Obachan's Kitchen & Balcony Garden

Clumsy with chopsticks but can't live without them... ** I don't post English translations of Japanese recipes without permissions from the recipe authors. But feel free to contact me about the dishes you're interested in.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

This Is The Last Post On This Blog

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The Last Look at Obachan's Kitchen (I took this shot with my cell phone camera right before I left my apartment for good.) Dear Readers,...
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Sunday, April 26, 2009

Okara Quiche With Broccoli

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Okara Quiche With Broccoli I tried out a couple of okara recipes in the beginning of this month, but I wasn't going to post about them...
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Okara Cookies

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Okara Cookies Following the okara quiche experiment posted above, I tried out a few " okara sweets" such as cookies and pound ...
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Saturday, April 18, 2009

Flooded But Tasted Good

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Cherry Pie I used EXPENSIVE canned dark cherries, and maybe I shouldn't have added the juice in the can. But this filling recipe called...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Tomato Spinach and Tuna Salad

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Tomato and Spinach Salad with Tuna Dressing (I can't see much tuna in this photo, though) Mmmmm... I think I like this salad better than...
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Monday, April 13, 2009

Could Be My Last Time To Eat Delivered Pizza

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"Chicago Pizza " Phew! F-I-N-A-L-L-Y it's over! I was really stressed out yesterday , being buried under empty cans, bottles a...
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Thursday, April 09, 2009

Improved...?!

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Soft French Bread (Malt Flour Added) Well, you can't tell if this bread is better or worse compared to the one I baked before without m...
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Sunday, April 05, 2009

Test Batch

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Small Double-Crust Apple Pie Following the trans-fat free margarine I posted about the other day, I finally got trans-fat free shortening, ...
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Saturday, March 28, 2009

"Sad and Sweet" Farewell

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Farewell Presents Given to Me Yesterday プレゼント、本当に本当にありがとうございました! (^^) My last day at the language school is coming closer, and I've been...
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Inexpensive Fun

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Homemade strawberry Jam, Apple Preserves and leftover Hassaku Marmalade I don't know about other areas in Japan, but around here the pr...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

One Year Wiser... Hopefully

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Well, I'm not really sure if I'm one year wiser, and that's why you can't see that part of the text very clearly in the phot...
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Sunday, March 22, 2009

On A Gorgeous Sunny Day

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Home-Baked French Bread It was such a gorgeous day yesterday! The day before yesterday (Mar. 20th) was my last day at the daytime job. No mo...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Simple and Tasty

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"Addictive" Tuna and Cabbage Salad? Another recipe from a Japanese recipe site. It really appealed to my curiosity because the co...
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Sunday, March 15, 2009

Things I Wish I Knew Earlier

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Whole Wheat Biscuits with Trans-Fat Free Margarine and Maple Syrup / Strawberry Jam Going through my previous posts, it was 2003 when I fir...
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Muroto, Kochi, Japan
"OBACHAN" means a "middle-aged woman" or "aunty" in Japanese. .*************************. Having moved back to my hometown in April 2009, I live in one of the desperately underpopulated areas in Japan now. Let me share my life in a real countryside with aging parents living in the same house. And here in Muroto -- the place where I chose to live -- you can hear the heartbeat of the Earth! ;)
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