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

Tomato Basil Bread: Bringing a fun day in L.A. back home to my kitchen.

Last Thursday I drove to L.A. to attend a cooking class at the Farmer’s Market Sur La Table store, sponsored by Zojirushi, called “Easy Meals for Families.” The class focused on items that could be prepared using a rice cooker and a bread maker. The instructor demonstrated a tomato basil bread, a meatloaf (done in […]

Red Snapper Tin Foil Dinner

I love a good tin foil dinner (TFD)–meat and veggies wrapped in tin foil and cooked over the hot coals of a campfire. I have some fun memories of making simple meals this way at a girls camp during the summers of my teenage years. There’s something about food cooked over a campfire and eaten […]

Baked Stuffed Kabocha

Marx Foods recently called for entries in their Blogger Recipe Challenge: Game Sausage Edition. I entered an idea for a recipe that would use one of the game sausages from their game sausage sampler, and my idea was picked to be in the challenge! (All of the recipes chosen for the challenge will be spotlighted […]

Lemon Shortbread Bars

FM’s Lemon Shortbread Bars Makes one 9×13 pan of bars 3 cups all-purpose flour 1 1/3 cup confectioners’ sugar (plus additional sugar for dusting top of bars) 1 1/2 cups butter, softened 4 large eggs 2 cups sugar 1/4 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 cup lemon juice Confectioners’ sugar for dusting finished lemon bars 1. Preheat […]

Lemon Anise Cookies

I’ve been in a lemon mood lately, so I’ve been dreaming up all kinds of lemon desserts in my head. A few of them have actually made it out of my head and into my kitchen. One of those were these little lemon anise cookies.I love the flavor of anise–sweet and woodsy with a bit […]

Rainbow Potato Gratin

Sigh. First I’m hit with technical difficulties of the computer kind, and now technical difficulties of the cerebral kind. This post was all written and ready to go yesterday, but then someone forgot to hit the post button. Doh! I’m starting to think this post is jinxed because it has taken me so long to […]

Cream Cheese Pecan Strudel

Yep, it’s that time of the month again! The time when I roll up my sleeves and get daring along with the rest of the Daring Bakers gang. The May Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Linda of make life sweeter! and Courtney of Coco Cooks. They chose Apple Strudel from the recipe book Kaffeehaus: […]

Strawberry Gelato–the perfect finish to a Memorial Day feast

Yay! I am back in business! I hate not being able to post. Yesterday was Memorial Day here in the US so Mr. Fuji had the day off. It was an absolutely beautiful day–warm, but not to hot, with a bit of a breeze and plenty of sunshine.We spent part of the afternoon at a […]

Phooey Patooey!

Grrrr, sometimes I hate computers! Our main desktop computer that I do 90% of my blogging on, and all of my downloading and editing of photos on just died, and there is no raising it from the dead. So, my plans to share that potato gratin with you will have to wait. We will be […]

Let’s get roll-in.

I love having friends and family that share my passion for good food. When you are around foodies, you often are also around people that have wonderful recipes to share. Cooking and eating are not solitary sports. Even if you happen to be cooking or eating alone on a particular occasion, the effort to get […]

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