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Is the bottle you are trying to open extremely tight and impossible to open? I've just discovered the easiest way to open an extremely tight plastic bottle cap yesterday ! You only need a rubber band ! If the surface you are placing the bottle on is slippery, it's good to place wet towel under the plastic bottle.   Then, tie a rubber band two or three times around the cap of the plastic bottle. and twist the cap. It will open immediately. I was really impressed to know this way,  because nothing really worked and my hands got very hurt by twisting it hardly. When I sometimes put a plastic bottle of water in the refrigerator without opening the cap,  the cap got very tight and it was hard to open it. But since I found this way, I no longer have to worry about it.    If this way is new for you,  you may want to try it. For opening a tight glass bottle lid,  it usually works by hitting the edge of the lid with metal spoon.   I  re...

  Tortilla + Cheese + Sour cream + butter + mustard and heating it up about 30 seconds with microwave. ( 1000 watts)   My husband and I recently enjoy eating these combination for our snack, in the time between lunch and dinner. It's very yummy!  1.  Spread butter on the Tortilla.  2. Spread mustard on it.  3. add cheese on it. 4. Add Sour cream on it. 5. Fold it up like the image below, 6. Wrap it with plastic wrap. 7.   H eat it in the microwave for 30 seconds. ８．Done ！ In the beginning, I was eating it without sour cream because I was not so crazy for sour cream and I only ate it with baked potato, and when I eat Mexican food, Burrito. and the taste of it without sour cream was okay. but when I saw my husband started eating it with sour cream, and he said it's very yummy. So I tried it. and I found it's really different taste when adding sour cream in it,  and very delicious ! It really match with the tortilla.     I t...

I made custard cream donuts recently. These dough are very soft and fluffy.   and not so sweet. Very very delicious ! I was not so crazy for donuts in the past because store donuts I've eaten were usually too sweet for me. and I thought it's difficult to make donuts at home by myself without fermentation machine. But recently I discovered that we can cook donuts without fermentation machine in youtube cooking video. My husband loves donuts a lot especially soft & fluffy donuts. So I thought lets' try. If you are like me who love less sweet donuts,  you will love these donuts. How to make custard cream donuts ? I got the recipes in two youtube videos. One for the donuts,  and  another one for the custard cream. You can use donuts and custard cream in the first video,  but for custard cream,  we prefer the taste of it from the 2nd video. but both ways are fine.      In gredients [8 pieces of about 9cm] Dough Ingredient *...

  I feel these big size cherries are even more delicious. I wrote about this many times, but I really love these dark sweet cherries.      So yummy !  I feel abundance when I am eating it. I've never seen such big sized cherries until I came to USA. Everything looks big in the USA compared to Japan. Here is my recent breakfast / brunch menu. I have addiction to this menu since a year ago. * Banana + cereal + milk * Bread with honey and cinnamon powder * Fruits  ( depending on the season, it changes ) * Ice coffee ( hot coffee in the autumn to winter time ) * Tortilla chips   Coffee from Costa Rica The coffee we drink is made in Costa Rica. It's the only coffee I can drink, which I don't get allergy .  All other coffee, I get allergy. Costa Rica coffee has actually fixed several of my allergies ( especially for hay fever season ), I don't know why.   My husband's hay fever also stopped when he drank this coffee. It's very delicious. ...

  I was almost giving up to put on nail polish because whenever I was removing the nail polish, my nail was damaged and got white spots.  I thought it happened because of the acetone in the nail polish remover. So I also tried non-acetone one but I still got white spots when I was removing the nail polish after 1 week. But finally I found a nail polish remover that is really working without damaging my nail !   It's  " Blossom, Nail Polish Remover, Lavender, 2 fl oz (59 ml) ". It's organic ,  all natural , acetone-free, non-toxic . I put on my nail polish a week ago, and have just removed them with that nail polish remover now. Recently I 'm having skin problems with my fingers from dry skin and allergy. But this nail polish remover did not hurt my skin while removing the nail polish. and nail was fine after removing the nail polish ! No white spot !  and it's removing the nail polish very well and fast.  Smell is like nice lavender essentia...

Recently we are getting addiction to eat donuts since our LA trip.  I especially love old fashion donuts , however there are no donuts stores which have less sugar donuts near our place.  So I decided to make it by myself. Here is the recipe of old fashion donuts which are less sweet. Ingredients ( for 6 or 7 donuts ) *  All purpose flour  - 320g *  Baking powder -   2 tea spoon *  Butter - 50g  ( At normal temperature ) *  Sugar -  120g or 130g ( depending on your taste you like ) *  Salt - a little *  Egg -  2 Medium or large size   *  Milk -  2 tea spoon *  Vanilla essence -  1 tea spoon * Bread flour -  Appropriate amount How to make old fashion donuts ?    Old fashion donuts 1.  Mix " all purpose flour " and " baking powder " and keep it. 2.  Put butter into a bowl and whisk the butter into cream. 3.  Add salt in the bowl. 4.  Add sugar in 2.3 por...

  Universal studios Hollywood parking to  Omni Hotel  When we got to the general parking garage, it was already getting dark outside. We set up the GPS for Omni Hotel, and followed the navigation. So it was pretty easy to get to the place. We took the routine of  US-101S to I-110 S. After driving to marge onto CA-110, we took 6th St exit toward 4th street.  and then W 4th street to S Olive street. Omni Hotel was on the Olive street on the left side. When we arrived at the entrance of the Omni Hotel,  Valet parking attendant took care of our car to park in the Hotel's special parking place.  The parking fee was $52(USD) per night.  It's expensive. and there are other cheaper parking lot near the hotel. But we chose the hotel's parking for security since we've read about many problems at cheap parking lot. Everything is expensive in LA compared to Tucson, AZ. We chose Omni Hotel because it was the closest hotel in Consulate General of Japan's locat...