La Fuji Mama

To-fish No Misoni (Tofu Simmered in Miso Sauce)

In January, on an Instagram post, I asked what peoples’ favorite Japanese dishes were. It was really fun to see the responses. One of the responses was from @sandrajapandra who said that saba no misoni was her favorite. Saba no misoni is a very traditional Japanese fish dish of mackerel that is simmered in a […]

*Disclosure: This post contains Amazon affiliate links that earn me a small commission, at no additional cost to you. I only recommend products I personally use and love, or think my readers will find useful. I have been finding some pretty strange things in the trash lately: silverware, cups, a My Little Pony, some magnets […]

*This post is brought to you by Little Northern Bakehouse. Tomorrow is National Toast Day! A few weeks ago Little Northern Bakehouse reached out to me about collaborating on a toast project to celebrate National Toast Day. Their bread is gluten-free and vegan (woohoo!), a hard combo to come by, so I thought it would […]

*Disclosure: This post contains Amazon affiliate links that earn me a small commission, at no additional cost to you. I only recommend products I personally use and love, or think my readers will find useful. Today is my 12th blogiversary. It’s hard to believe that I’ve been doing this for that long! When I started my […]

I’ve already extolled the virtues of mapo tofu in the recent past, but did you know that there are variations on mapo tofu? Although my favorite will always be the classic mapo tofu, the version made with eggplant, called mapo nasu, is seriously delicious! Eggplant replaces the tofu in this version of the Japanified Chinese […]

January is a cold month in northern Utah. Looking out my office window right now, seeing the blanket of white on our front lawn, and the icy patches on the road, I am perfectly happy to stay inside where it’s warm and dry. Can you tell that I don’t love the cold? One thing I do love […]

Happy Wednesday Fuji friends! How is your January shaping up so far? Ours has been cold, so I’ve been hibernating a bit. I did get out for a long run this past Saturday, since the sun was actually going to be out, but by the end of the run I was so frozen that it […]

Happy New Year Fuji friends!! I hope you are having a wonderful day. I am currently sitting at my desk typing this in my pajamas. Our older girls go back to school tomorrow, so we are making the most of being comfortable and hanging out together. Last night Mr. Fuji’s family came over to celebrate […]

Last week I wrote a piece for Today’s Mama, that went live this week, about my great-grandmother’s recipe for schaum brötle, a delicate, melt-in-your-mouth, German meringue cookie that is full of chopped walnuts, chocolate chips, and a hint of lemon zest that brightens the flavors. Writing about those cookies had my mouth-watering, so I decided […]

A recipe for a Japanified Chinese dish may seem like a strange thing to post right before Christmas, but Christmastime always makes me think of the scene in A Christmas Story where the neighbor’s dogs escape and get into the kitchen on Christmas Day and eat their turkey, so the Parker family has to have […]

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