La Fuji Mama

New York! New York!

Christmas and my birthday (coming up in January) came early for me! Mr. Fuji surprised me with a trip last month to New York City as an early gift, including having my mom and dad fly up fro Southern California to stay with our kids! It was a quick trip—only 3 days—but we managed to […]

Happy Halloween Fuji fans! I hope your day is going great. I’ve been working on a few Halloween bento ideas in my head for a while and yesterday/today I finally got the chance to execute them!

One of the reasons that I love fall is that it is apple season and I love apples. I’ve been wishing for a bite of a Japanese apple (a little over a year ago I was in Japan experiencing the famous apples of the Aomori region), so decided that a good apple dessert would have to […]

I thought that Monkey loved salad. But I was wrong. Monkey only loves salad when it’s dressed in my hummus herb dressing. So really, I guess the more accurate statement is that Monkey loves hummus herb dressing. I started making hummus dressing last year by combining hummus, ume plum vinegar, and water together. Then, about […]

We have a deep-rooted love for Indian food in our family. In fact, it was my last meal when I was in labor with Squirrel before she was born and my last meal the night before Bug was born. One of our favorites is butter chicken, but since I don’t eat chicken anymore, it’s been […]

I started working on an eBook all about packing bentos a few years ago and then life got in the way, BIG TIME, with things like moving, building a house, and adopting a baby. So the eBook was put on the backburner for a while. But now, it is finally here! Oh! Bento: Rock Your Lunchbox Japanese […]

Happy Friday Pie Day my friends! (And how is it possible that it is already September?!?) I am both loving and hating having my older girls back in school. I love it because it lends a bit more structure to our days and gives them more opportunities to see friends, but I hate it because […]

Post brought to you in partnership with Milkadamia. One of my favorite nuts is macadamia nuts, so when Milkadamia reached out to me asking if I would like to try their milks and new creamers, it was an obvious yes! I’m also a huge fan of nut milks, so it came as no surprise to […]

Potato salad is a classic summer food in my mind. It goes so perfectly with other picnic foods or foods that you might cook on the grill. My FAVORITE style of potato salad is Japanese potato salad, which I’ve written about before.

Post brought to you by BFree Foods. I recently went out to lunch with a friend and had a delicious chickpea salad (like a chicken salad) and have been craving it ever since. So when I received a box of goodies from BFree Foods to try out, I decided it was the perfect excuse to […]

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