Good bye Cable TV!

We canceled our Cable TV from Time Warner Cable (Now called Spectrum) a month ago.

We were paying about $160 a month for Internet, Cable TV with HD Recorder, and home phone (which we didn't even use)

My husband watch some basket ball games and some racing and I used to record Japanese news show that airs in the morning, but otherwise, we would watch Netflix or Amazon Prime TV for kids show.

One month after cutting off cable TV, My husband (who watches TV the most) doesn't seem like bothered by not having Cable TV. I guess there's lots of options in this digital world.

I don't miss Japanese TV show since I can read yahoo news in Japanese. Its better for me that I don't  have to waste an hour to watch it.

We only pay for the internet and saved about $100 a month.

Honestly, there were hundreds of channels on the cable but I didn't find shows that I was interested.

In Japan, there are 6 major channels and not many people subscribe to Cable TV, we would use HD recorder to record shows and I wish there's something similar in here too. (for the antenna TVs) There might be one but I don't have knowledge or energy to research.




I watch lots of shows from Netflix.



Good old TV Antenna.

Slow Cooker Season!

Working at night, kid's sports practice at night.. Busy parent's great helper, "Slow Cooker".

When I was little, I read Ramona's series and that appeared every now and then. Slow cooker isn't used very much in Japan, even though almost every household own a rice cooker.  Anyway,  I have been pretty busy because I started doing waitressing at night few nights a week and I have been using slow cooker quite often lately.

I made beef stew,

I forgot to get red wine so I used sake. beef taco meat,

pulled back pork,

baby back pork ribs,

shoulder pork ribs

etc..

One time, somehow the glass lid broke but I carefully removed the lid and no glass was in there (Thank god) since then, I'm using other stainless lid from other pot I have.

Even the cheap hard beef or pork will be tender and delicious!

Pizza made easy with home bakery!

Home bakery can make pizza dough. My  Panasonic Home Bakery came with a recipe book, but the measuring is confusing. Do you know how much is 1 & 7/16 cup? I found somebody posted a question on yahoo answer, I bet she has the same recipe. I found more easy recipe for a pizza dough.

one large pizza dough recipe

Bread Flour : 280g
Olive Oil : 1 table spoon
Salt : 1 tea spoon
Sugar : 1 table Spoon
Dry Yeast : 1 tea spoon
Water : 150 cc

Set machine and dough will be done in 45 minutes. 

Raisin Bread

I baked a raisin bread today. The picture above is from a few month ago. I have Panasonic SD-YD250, somehow, this machine bakes too much if I waited till it finishes. I take bread out about 20 minutes before it ends so that crust is softer and raisin doesn't get burned.

I use Japanese recipe site, cookpad they have great recipes!