La Fuji Mama

Chocolate Banana Greek Yogurt Pops—Feeding Hungry Monkeys After School

When Squirrel comes home from school she’s like a ravenous bear after a winter of hibernation. You’d think I don’t feed the kid based on how hungry she is! I try to shake things up once in a while in the after school snack department, and popsicles are an easy way to bring something new […]

Mother Nature is flat out fickle here in Utah. When we arrived the weather wasn’t much different than the weather we left behind in southern California—warm and sunny—still summer weather.

Transforming a house into a home is not an easy prospect. First you must pick a house. Then comes the task of moving in all of the furniture and boxes, followed by the exhausting monotony of unpacking the contents of those boxes. It’s enough to make one go cross-eyed. But just because you’ve moved into […]

Did you know that it’s National Food Safety Month? Well, it is! I figured I’d talk a bit about food safety as it pertains to eggs, since I’m sharing one of my favorite egg snacks today. Actually I’m revisiting one of my favorite eggs snacks—shoyu tamago, or Japanese soy sauce eggs—hard boiled eggs that have […]

Now that we’re several weeks into the school year, all of my “fresh and fun” lunchbox ideas are starting to be not so fresh, meaning it’s time for me to hit the drawing board again and think up some new fun ideas for what to pack into Squirrel’s bento each day. While it would be […]

Hatch chile season (August through September) makes me ridiculously happy, and the Hatch chile recipe that I’m sharing with you today just makes me plain giddy. (If you’re looking for Hatch chiles, Frieda’s sells them at Ralph’s grocery stores.) I am a total chile head, and Hatch chiles are one of my all-time favorites because […]

The Fuji family is in serious packing mode. On Saturday morning our moving truck will arrive and we’ll be saying goodbye to the house we have loved so much for the past 5 years. It makes my head hurt to think about how much still needs to be done! I recently whipped up a new […]

August is one of my favorite times of year simply for the fact that figs are in season. Unfortunately it seems that although these little jewels have been grown in California for a good long time, people still don’t seem to know what to do with them. I wait, with anticipation, for them to show […]

When my dad was a little boy, he used to fantasize about what life would be like when he was a grownup. He says that he used to dream about the fact that he would be able to put whatever he wanted in his refrigerator (little did he realize that his future wife might have […]

One of the reasons I love summer is that it’s stone fruit season! Today I’m sharing one of my favorite salads, a stone fruit salad with a simple creamy honey and Greek yogurt dressing, over on the Chobani Champions blog. It’s simple and fabulous. Go check it out!

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