La Fuji Mama — Bringing world flavors to the family dinner table.

Time flies…

Wow. I cannot believe how busy the past couple of weeks have been. We hopped the pond and looked at so many houses that it makes my mind hurt just to think about all of them. Some were okay and others were just plain scary. We may have found a place, but now we’re playing […]

Park adventures and skipping dinner.

Yesterday was a national holiday and so Mr. Fuji had the day off. We took advantage of the beautiful weather and drove out to a large park called Inokashira Park. This particular park is a wonderful place to be on the weekends or on a holiday, because there are always many street performers and […]

Edible Fuji

"Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun." — Ruth Westheimer When I looked over this month's Daring Bakers challenge, I though "Eh, no problem! Totally doable!" However, when I started to break down the process and think about each step, […]

Not just any chicken sandwich.

I thought I would share a couple more sakura finds that I thought were interesting. The first is a manhole cover that Squirrel and I came across on our daily walk. Isn't it pretty? The second was a bottle of Canada Dry Sakura Mist. I would definitely drink this again. It was […]

Crocodile au chocolat?

Yesterday I left you guessing what I purchased at an establishment called Chococro. The first time I ever saw a Chococro I thought, what? Chocolate crocodile? Then I went inside to look at the menu and I understood. Not CROcodile, but CROissant, or more specifically what I know as a pain au chocolat. A pain […]

Sugar Rush

What are little girls made of, made of?What are little girls made of?Sugar and spice, and everything nice,That’s what little girls are made of. – excerpt from a popular nursery rhyme dating from the early nineteenth century After the past week, I don’t know if I’m made of sugar, but I’m definitely filled with it! […]

I’ll have a plate of Engrish garnished with some Think Sauce please.

Saturday night we met up with a group of people to celebrate a friend’s birthday. We went to a fun restaurant called the Elephant Cafe, a fun Southeast Asian restaurant. The menu was in both Japanese and English, but it was very obvious which language had come first in writing this menu (unlike the chicken […]

Bento Bound—FM’s Tuna Onigiri

FM’s Tuna Onigiri Makes 4 rice balls 2 cups freshly cooked Japanese rice (any short grain rice will do), kept warm 1 1/2 tablespoons soy sauce 1 1/2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar 3 tablespoons canned tuna, drained 1 tablespoon hijiki 1. Place the hijiki in a small strainer and rinse. Place in bowl of warm […]

I take my job seriously.

I’m a blogeuse (that’s the female version thank you very much), and gosh darn it I’m going to do my job! I know my last post had a depressing tone to it, but thank you for letting me openly wallow in my depression about my move for a bit–very therapeutic! A couple of you expressed […]

Hoping for warmer weather

Despite my last two posts, life isn’t all fun and games. Sometimes we have to do things that aren’t fun or are hard. I have delayed writing this post somewhat because I just wasn’t ready to face it. Today we were walking around outside with Squirrel and I was noticing that the sakura are almost […]

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