Eat, Recycle, Repeat

Who doesn’t love a good shake? Be it a frozen treat, pickup line, dance move, or a really good throttle of your shampoo bottle to get the last bit of lather – I love shakes. Give me a chocolate milkshake and we’ll be friends for life. This recipe has been kid-tested, friend-approved. And my friends [...]

I’m wrapping up two weeks of hosting my mother and youngest brother on their first ever overseas trip. Like me, Japan was the first foreign country they have ever traveled too. I’ve been chef, tour guide, laundry maid, pseudo-translator, allergy-friendly checker, plan-maker, and general battleaxe, as Fred Mertz would say. We’ve been touring for a [...]

I wanted to come up with a fancy name for these, but then I figured it would just be better to tell you like it is, even if the name is long. My friend asked me how I came up with this dessert idea, and I told her the following. I had recieved an orange [...]

I’ve come to the conclusion that people like your blog more when there is dessert. This is slightly sad for someone who spends most of their time avoiding sugar and whose normal dessert is half a roasted sweet potato. BUT, once a week I enjoy some chocolate pudding. Three ingredients, no fuss, pure, velvety, smooth [...]

My dear friend Shirley has just launched a fabulous new site: All Gluten Free Desserts! Shirley is an amazing lynchpin in the gluten-free/allergy-friendly/paleo/food blogger community. She loves bringing people together (virtually and in person) and she loves sharing others recipes in order to help us all have wonderful food memories. I send many friends who [...]

Have you signed up for the whole foods yaki imo giveaway yet? Win a customized box of whole foods goodness from Japan! Check it out here. At the end of the day, simple food tastes best. These baked apples convey the essence of fall, the warmth of a family hearth, and they take about 3 [...]

I hope you have a fun Halloween full of laughs and thrills. We had a great Halloween party with our International Club at school, where I debuted my homemade costume as a Spelling Bee. Tonight I’ll enjoy a special treat: This is my sweet potato soft cream in a roasted kabocha shell, drizzled with coconut [...]

Fridays are sometimes tough teaching days for me. Even on the good days, they require almost double the energy for the rest of the week. So today I woke up and decided to write #100 awesome things about today, turning it into a good day just by virtue of my focus on good things in [...]

This is the final post for this week’s Sugar Series! Don’t miss Addressing Your Sugar Demons, Crowding Out, & Stevia Skepticism! Dessert has a place in life. No matter how much I want to connect with my ancestral self, the modern world is full of distractions – like cocoa powder. I’m not going to kid [...]