Culinary Adventurism

My Future As a Watermelon Carver

I recently had to face the cold hard truth. I do not have a future in fruit carving. At least not for a long, long time. I know that this may sound like an odd profession to try dabbling in, so let me back up a bit and explain.

Get it? Goat Milk? Got Milk? I’m sorry, I couldn’t help myself, it was just too irresistible! But seriously, why goat? Well if you live in the United States, you might be surprised to learn that goat is the most widely consumed meat on the planet. In fact, about 70 percent of the red […]

As I mentioned in my last post, Bella Ninja (aka, Paula of bell’alimento), Salty Ninja (aka, Linda of Salty Seattle), and I (Fuji Ninja!) have formed a dangerous Food Ninja trio to give you the opportunity of sharing your Food Ninja skills with the world! Starting today (until October 24th, 2010 at 10pm PST), you […]

You have no idea how excited I’ve been to hit “Publish” on this post! This is a little sneak peak about a contest that will be launching this Thursday (October 7th), that ANYONE can participate in (whether you have a blog or not)! Bella Ninja (aka, Paula of bell’alimento), Salty Ninja (aka, Linda of Salty […]

Over the past six months I’ve had several people suggest the idea of planning a get together where I showed everyone how to make sushi. I finally decided to make it happen and enlisted a trusty team of accomplices to pull it off. Over the month and a half that it took us to plan […]

(Sort of) Brazilian Sweetened Condensed Milk Strawberry Limeade Adapted from Big Davy’s Brazilian Lemonade Recipe Makes about 4 3/4 cups of limeade3 cups cold water 1 cup strawberry syrup juice of 4 limes zest of 1 lime, finely grated 1/3 cup sweetened condensed milk 1. Put the the cold water, strawberry syrup, lime juice, and […]

*News: The past week has been a busy one for this little blog! Last week I was interviewed on Tasty Kitchen. If you’d like to hear about some of the strange things I’ve eaten, or read the story about one of my kitchen disasters, go read the interview. Yesterday CNN’s Eatocracy featured La Fuji Mama. […]

Swedish Princess Torte Adapted from Tartelette’s recipe and Baking Obsession’s recipe Makes approximately 16 servings For the Soaking Syrup: (adapted from Baking Obsession’s soaking syrup recipe) 1/2 cup water 1/4 cup granulated sugar 3 tablespoons berry juice (combination of blueberry/raspberry/strawberry juices), optional Combine the water and sugar in a small saucepan, and heat over medium […]

Next week we’ll be making a dish that uses this beauty: Any guesses? Leave your best guess in the comments (it doesn’t matter if you’re right!) and I will use the random number generator to pick one of your comments and send the winner some of this ingredient so they can make next week’s mystery […]

Utah Knows Cheese

Continuing on a bit with my Utah laundry list, I have to tell you about Cache Valley Cheese curds. This particular item makes the top of Mr. Fuji’s laundry list because he absolutely adores cheese curds. In fact cheese curds may rank above me in the big scheme of things. That’s okay, at least I […]

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