Possums, hello! There’s something I want to talk about. I’ve been meaning and meaning to come here but I didn’t know quite what to say - it (whatever "it" is) is as yet unformed so I think I ...
December the 16th is, in my opinion, one of the most auspicious days of the year; without it, my life would be immeasurably poorer. The reason it’s such a happy day is because it’s the birthday of th...
Even though this weekend marks the end of my first semester back at school, what I really want to say is: I made cheese! Not once or twice! But thrice! Don’t mean to show off or anything (I’m showing...
I really like mums. I didn’t always particularly though. When my friends and I were unruly teenagers skulking in parks after dark and knocking back gutrot that bore so little resemblance to actual vo...
I’ve been feeling a bit like a guinea pig lately. Don’t worry, Peruvians have not been trying to eat me, it’s just that we’ve been doing a lot of experiments on ourselves at school. The most challeng...
Hello my lovelies, how I’ve missed you while I’ve been away! That was the longest time I’ve been away from Sasasunakku since I started, way back when, with Smitten’s bagels, and I’ve thought about yo...
In case you haven’t noticed, my photos don’t seem to have said goodbye to my old kitchen yet. I’m sure a therapist could have a field day with that (and probably with me in general if I’m honest) but...
Im home! It feels like a warm bath on a cold day to go eat Korean wild sesame steamboat with my friends and then call Peppermint Patty, an ice-cream parlour (and I do mean parlour) to ask them if the...
I dont normally weigh in on the bloggers vs. professional food writers debate because the fact that its always framed as a dichotomy seems to me to make any argument pointless considering the fact th...
*Short trips are awesome. I’ve always been a quit-my-job-and-travel-until-m y-money-runs-out kind of person but living on The Continent (an anachronism I know, but it nevertheless (or therefore?) amus...
This is the artichoke-peelingest mofo in the west, bar none. Or none that Ive ever seen. Actually, thats not strictly true; F. took this video at Götztepe Market - recommended by the intrepid Robyn E...
There’s a special feeling I get when a big move is imminent, kind of bittersweetly jittery, kind of wistfully melancholic. All the things I should be doing mill about in my head, jostling for space a...
Since I live an extremely glamorous life, I recently drove to Milan with my dear friend Steffi for a spot of shopping. And by Milan I mean 40 minutes out of Milan near the birthplace of that famed ch...
I spent the afternoon swearing at the neighbours in my head the other day. Every time I get everything done and go out on the balcony to lie in the sun - I’ve got to make the most of it while I can, ...
This is a picture of me eating gatsu gatsu-ly (mainly because no-one else would let me post a picture of them with their mouth full, the things I do...) To eat "gatsu gatsu" means to eat with...
You know how people say “If you were going to die in a year, what would you do?” to gauge what it is you should be doing in life? It doesn’t work on me. At all. I get even more confused. I’ve always ...
Im fairly bursting with Spring fever still. The highs are in double digits! There are vegetables other than carrots and parsnips (not that Im disparaging carrots, you understand) and sometimes I just...
Since Auckland is pretty well evergreen and that’s where I spent my formative years, this real Spring thing knocks me for six every time it happens. Spring in Tokyo was beautiful too - when you came ...
Mochi mochi means glutinous (not glutenous!) and sticky. Mochi mochi stuff has a chewy bite, for example mochi (natch), sticky rice like the sekihan in the picture, some kinds of mushipan and Pao de ...
I said it a while ago and I’ll say it again: I’m not very good at capturing moments that have just happened. Somehow, events need a little percolation for me to be able to write about them - more tha...
Among the bizarre and/or impersonal emails I’ve been sent by PR people (one started “Hi there...” and wanted to send me seeds. Understandable since, you know, I keep my name top secret and this is a ...
Three years ago, my best friend and I went from London to Paris to meet my mum and stepfather who were renting an apartment there for a few days. There was a cute little kitchen where we prepared sim...
When I was a little girl, I never questioned why there was always more toilet paper stacked up than could conceivably be used in half a year, bags of rice in the spare room, boxes upon tidily packed ...
Spring, are you teasing, or is it really you? It’s been such a long time since I could go outside without wearing the down coat I talked about in my last snippets that I bit the bullet when I saw the...
My German language skills could use some work but I had always thought, just privately, that I could read the hell out of a menu. In fact, I pride myself on being able to read a menu in far more lang...
Hoka hoka means piping hot. Foods like onabe (hotpot) and drinks like hot coffee, lemon, ginger and honey tea and soup are hoka hoka. Audioscript: "Misoshiru ha, hoka hoka no hou ga oishii" (...
I’m feeling a bit of a stunned mullet this week, please excuse my not dropping in. On Tuesday morning I was woken by F.’s phone buzzing even though I told him to please turn that thing off when we ar...
The art of Pancakery came to her late in life but with a vengeance Orangettes Oatmeal Pancakes which Ive renamed Porridge Pancakes for the pleasing alliteration and made maybe eight times since I dis...
Smitten Kitchen is my desert island blog. From a woman who at last count had well over 200 subscriptions in her Google Reader, that’s a fairly strong statement I guess, but there it is. Deb is one of...
This isn’t a Japanese onomatopoeia post, but it’s trying to trick me into being one. They’ve infiltrated my brain I tell you, I need succour! You mightn’t think that onomatopoeia could infiltrate a b...
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