour it into the muffin maker pan. 7. Cut cre

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 table spoons for raw honey or 3 table spoons for sugar  * Milk -   300 cc * Vir

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

Every year I 'm feeling the same, time flies faster and faster, I don't know why? I remember I felt time past so slow when I was a teenager.  and still can not figure out why feeling like time is getting faster and faster. I suppose it will get faster and faster. So time is money. Time is treasure.   Time is a gift. So my new year's resolution for 2019 is  enjoy every moment. Focus on only what I love, what I desire, and things which make me feel happy. Today,  I would like to talk about natural remedy for cold and flu. I haven't caught a cold and flu since a long time ago but last month in January , after I washed my hair  and wiped it well with bath towel,  I was naturally drying it without using hair dryer. Because I noticed that my hair got more shining when I dry my hair this way. and then I went to bed in that night. In the next morning, I woke up with terrible headaches. and I felt joint pain everywhere in my body,so soon I thought I caught a cold or flu.

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 skins with a knife and put them in a bowl. 5. Add the cream cheese spread , sugar, eggs in the bowl and

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

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.

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

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

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 &