Category: Weekly Wanderings

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Send help.

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Kappa maki (cucumber roll)! (That was supposed to be a square… ????) ##tiktokcooks ##cookingtiktok ##sushi ##foodfam

? Ice Dance (From “Edward Scissorhands”) – Ashton Gleckman

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I decided to get back to my sushi roots, and start posting sushi every day! My first few were total trash, BUT I’m finally trying to learn how to do kazari sushi – the sushi with the cool shapes and designs.

We’re getting there.

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It was supposed to be a triangle. #tiktokcooks #cookingtiktok #sushi #foodfam

? Put Your Records On – Ritt Momney

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I’m still cooking for YouTube though!

And came across the coolest bell pepper while I was prepping for an upcoming video.

A friend “challenged” me to post a fridge photo.

Look how neat my fridge is!

Juuuuust kidding it’s a total mess.

More sushi! The designs are starting to not be (quite as) terrible.

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when you eff up the sushi but at least it still tastes good #tiktokcooks #cookingtiktok #sushi #foodfam

? Blue Blood – Heinz Kiessling

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Monster bars! While I’m not going to do a separate blog post for every sushi video, I AM planning on writing posts for any recipe videos I do.

My apologies in advance, blog overload coming.

We’ve graduated from cucumber to tamago!

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tamago! #tiktokfood #sushi #ShowUpShowOff

? Blade Runner 2049 – Synthwave Goose

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This is such a quick and dirty tamago recipe. One of these days I’ll develop/film a real, more precise recipe… but this is just showing how I make tamago at home when I’m making it for filming.

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how to make tamago #HappyHalloween #tiktokfood #tamago #tamagoyaki

? HOT & SPICY SALSA – Jaycee Mante

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LOOK HOW COOL THIS ONE IS.

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still sloppy, but having fun playing with shapes! #tiktokfood #tamago #sushi #showupshowoff

? Coffee for Your Head – Vinyll

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Lots more sushi (and other food) to come!

If you’re on TikTok, let me know!

What do you think… should my weekly sushi dump be a part of Weekly Wanderings, or should it get its own blog post?

It’s so weird to look back and realize my birthday was only a week ago?!

It feels like it’s been a month.

We don’t usually do much for birthdays around here, but I was feeling a little sad that the normal minor stuff is off the table this year – you know how it is.

So Son made me instant ramen (with a hard boiled egg that happened to be in the fridge, imitation crab, and nori). It’s the little things.

Our thai basil is flowering. Gardening video coming up soon!

Birthday WoW and a pistachio cupcake my mom made me! It was so fluffy and so delicious.

Son wanted to have a candle for my birthday pudding, but we couldn’t find any around the house (aside from a couple of tea candles). I texted my mom, and she responded, “let’s facetime so you can pick which ones you want…”

Turns out she has an entire shoebox filled with every single birthday candle she ever got since I was a baby, so there were OPTIONS.

I picked these rainbow polka dot ones. I’m never gonna have to buy candles again.

Birthday dinner! Instead of presents, my mom cooks for us. Normally we ask for cake, but this year (since I was already planning on making something sweet) I asked her to make my grandma’s teriyaki chicken recipe.

This is my happy place.

Surprise cake showed up at our door!

Son’s brother’s girlfriend ordered cake to be delivered from a local bakery.

It’s our local neighborhood gargoyle.

Treeshroom.

It’s been super gloomy all week. Fall is finally here!

It smelled like rain. But alas, only a few overnight sprinkles.

Found the grass’ ass.

Pita chips!

This was *supposed* to be a picture of brussels sprouts.

It was maybe a little dark in the kitchen.

I’m entirely losing track of what day it is, we’ve just been going going going with filming and such… hence the late post.

Hope you have a good week… and don’t forget to vote if you’re in the US and able to!

As you saw, we attempted bread last week! And then had a lot of bread to eat, so we just had to eat it Vietnamese breakfast-style at least once.

French bread, fried, egg, maggi sauce. We skipped the coffee this time, but I’d typically (happily) eat this with a nice strong ca phe sua da on the side!

Also made my typical breakfast sandwich – sausage, frico eggs, arugula.

Experimenting with boba.

My balls were too big.

Early birthday cake from my mom! Pistachio cupcakes, and white cake layered with strawberry jam and topped with chocolate ganache.

Something tasty is coming up in a couple of days…

Another spookily delicious thing that’ll be going up later this week!

Lots more mystery tomatoes.

Have a lovely week, everybody! We’re finally past our latest heatwave (and it’s my birthday this week!!!) so I’m looking forward to this week!

Hope everyone’s having a lovely October!

We’ve been doing better at getting out for a walk every day, even if it’s just a short walk before sunset.

Found the end.

And some pretty little flowers.

The fanciest fire hydrant.

