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Hot Stuff for Valentine’s Day! Hot Chocolate Mix and Fun Gift Labels

Hi there Fuji Fans! My name is Lolly of LollyChops.com! I am super excited to be a guest here today! A few weeks ago before Lil’ Fuji Too was born – LFM and I were talking and I asked her if I could be her guest while she was getting back into the swing of […]

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 […]

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 […]

Potato Soup for the Soul

Not being able to do any real cooking lately has been insanely frustrating! I’m just itching to get back into the kitchen. But Little Fuji #2 will be here soon and I’ll be allowed to be back on my feet again–WAHOO! It’s a good thing that I have had people willing to come and use […]

Celebrating Simplicity: Quick and Easy Carrot Sesame Salad

When I think of Japanese cuisine, one of the words that comes to mind is “simple.” Not all Japanese dishes are simple, but many celebrate flavors and ingredients through simplicity. Some of my favorite dishes have relatively few ingredients and focus on highlighting flavors and celebrating certain seasonal ingredients. Leonardo DaVinci is quoted as having […]

Cousin Jack Pasties

I’ve been meaning to make a certain recipe out of the little cookbook of all her recipes that Nate’s Grandma Ellie gave me when we got married and just have never gotten around to it–a recipe called Cousin Jack Pasties. I fell in love with Cornish Pasties,a savory pastry filled with meat and vegetables, when […]

One Good Loaf: Cheating with Fruit Cake

Ellie’s Fruit Cake 1 c. vegetable oil 1 1/3 c. sugar 1/4 c. molasses 4 eggs 2 c. flour 1 tsp. baking powder 2 tsp. salt 2 tsp. cinnamon 1 tsp. nutmeg 1 c. orange juice 1 c. more sifted flour 2 2/3 c. (15-oz.) seedless raisins 2 c. (1 lb.) cut-up dates 2 c. […]

Schaum Brötle–"little foam cookies"

Update 12/8/09: I’m excited to be a featured blogger on Oprah.com for Oprah.com’s Holiday 2009 blow-out ~ come see our favorite holiday recipes! The Fujis made it safely to Utah, just before a snowstorm hit–phew! As I type this post I can look out the window of my MIL’s kitchen and watch snow softly falling, […]

Stollen Expectations—German Christmas Stollen with Marzipan

This week for One Good Loaf I cheated.I made stollen instead of bread. I know, I know, it’s more of a cake not bread, but my doctor has restricted my activities and so I have to carefully pick and choose what I’m going to do during the week, and this week there was just no […]

Chocolate Marzipan Balls

Yesterday was Squirrel’s 2nd birthday.I’m still in shock that she is already that old! Where have the past two years gone? The foodie world helped celebrate her birthday by having Michelin release its selection of recommended hotels and restaurants in the MICHELIN guide Tokyo 2009 (Squirrel was born in Tokyo). Tokyo is now tied with […]

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