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I've always been one of those annoying people who—while not terribly adventurous with new foods—can eat almost anything while traveling, and never get sick…until suddenly I wasn't.

I’ve always been one of those annoying people who—while not terribly adventurous with new foods—can eat almost anything while traveling, and never get sick…until I suddenly wasn’t. ❤︎ My trip to Israel last month began with the usual jet lag and out-of-sync eating schedule, but I seemed to find my rhythm quicker than usual, and I was excited for the next couple weeks of my honest-to-gawds…

this isn't about cooking at all, and there are no recipes here, except one for depression…

❤︎ I haven’t watered the balcony garden in over a week. There are things that need to be done, they just keep happening, but other things must fall by the wayside in order for the appearance of forward motion to continue. I’m glad it’s rainy season, and I hope my plants are surviving the combination of hot days and sometimes drizzling, sometimes dumping rain, but I can’t bring myself to open…

i'm a huge fan of custards & egg tarts of all kind, so I'm always happy to see this little number pop up on store shelves when it's "in season"…

I’m an enormous fan of egg tarts & baked custards of all kind, so I’m always happy to see this little number pop up on store shelves when it’s “in season”…❤︎ ❤︎ Though I’ll be the first to tell absolutely-no-one-who-cares about my unquenchable, long-running true love of Hong Kong egg tarts, they are sadly a bit difficult to come by where I live…and even more so if you rarely leave the house. I…

time for hospital food for the foreseeable future…see you on the other side!​ ❤︎

❤︎ I checked into the hospital this morning for knee replacement surgery tomorrow, and I should optimistically expect to be in the hospital for 10 to 14 days. I queued up some stories to write and recipes to post if I have the mental fortitude, but I’d expect more hospital food shitposting than anything else…if my post anesthesia brain even coöperates with that! See you on the other side! ~…

❤︎ Most days, I take it upon myself to make Mr. Scout some toast for breakfast, as he isn’t usually hungry in the morning, and he’s one of those people who would forget to eat otherwise. I am not one of those people. I have literally never forgotten to eat! I always wake up later than him, after he has already started work, so I try to sneak in some sustenance between meetings, and then throw…

It’s getting a little older, but my refrigerator remains one of the top two appliances in my apartment!❤︎ I moved into my apartment (which I affectionately call either The Rectangle or The Menagerie) just over ten years ago. And while it is a small apartment by most standards, it was so much bigger than the ridiculously tiny apartment I had first moved to in Japan. So much so that when I moved…

❤︎ I think the most important part of making breakfast and lunch every day is preparing something you really want to eat. It doesn’t always have to be made from scratch…it just needs to be yummy and on time!

it was a hell of a day at the hospital today...tell me something you cooked recently? anything?

I planned to make a small post today, leading up to a larger post this weekend—as I’ve gotten in the habit of doing on Wednesdays—but it was a hell of a day at the hospital today…my back is in pain, my brain is swimming, my head is pounding, and I’m practically in tears thinking of how I have to do it again in three weeks. Tell me something you cooked recently? Anything at all…and how was it?

(Not that I’m actually reviewing grocery stores, mind you, but you never know what I’ll get up to!) Sometimes when I’m feeling fancy, I’ll come home heavy with bags, but low on cash…today my knee hurt. Once a month, when I have to go to one of my many clinic appointments, I visit a Meidi-Ya import grocery nearby. These days, chronic pain and a fairly debilitating panic disorder usually mean…

The dishes never stop coming…but at least they're cute? ⊂((・x・))⊃

…but at least they’re cute? Every night as I’m getting ready for bed, after doing piles & piles of dishes all day, I always seem to find more in the sink…