Lunch Today.
I find it hard to stay very raw when the weather is so cold, but I do keep 2 out of 3 meals raw everyday. This is my newest acquisition — Hello Kitty Rice Bowl with Cover.
So my regression continues… 
Dessert after lunch today:
* all ingredients organic *
1 1/4 cup freshly ground soft whole wheat
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 mashed banana
2 tbsp coconut oil
1 tbsp ground flax seed plus 3 tbsp water (as egg replacer)
1/2 cup homemade Vanilla Brazil nut milk
1/2 cup maple sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
Tofutti tofu cream cheese for frosting
Lunch today, persimmon & kiwi in double deck Hello Kitty lunch box — not really LouLou’s…
Ever since I started using this amazing organic grocery delivery service — Urban Organic, I have had abundant of in season organic fruits and vegetables that taste so exceptionally great. I really didn’t know there could be such a huge difference in the texture and taste of a fruit when it is grown right. Help saving this planet is quite a fantastic thing after all
Got the cutest Hello Kitty Bento Boxes (one in red, one in black) decided to make things to fill it up for dinner. After his lesson, Ryota and I started making gyoza (dumplings) from scratch (from dough to vege stuffing), and we made vege udon noodle and some raw vege sushi to go with it. Ryota gets around the kitchen really well, he figures everything out so quickly, a great little helper Not that I show favoritism with my students, I know Ryota’s dad Takashi since I was in high school, he lived just across the hall way from me and still does with his family. I first met Ryota when his mom Wakako was pregnant with him, and he is now 10! Pretty amazing.
(BooBoo always sits on the table when we eat, politely, but very determined to guilt you into feeding him some yummy food )
I haven’t had anyone cooking in my kitchen since my sous chef Nathaniel Yangco passed away earlier this year… Everything in my kitchen reminds me of him, for that he never stopped asking about the technique for every tool I have, and for every dish we made, he took more pride in it then I did… It is nice to have a sous chef again — I had a ball using child labor
Saw the Danish Ebelskiver Iron on Williams-Sonoma’s catalogue, thought of the red (Adzuki) bean paste stuffed pancake I was so fond of as a child, I knew I had to have it.
The Danish calls it “ebelskiver”, we Taiwanese makes it in the shape of car wheel and simply calls it car wheel “tcha luan”, and the Japanese makes it in the shape of fish called “taiyaki” (red snaper bake) or in round shape called “dorayaki” which is Doraiemon’s favorite food I guess there is a version of it in every culture… whatever sweet treat it is stuffed with, it is delicious!
Made dorayaki for Ryota yesterday, he has become a very mature looking kid over his summer vocation in Japan. His Chopin F minor Etude Op. 25-2 is sounding fantastic now, I think we will put it on his podcast soon
Just found this on YouTube, I am ordering a Taiyaki Maker
Favorite toys used:
Hello Kitty slow cooker to cook the red bean to perfection (then chilled and sweetened with Organic Raw Agave Nectar
Made my very first bento lunch: Miso Soup, Mix Vege Stir Fry, Vegan Kielbasa (made of Soy Protein) and Short Grain Brown Rice with Sesame Hello Kitty. That was fun
Favorite toys used:
(Hello Kitty Stencils found on eBay & Bento Box)
Home now from IKIF, sipping the unfiltered Japanese sake with my Hello Kitty Sake set… Life at its best or cutest
I was in Indiana on Amelia’s 2nd birthday, her mommy Shih-Yi (my dear friend for the past 17 years!) suggested that we take her for gelato last night to make up for it. I haven’t leisurely walk out the house for quite a long time, it was really nice.
I got some cute bobbing head frog picture frame, and Hello Kitty novelties for Amelia, I find them innovative. (pictured: Hello Kitty training Chopsticks, and Fork & spoon set)
Last time I was over rehearsing with Amelia’s daddy Derek, Amelia was showing off her new turning up side down stunt to me, I knew I had to get her the happy face pants/skirt set. Amelia almost tuned red posing for me, she even learned to say Amelia Happy Face 
Zoe’s mommy, my dear friend Celine, once told me how much Zoe loves to sing. I was ecstatic when I found this Hello Kitty CD player and Karaoke system!
hmm, how I would have loved to keep it for myself, but it seems like she is going to have lots more fun with it than me
It’s been many weeks since my last post. So much practicing I have been doing, a very wonderful thing though — to be able to feel even just the inkling of mastery over this magnificent instrument, piano, is beyond joyous to me.
I got this most adorable Hello kitty e-Card today from Beth, maybe my thing for Hello Kitty has become infamous — just wait until I have time to start posting all my Kitty gadgets…
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