Chicken/Poultry

Tori Zosui—Japanese Rice & Chicken Porridge

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I love recipes that use up little leftovers bits of previous meals.  Good examples that I’ve shared in the recent past are kalua pig tacos (using leftover kalua pig) and zakkoku mai onigiri (using leftover zakkoku mai).  Tori Zosui is another fantastic recipe that can use up leftovers.  Tori Zosui is a thick rice porridge [...]

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FM’s Creamy Crockpot Chicken

I was thinking about one of our favorite dinners, Mr. Fuji’s Creamy Crockpot Porky Chops, and an idea started to form in my mind. What if I applied some of the same ideas to chicken? Enter FM’s Creamy Crockpot Chicken. Ok, so not as fun sounding as porky chops, but still really yummy, I promise! [...]

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La Fuji Mama’s Papa’s Delicious Cornish Game Hens

La Fuji Mama asked me to guest blog for her and I had a wonderful rabbit recipe I was going to use. However, the store I usually purchase rabbit from was out (perhaps because of the recent death of John Updike?), and Cornish game hens were sitting where the rabbit should have been. So having [...]

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Come-to-the-Rescue Chicken Soup

Hello LFM readers! Thank you so much for all of your kind comments! Little Fuji is doing well and I am recovering nicely. However, I’m not quite ready to take back the reins here and so you have the opportunity to hear from a few more of my favorite people in the meantime while I [...]

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Happy Chinese New Year Double Lucky Gifts – Tangerine Peel Chicken and Easy Orange Applique

  Gung Hei Fat Choy Fujiland! It’s Jackie from The Kitchen Post and La Fuji Mama has asked me to share a little bit of Chinese New Year fun with you on this first day of the year of the Ox! I’m sure I can speak for all Fuji fans by wishing the Fuji’s good [...]

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Mr. Fuji’s Creamy Crockpot Porky Chops

Yep, Mr. Studly Mashed Potato Mashing Man was back in the kitchen yesterday cooking for us. Yes ladies, you should be jealous! He took control of the kitchen yesterday like a pro and by the end of the day we had an amazing meal to feast on. Mr. Fuji grew up taking advantage of the [...]

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Comfort Chicken, Orzo, and Ginger Soup

I’m achy and tired and am not sleeping well . . . no, I’m not sick, just pregnant! In a visit to my doc last week she informed me that my belly has grown abnormally large (no wonder I’m so achy and tired)! Aaaah, the joys of pregnancy. Although it is currently pregnancy that ails [...]

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Pumpkin Curry-licious

I love a good curry. There’s just something about the endless array of rich and hearty gravies that shouts “Comfort food!” to me. As I explored the possibilities for Pumpkin Palooza thoughts of curry pushed themselves into my mind. I looked for a good pumpkin curry recipe to share with you, but I just wasn’t [...]

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Ginger Chicken

Saturday night was our first night in the new house. We spent Saturday moving out of our temporary apartment in Irvine. We are still waiting for our things to arrive that were in storage, and hope they arrive soon. My mom, bless her heart, spent her morning helping us move and then her afternoon babysitting [...]

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