La Fuji Mama

Chocolate Caramel Cashew Spread—Happy New Year!

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 […]

*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. Hello Fuji friends! I’ve been working on buying gifts for everyone on our gift list and struggling with a few. Aren’t […]

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 […]

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