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Fuji Mama’s Favorite Cupcake: Black Bottom Cupcakes

Fuji Nana’s Black Bottom Cupcakes Makes 30 cupcakes 1 chocolate cake mix (I prefer to use a Devil’s Food cake mix) 1 package (8 oz.) cream cheese 1 egg, beaten slightly 1/3 cup sugar 1 cup chocolate chips 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line cupcake tins with paper baking cups and spray lightly […]

Cupcake History 101

Happy Cupcake Week everyone! It is going to be such a great week. Lolly and I are co-hosting this week and have been working for the past several months getting ready (and probably gained several pounds). We hope you’re as excited about it as we are! This week will be filled to the bursting point […]

Mother’s Cookies Circus Animal Cookies are back!!!

I wasn’t planning on blogging today, but then a package appeared on my doorstep that changed my mind. The whole Fuji family has been so excited about this package, that I decided I’d have to share my excitement with you.Mother’s Cookies, a company based in Oakland, CA, that had been in business for 92 years […]

Homemade Shirley Temples (aka, How To Awaken Your Inner Kid)

I remember the first time I tasted a Shirley Temple. I was in the 7th grade and was eating at a restaurant called El Gato Gordo (The Fat Cat). It was an award luncheon for school and we were allowed to order whatever we wanted off of the menu, including drinks, and so I ordered […]

Beef & Broccoli Stir-fry With a Twist

The other day I picked up the May issue of Bon Appetit magazine.As I flipped through it, the title of a recipe caught my eye–Stir-Fried Beef, Broccoli, and Yams. Oh yum. The magazine explained that the recipe was taking the ever so popular Chinese dish of beef and broccoli and taking it up a notch […]

Furochic Winners!

The four winners of the Furochic reusable fabric gift wraps (picked by my trusty random number generator) are Semsavblanc, mushroommeadows, TheGourmetGirl, and Danica’s Daily. CONGRATS!! I’ll be contacting you later today for your addresses! Semsavblanc said, “One of the things I have been doing to be Earth friendly is I have stopped using plastic bags […]

Chocolate Chunk Nutella Cheesecake

Today is the posting day for this month’s Daring Bakers challenge. Of course being the airhead sleep-deprived mother-of-two that I am, I totally blanked on making this month’s challenge until I realized on Saturday that the end of the month was right around the corner. The April 2009 challenge is hosted by Jenny from Jenny […]

Calling all garlic lovers! 40 Clove Garlic Chicken

“Garlic used as it should be used is the soul, the divine essence, of cookery. The cook who can employ it successfully will be found to possess the delicacy of perception, the accuracy of judgment, and the dexterity of hand which go to the formation of a great artist.” — Mrs. W.G. Waters in ‘The […]

Exercising my (hopefully) green thumb.

I have loved Earth Week and am sad to see it end. It has been fun to focus on Earth inspired treats and ways to become more Earth friendly. I think I’ll be doing this again next year! I spent the morning out in our backyard doing some planting. (An appropriate activity to wind up […]

Earth Day Sugar Cookies

What did you do for Earth Day yesterday? I took the Fujilings to the park for the morning. A friend of mine has started a park group where we meet up at a different park every week (our city has a TON of parks) to enjoy the sunshine and fresh air and get our kids […]

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