VIDEO: JAPANESE COOKIES

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VIDEO: JAPANESE ICE CREAM

VIDEO: JAPANESE SNACKS

TARAKO!

Hi!

We're back in Japan after a visit to Sweden.

Today, Per and I are going to a "family restaurant" chain called Saizeriya to eat Tarako Spaghetti.

Tarako is salted cod or alaska pollock roe.

Tarako spaghetti is spagetthi with a creamy sauce made from tarako, cream and topped with nori ① .

I've only had it once before and I LOVED IT!

When surfing the web ②, I found these commercials for instant Tarako sauce.

They made me love Tarako even more!

① Roasted seaweed

② As the cool kids call it

UPDATE!

I had two bites of the Saizeriya Tarako spaghetti. 

I did not enjoy it. The one I had before was way better.

#disappointment 

HELLO KITTY CAFÉ IN SEOUL

My husband and I went on a mini break in Seoul two weeks ago and we ended up at the Hello Kitty café.

Per is buying a souvenir mug.

 Everything is Kitty shaped and pink. EVERYTHING!

Caffe lattes and matcha lattes with Kitty.

 This is what we had: Hello Kitty strawberry mousse cake, latte and a cappuccino.

I didn't get Kitty on my cappuccino :(

 Sorry about the lighting in these last two pics, but everything was just so darn pink upstairs it was difficult to take any decent photos.

A VISIT FROM MY COUSIN

Hello!

My lovely cousin, Janette has been staying with us here in Tokyo for one wonderful week.

I thought I'd share some photos and, of course, videos of a few of the things that we've been up to.

Trying different Japanese foods, such as Taiyaki, the fish shaped pastry with red bean paste filling.

Accidentally ordered a hot, sweet strawberry milk drink thinking it was coffee at the My Melody café in Daikanyama.

Macarons at Ladurée in Ginza

We had sashimi at a nice restaurant in Ikebukuro.

(Janette thought the shrimp was awful btw)

Funny flavored ice cream.

These are the flavours we ordered: Hokkaido potato, Shark fin noodle, charcoal, wasabi, green tea, double cheese. 

Ehrm... Yum??

Wagyu hamburgers at Blacow in Ebisu.

Shibuya crossing (of course).

Tomorrow, my mother, stepdad and two sisters are coming to visit.

Can't wait!

Eating Japanese jelly

I'm trying the popular Japanese jelly with 0 calories.

Sorry about the poor video quality :(

New discovery!

Being on a low carb diet it's easy to miss bread sometimes (and flamin hot cheez cruncherz).

But! I discovered a low carb bread just now that's delicious. 

It's a bit too high in carbs for me, and it triggers my carb-cravings, but I'll definitely make room for it in the freezer for the occasional weekend breakfast treat.

Yum!

Ice cream cake

I made my husband an ice cream cake for his birthday last sunday.

It was so easy to make, and made quite the impression so I want to share the recipe with you.

Good to know.

This video is so cute!
Wish they did one on how to order a coffee in france. Still haven't gotten the hang of that.