For Easter weekend I decided to make a variation of the tradition Chinese tea egg. These are hard boiled eggs with pretty marble patterns, usually dyed with a tea and soy sauce recipe that both stains the egg and flavors it. This is how I made them. First make the hard-boiled eggs. I’ve always been [...]
It really fills my heart with joy when I hear a good love story, and I am especially happy to hear it from my friends. This past weekend one of my friends told me how she hates when her fiance makes the bacon flavored sausages he likes to eat for breakfast. She wakes up smelling [...]
Prairie dogs are very social and often greet each other with kisses!
One Good Bumblebee’s collection. An integral part of the American scene for approximately 50 years, PEZ Candy has been enjoyed by generations of Americans. PEZ was first marketed as a compressed peppermint candy over 70 years ago in Vienna, Austria. The name PEZ was derived from the German word for peppermint… PfeffErminZ. Today, over 3 [...]
Luckysundae makes beautiful bento lunches for her children twice a week! Her work has been published in Face Food: The Visual Creativity of Japanese Bento Boxes. Take a look at all her delicious creations on her flickr.
For those of you who carefully look around the fish counter for wild salmon instead of its farm-raised cousin, bad news. Federal officials are likely to close Pacific salmon stocks from Oregon south to the Mexican border, The New York Times has reported. “The Central Valley fall Chinook salmon are in the worst condition since [...]
View more of Sakurako Kitsa’s handywork. Bentō (弁当 or べんとう, Bentō?) is a single-portion takeout or home-packed meal common in Japanese cuisine. A traditional bento consists of rice, fish or meat, and one or more pickled or cooked vegetables as a side dish. Containers range from disposable mass produced to hand crafted lacquerware. Although bento [...]