Samples for tasting time! Note how I made sure each piece got a good bit of bacon.

When Shrimpy noted that we accidentally burnt some fries…

he wasn’t kidding.

My brother REALLY likes Oreos, so when I saw this… I just had to get it for his birthday.

Haven’t made it yet, but I’m going to do the silliest Sushi Labs ever for it…

I’ve been reflecting upon how I always say I want to dance… but never do.

So I’m making myself come up with prompts and post daily dance improv.

It scares the heck out of me, but I always say you have to make shitty art before you can make good art, so I’m following my own advice.

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Just show up. Don’t worry about the perfect outfit. Or having your hair and makeup and nails done. Don’t hold yourself back because your body isn’t perfect, you’re not strong or flexible enough, you haven’t put together the perfect choreography. Nobody’s gonna judge you because nobody’s paying attention anyways. And if you want something, you’ll never get it if you never start. So just show up. ~~~~~ Thinking of putting together daily dance prompts to force myself to dance as much as I wish I would. Does anyone else want to play along? Today’s prompt: just show up #dance #dancer #balletaday #danceeveryday #danceeverydamnday #danceimprov

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Saw this fellow hanging out in a tree.

Day 2. It’ll be a while before I actually like the stuff I’m posting… but I’m sharing it anyways.

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Today’s prompt: Stuck (I discovered it’s very difficult to be “stuck” with socks on ?) Gotta work on my “I’m staring at myself in the mirror right now” face ? Shifting away from perfectionism. I don’t 100% love how this came out but I had a lot of fun working on it, and the rule is that I gotta do it every day… so here it is. #dance #balletaday #danceeveryday #danceeverydamnday #hapa #hapagirl #danceimprov #dancer

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[SPOILER ALERT]

It’s the best feeling when a random idea turns out REALLY REALLY GOOD.

You’re gonna want to see tomorrow’s post!

Getting baked.

Fresh-baked bread exists to be a tasty delivery mechanism for good butter.

BREAD!!!

Day 3: OH MY GOD I’M SO SORE

I just wanted to lay on the ground and call it art.

Instead… I laid on a chair and called it art.

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“Tired” by which I mean I’m so sore from working on yesterday’s dance that I almost just laid on the floor and called it art. ? but hey – day 3 and I’m still at it! ? ?: “Dreams of Light” by @jacob_pavek #dance #dancer #dancersofinstagram #danceeveryday #danceeverydamnday #balletaday

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Plenty of good food (and questionable dancing) coming up! Hope you all have a lovely week! I need a nap…

This week has pretty much been dedicated to mooncakes.

Cooking mooncakes…

Editing mooncake videos…

Eating mooncakes!

Snail on a wall.

Been eating lots of poutine. Not mad.

I’m gonna have to make the cheese curds again soon so OH DARN MORE POUTINE.

Breakfast sandwich!

We’re really enjoying Going Under, and we’ve been playing it a lot on breaks. It’s such a fun game!

Green chili cheese sausage, pickled mustard greens, mayo, sourdough bread.

Still beading, a little each day.

Any guesses what this is going to be?

Mooncakes!

Green goddess sandwich. Sourdough, green goddess spread, vegan cheese, cucumbers, avocado, sprouts.

Glad to finally be done with mooncakes tomorrow. I love them, but they kind of took over my life.

Hope you have a lovely week!

What is time anymore?

It’s been A Week of filming, filming, and more filming.

The beginning of the week was still smoky, but in the last couple of days it finally cleared up. I can go outside again!

Been in a breakfast sandwich kinda mood lately.

This was bacon (left over from the okonomiyaki video), frico egg, and watercress on a roll.

Due to all the smoke keeping me from getting outside lately, I’ve been having some SERIOUS anxiety + insomnia (this ended up being oddly relevant).

On one of the worst days, I gave up on sleep and just cleaned. Finally packed up a bunch of glasses and mugs that I got when my grandma passed away, but I mostly don’t use, so sticking them in storage for the time being.

Noticed this cool pattern on one of the mugs.

IT’S MOONCAKE SEASON!!!!!

99 Ranch was giving away free mooncakes if you order $120 worth of groceries shipped, so YOU KNOW I made sure to hit that limit.

The lotus seed salted egg yolk mooncakes were so good.

I rarely ever take selfies, mostly because I’m REALLY BAD at them and I always hate how I look in them.

But on a whim, I took a selfie when I laid down in-between shots, while I was waiting for Son to do something.

And lo and behold I actually managed to take a good selfie. It’s a miracle!

I have a problem and it is my addiction to these salted egg potato chips.

Experiments.

It’s taken YEARS, but I love that I’m finally confident enough in the kitchen that I can just whip up a recipe on a whim.

I did it twice this week!

The above do chua (vietnamese pickles) were because we found a bag of frozen eggrolls that Son’s mom had made for us around New Year’s!

