Japanese Style Bread

I made a Japanese style bread.

The crust is really crispy and thin.

The cram has rich taste and wonderful tender texture.

Soooooooo goooooood!!!

Baby Rabbit

I found a baby rabbit in my herb garden!

She was under the dead leaves and freezing.

Soooooooo Cute!!!!

Homemade Live yeast Breads

Today, I made some breads with my homemade live yeast.

The live yeast was made from organic raisins.

Making the live yeast is easier than I had expected.

You need just good raisins ( apple, strawberries or other fruit),

good water and good whole wheat flour.

This is my live yeast in a zip lock bag. Can you see the air bubbles?

This has dry figs and walnuts

I chose low temperature rising. It is good for live yeast, and easy.

You just need to put the dough in your refrigerator for 24 hours.

The live yeast bread has a good fragrance

and the low temperature rising makes their skin crispy.

Bento Box! It's so smart!

Bento box is a Japanese lunch box.
I sometimes cook for Mr.and Mrs. P. in bento style.
Mrs. P. loves this bento box.
It was given to me by my mother-in-law about twenty years ago! However, it looks like almost new because we didn't go on picnics very often. I completely forgot I even had it until I started to cook "bento" for them just three months ago.
It serves two persons, has two containers, two plates and two forks. You can stack up these containers when you have your food in them, and can fit one inside the other when they are empty. You can also carry it with its clever belt in both instances. How smart!

One day, I cooked Stuffed Tomatoes for them, but the tomatoes were a bit too tall to put into the bento box. So I chose other ordinary containers.

When she saw the containers, she said,

"Where is my bento? I miss my bento box!"
The bento box finally won recognition!!

Gift from Ms. G

Beautiful!!!