Spring Sushi cake
This is another sushi cake I made recently. I mix rice with sushi taro again and use round cake pan. Place plastic wrap inside of cake pan and spread rice. I added cucumber in between. You can refer Sushi cake recipe here. Once I make round sushi cake, I added Kinshi Tamago (Shredded Egg Crepe...
Miso-Flavored Meat Sauce with vegetables over rice
I got this meat sauce idea from Zha Jiang Mian that my father-in-law cooks for my son. Zha Jiang Mian is noodles topped with Minced pork with fermented soybean paste. I used misoMade by fermenting rice, barley and/or soybeans, with salt etc...The most typical miso made with soy. instead of using black bean paste for...
Chinese steamed pearl balls (steamed pork meatballs and glutinous rice )
I bought very fresh and delicious looking ground pork in butcher shop and I cooked Chinese steamed pearl balls (steamed pork meatballs and glutinous riceA sweet flour, short-grained, with a high starch content. sometimes called "glutinous" rice, doesn't contain gluten. Mochi is commonly used to make rice cakes, for which it is pounded in large...
Christmas party food idea for kids
We set up play date at our place in last week. Since our guest will be away in Christmas season, I prepare kid’s friendly light meal with Christmas decoration. Here is the menu 1)Santa Rice ball I cooked takikomi gohan (Japanese rice dish seasoned with dashi and soy sauce("shoyu" in Japanese) is a fermented sauce...
Apple Santa? Apple Christmas tree?
This is another Christmas inspired healthy snack idea for toddlers. My son likes fruit and I brought this Santa & Christmas Tree apple for snack time in last week’s play date.
Healthy Halloween snack-Sweet Kabocha pie
Halloween party was postponed due to hurricane sandy week later and my son finally enjoyed his Halloween at his daycare with his Thomas costume. I brought sweet kabochaJapanese variety of winter squash pie for his snack. This is healthy and toddler friendly snack for Halloween! Here is the recipe.
Halloween food decoration ideas for kids
I cooked some Halloween themed food in last weekend for my son and family. 1. Halloween omelet rice with tomato stew 2. Halloween pizza toast ...
super easy Hello Kitty sandwich recipe
I make this Hello Kitty sandwich a while back for my breakfast. Hello Kitty is my favorite character when I was kid and I always wanted to make this. I do not have any Hello Kitty shaped cookie cutter or anything but this recipe...
Owl sandwich
Last weekend My son was looking for something and kept telling me “Halloween”, but I was not sure what he was looking for. Finally I found the book he was looking for. This breakfast sandwich decoration idea came from the book...
Healthy vegetable and turkey miso ramen
My husband loves ramen (Japanese noodle dish) with tonkotsu (pork bone broth). It taste good but it is so high in carbohydrates, sodium, high level of saturated fat and trans fat. Also it contains MSG, Mono sodium Glutamate. So I...
