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For Japan With Love

It has been a week since the massive 9.0 earthquake in northeastern Japan, and nothing is as it was. I’ve had a difficult time finding the “oomph” to continue on as normal here on LFM. Luckily I’ve found some projects for myself that make it so that I can do something other than sit and [...]

My first meal in Japan was nothing fancy, yet it still remains one of my fondest memories of my first time living in Japan, as it was one of the moments where I caught a glimpse of how much I was going to love the country. I remember landing at Narita Airport for the first [...]

If someone had told me a few years ago that I would have a group of friends that I had made on the internet, I would have thought that they were crazy. Fast forward to the present, and that is exactly what has happened. Life as a food blogger has given me a community that [...]

Fujigami Candy Box

A couple of weeks ago fellow blogger, friend, and crafty woman extraordinaire, Miss Lolly, posted a free download for paper that you can print out called “Ella.”I instantly fell in love with the pattern and decided that I needed a little candy box to sit next to my computer so that I’d have instant access [...]

Who’s your Papa? Beard Papa’s Cream Puffs

No, I’m not back in Tokyo to go to my favorite Beard Papa’s in Shibuya station (I wish!), and no, I didn’t drive back to the Costa Mesa Marukai to check out the Beard Papa’s there either. When I discovered that Beard Papa’s had made its way to the US, I looked up the different [...]

Heavenly Hanami

Do you remember how I said in my post yesterday that, “Cherry blossom season = heaven on earth!”? Well with a statement like that, do you really think I would limit my comments on cherry blossoms to only part of one post? No! As an old Japanese proverb says: “The cherry is first among flowers, [...]

Taking time to stop and smell the flowers . . . .

I Failed to realize, with the Frenetic pace of March, that my deadline for “F” had Flown past me! Luckily, I got a gentle nudge yesterday from Fuji-san who decided to make an appearance. As I was admiring my patron mountain yesterday morning it reminded me that I needed to do an “F” post. “F” [...]

Onigiri Oblations

I love onigiri. So does Squirrel. Onigiri (御握り; おにぎり) is a Japanese rice ball snack–mmmm. These rice balls are often shaped into triangles or rounds and have a variety of fillings and are often wrapped with a sheet of nori, or seaweed. However they can also be simple balls/triangles of rice that are dipped in [...]

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