juice & snacks

In the past month that Ian and I have been married and living together, I’ve been trying to be the good wife and cook dinner as often as I can. For me it’s not just my old fashioned wifely duty, but it’s really something I enjoy doing because it helps me to unwind and relax as well as it helps support our efforts to save money and live healthy lives.

In the beginning it was really hard because I didn’t have any idea of proportions and would always cook too much even if we took leftovers the next day to work. I also had trouble using up all the produce we bought before it went bad. Over the past couple weeks I’ve gotten a little bit more used to realistic proportions and have done a better job at cross using the produce for different recipes so that nothing will spoil, but it’s still a work in progress.

Since as many know Ian is not a fan of cheese and he doesn’t care for pasta either so it’s been a challenge to find quick and easy recipes that will please us both, but with the help of Harumi’s Japanese Home Cooking, Japanese Women Don’t Get Old or Fat, and foodnetwork.com, I haven’t done too bad even if I do say so myself.

A super easy but delicious dessert that we’ve discovered is this sweet apple pancake recipe. I’m sure the ice cream we put on top doesn’t hurt,  but it’s good all the same.