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Easy Homemade Banana Muffins

Recently I’m enjoying cooking sweets !     I’ve never been into it before because personally I prefer to eat salty taste foods to sweets. Sweets are good sometimes, maybe it’s good to eat once or twice a week, but not always.  But my husband Ray eats Muffins every morning for breakfast.     He even puts creamy raw honey and whipped cream on top of it, which makes it even more sweet.  And looks like he is in a heaven.      He can eat sweets any time as a meal or snack. My image of Muffins is for afternoon tea time snack, and we were buying some muffins for snack, but since about several months ago, Ray changed his breakfast menu from cereal to muffins.  And we were always buying many kinds of muffins   such as blueberry muffins, banana muffins, etc.. in a super market. While I was looking at the recipes of many kind muffins, I found it not so difficult to make, like cheesecake. ...

Dry skin care - My new beauty discovery

Happy New Year , 2013 !   I wish 2013 will be filled with love, good health and happiness   for everyone in the world. The area I live in the USA   gets super dry especially winter season.  I had been trying many kinds of skin care for dry skin since I started living here. Actually, even when I was in Japan, I was always looking for something good for curing my dry skin problem. And a few days ago, I happened to find a Japanese discussion thread which talks about skin care cream. Guess what ? It’s Nivea .  Yes, original version of Nivea cream ! I suppose everyone knows that product. I was using Nivea cream when I was a little girl until I became 18.    Little girls are often curious what their mother is doing. In my case, it was my step-mother who was in her 20S at that time.  She was always doing her skin care with Shiseido-cosmetics with her make-up box with mirror after took a bath...

Today’s lunch – Wanton vegetable soup & Fried rice

I love cooking which is easy and simple.    And today, I made wanton vegetable soup & fried rice for lunch. Eating out is sometimes great   but usually I feel the most comfortable to eat meals I cook by myself.   Because I can control the taste based on my favorite taste. Wanton vegetable soup  Ingredients ·         * Dumplings   (6 – 7)   ·        *   Sprouts   ·         *   Cabbages    ·         * Daikon ( Japanese reddish )   ·         *   Green onion       Soup ·        * Chicken soup stock    - 1 to   1 ½    ·        *   Salt - a little   ·        *  ...