I managed to somehow not cook anything dinner appropriate this week… so the eggrolls were perfect.

More breakfast sandwich goodness.

English muffin, sausage, frico egg, and arugula.

Prep…

(From bottom: lotus seed paste, mung bean paste, azuki bean paste, and pandan mung bean paste!)

It’s a do chua type of week, it seems. My sis in law’s mom made some with mustard greens, and gave us a whole jar!

Can’t test out cheese curds (oops – spoiler alert!) without turning it into poutine!

Freezer fries, homemade cheese curds, and the second of my spontaneous cooking adventures – gravy!

More recipe testing – this is something you’ll be seeing later this week!

One thing I never expected from switching from Twitch to YouTube – SO many more people make the recipes I post!

Twitch streamers, Instagram friends, random strangers… even my mom (who NEVER watched my Twitch stream as far as I know) has cooked something from my YouTube channel!

It makes me so freaking happy every time I see it.

OH HEY MOONCAKE SEASON

Mooncake messes!

It’s a freaking factory in here.

Have a lovely week everybody… and get your hands on some mooncakes – the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival is only a week and a half away!

This week was a weird one.

It started out so hot that even in a dark room inside the house, chocolate was melting. (I had to take the laptop and escape to a cooler part of the house!)

And then it got so terribly smoky outside that the temperatures cooled way down. Love the cooler temps, hate that we *still* can’t go outside. Grateful that it’s not nearly as bad in SoCal as it is in NorCal or the PNW, though.

We played with kombu…

And brought out Son’s new toy!

I decided it was time to finally make use of this gorgeous knife my aunt gifted me years ago.

And I became bffs with our little portable AC. There was one tolerable room.

Somewhere between the heat and smoke, we found a few minutes where it wasn’t terrible out.

Rice, kombu tsukudani, and sardines. A tasty, very Japanese meal.

The problem with using flour on a black table…

Guess what’s coming up tomorrow!

We are a very cute couple why do you ask.

FIG THIEF!

I stocked up at 99 Ranch

This splatter screen is my new favorite.

Breakfast. Roll with bacon, frico egg, and watercress. And I didn’t even realize, today’s International Bacon Day!

Crack patterns.

GUESS WHAT TIME IT IS!!! (And guess what we’re gonna be making this week for upcoming videos!)

Have a lovely week, hopefully everyone’s able to stay safe from… everything.

Been doing a slightly better job of getting out of the house this week.

Found a dino next to last week’s llama.

I have our whole filming schedule planned out…

And then shishito peppers were available from Imperfect Foods (that’s an affiliate link – we’ll both get $10 off if you use it!) and I couldn’t NOT get shishito peppers because I love them so much.

And then of course I had to make something for our channel BUT when am I going to fit it into my tight schedule…

So they’re going up like a month from now.

They were tasty though.

Outdoors! Again!

What is this madness, leaving the house twice in a week.

Canned corn beef hash breakfast for dinner.

It’s a treat.

BOBAAAAAAA

Son was like, “today’s coconut day!”

And I said, “YOU KNOW WHAT’S MADE WITH COCONUT MILK?!“

I’m not ashamed of using silly food holidays as an excuse for tasty things.

Guess what’s going up tomorrow?

Testing out recipes to reduce waste.

We’d planned to film this today but it’s HOT so we’ll film it whenever it’s not freaking 100F outside.

Did I mention we have no AC?

Went for a drive. Gotta keep that car battery charged up.

Regrowing bok choy and it’s going absolutely nuts.

Mom made an ice cream cake with homemade ice cream.

We exchanged a container of that ice cream we made above for a slice of the cake.

IT WAS A GOOD TRADE (for everyone involved!)

Show me your freezer pics! Is yours as much of a mess as mine is?

I’m currently melting and putting off any sort of filming because MY GOSH it is so hot in our house right now.

Hope everyone’s having a lovely weekend!

We actually left the house this week!

We went for one (1) short walk and found a llama.

Still dancin’, still rehearsing to eventually give you some Just Dance videos!

I KNOW everyone says don’t start a 3rd YT channel.

But.

I can’t help myself. I just really prefer having separation of content, EVEN if it’s a terrible idea for growth.

Also my programmer side is laughing at this obvious test filler content.

We got a new light! It’s tiny and cute and won’t kill me if it falls on me.

PSA: go drive your car so the battery doesn’t die

… again.

We were only a couple days late… and ded.

This isn’t an everyday thing, but breakfast sandwiches make the day feel a little special. Made them twice this week!

My brain got stuck on the idea of wanting to make beaded jewelry.

And came up with a bunch of ideas I can’t get out of my head.

So.

It’s a mess, but I made my first earring! If I’m lucky, I’ll get earring #2 done before we start recording Halloween videos.

Have a lovely week, everybody!