“Half and Half” Torrance, 2016
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“Half and Half” Torrance, 2016
Category: Food
“Half and Half” Torrance, 2016
Christmas Day
“Cards” Torrance, 2016
こんばんは！How’s it going?
Merry Christmas everyone! 🎅 Today the entire immediate family was together to celebrate Christmas, open presents, eat our traditional meals, and enjoy each other’s company. It began with the handing out of the stockings and then we dug into our brunch, which is always bagels, lox, roast beef, pastrami, corned beef, potato/mac salad. In addition, we had a few Jamaican patties. 🍴😃
“Christmas Breakfast” Torrance, 2016
After we stuffed ourselves, it was time to open presents! 🎁 I think everyone received some nice gifts this year, and our suitcases will be full of goodies for the return trip home.
The rest of the day was spent relaxing, hanging out, a little street football, and then our traditional Christmas dinner – the Hawaiian feast! 🌴 It was delicious as usual. Lomi salmon, kalua pig, chicken and pork lau-lau, two types of poke, chicken long rice, spare ribs, and macaroni salad. Once again we were stuffed with good food. One of the highlights every year!
“Hawaiian Dinner” Torrance, 2016
I hope you had a nice Christmas! 🎄
おやすみなさい！
– B 
Home Cooking
“Breakfast Fixins” Torrance, 2016
こんばんは！How’s it going?
My mom makes some amazing Jamaican food (she grew up in Port Antonio, Jamaica) and over the holidays, she always prepares a huge Jamaican feast. The Jamaican dinner will be for Christmas eve, but today we had a Jamaican breakfast, which consisted of ackee and saltfish and hard dough bread. It’s a super-special treat to eat this yummy food!
“Ackee and Saltfish” Torrance, 2016
I hope you had a nice day!
おやすみなさい！
– B
Cold Day
“Hot Pho” Cedar Park, 2016
こんばんは！How’s it going?
Today was one of those crazy weather days we have once or twice a year here in Texas, where the temperature swings drastically. During the day, we enjoyed a nice 75° F breeze but around 5 PM, the wind 🌬 picked up and the cold front came down from the north. Mariko went out for dinner and when we entered the restaurant, it was about 65° F, but when we left the restaurant 45 minutes later, it was about 50°! Then later, in the evening we went to see a late movie at 10 PM and it was already at the 32° F freezing point! ❄️
I mentioned we went out for dinner, and as you can see from the photo above, we enjoyed Vietnamese food at Pho Thanh Nhi. Mariko got a big bowl of pho, and I had a bowl of egg noodle soup, which was delicious! 🍜 As the wind howled outside the restaurant windows, it was perfect to enjoy a nice hot bowl of Vietnamese noodle soup!!
I hope you had a nice Saturday. Stay warm!
おやすみなさい！
– B
Recovery Day
こんばんは！Hi, how’s it going?
Today I was a zombie… I guess you could say I had a mild hangover from last night’s pie party. And the weather today was rainy and grey and I just wanted to sleep… I felt like how the cat looks in the photo above.
But we had things to do, so I soldiered through it all and helped decorate the Christmas tree, put up some lights, took Bay to get his haircut, visited the grocery store, enrolled in my work benefits programs, and then cooked dinner. Around 5 PM, when dinner was almost ready, I was just about back to feeling normal. 😄 Unfortunately, now at 10:39 PM I have a headache coming back. I need to sleep! 😴
But before that, here’s a photo of the spaghetti dinner I made for the kiddos. It turned out pretty good, I think!
おやすみなさい！
– B
