Taste of Tohoku
Valentine’s is over, but do you know about “White Day”?
It’s a Japanese tradition for the girls to have to give chocolates on Valentine’s Day to their boyfriend first!!
And then on White Day (14 March), men who received chocolates on Valentine’s Day are expected to return the favor by giving gifts.
Now there are a few types of Valentine’s choco! Well, chocolates have just got really complicated in Japan XD. How many of them are you familiar with?
Here are some of my recent OOTDs!
Lately there are a lot of obsessions that define my styles for the past few months. The danna influenced me so much that sometimes half his wardrobe became mine lololol. Here are some of my heavy-rotation fashion must-haves!
1. Sneakers
Coordinate 1
The only thing i keep buying and buying is sneakers. I used to own zero pair. My shoe cabinet was full of five and a half inch heels that i couldn’t even wear for more than 10 seconds. I used to feel inferior about my height (i am 158cm) so i would never be seen dead in a pair of flats. I didn’t like to be the short one in photos. T_T. I was like that even during my late pregnancy,
Other than dannaben we do cook lunch & dinner at most most of the days now!
Here are some of the Cheat One™ meals in our house.
Meal 1
Vegetable cream stew (broccoli, shimeji mushroom, carrot and brussel sprouts with bacon), Japanese pear and Yakult!
Meal 2
Yong tau fu. This is one of my favorite because it’s easy and can batch make a lot to keep for several meals. And also very low carb!
Meal 3
Quick pasta lunch.
Meal 4
Don’t know if you can even imagined this, but it’s a Danna Recipe! It’s called Tomato and Avocado Sashimi. Basically it is what it is: raw diced tomato and raw diced avocado (sashimi) with wasabi and soy sauce. It probably sounds very strange but it’s surprisingly very good! The avocado is rich, creamy akin that of fatty maguro or toro!! We also had a version with added tuna flakes. 😀
Apparently the danna is at the heaviest of his life now, so he requested me to control his diet by making healthy bento every day to help him lose weight .
So this is a collection of some of the dannaben (lunch box for husband in Japanese. Bento for the danna = dannaben) for him to bring to work. They are quite repetitive (batch cook for one week!) so i don’t think they are very interesting, mostly for my own reference. Anyway no more Kyaraben because in the end i decided it’s just not worth the time lolol. I’d rather spend extra 5 minutes to actually take a proper dump wtf.
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