Eating, Meeting, Mighty, Money

We had a 5 year old vacuum cleaner but it didn't clean very well. On new years day, my husband tried to fix it and totally broke it. We needed a new one. I always wanted a Dyson vacuum cleaner but thats way beyond our budget (usually over $400.) On one Sunday at Macy's, we saw a Bissell vacuum and my husband says this is the same vacuum as the one he  sometimes uses at work and it works great and easy to toss the dust and clean the filter. I thought it does looks similar to Dyson. I wanted a small canister style but if vacuum works great, why not? The price was $109. On the Friday morning, I was browsing newspaper (we only subscribe Thurs to Sun) I saw a Macy's morning sale ad and the sale was between 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM on Fri and Sat only. I had a cold and I totally lost my voice on that day, but I determined to get one and I did with my 18 month girl! The vacuum was heavy and my girl was being good girl. I could park nice spot. I don't think I could park this good s...

I have a tiny garden at my new apartment. I planted some flowers and vegetable plants. Mint. I made some tea with this. This herb is very strong and grow well. I'll dry them when it grows more. Aloe can be used when you have minor burns and cuts. It's still small but I planted red perilla (called Shiso in Japanese ) next to aloe. Mini tomato.  has some fruits already! I can't wait!

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. 

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!

I got a bread machine two months ago. I'm baking bread about every other day, and it tastes great! I used to get bread from Japanese bakery every now and then because their bread is really good, but because the flour price has been shooting up in recent years, the price of the loaf of bread raised to $3.60 from $2.60 in just 5 years! I did some calculation : If I get two loaf of bread every week, in a year it comes up $187.00 I got Panasonic SD-YD250 Automatic Bread Maker which was about $135.00, I might spend more than $187 with ingredients in the first year, but from the second year, it will cost less than buying at the bakery, and it is easier than I thought to bake a bread. My recipe for the tasty bread is like this: Bread Flour : 250 g Non fat dry milk : 20g Brown sugar : 20g Sea salt : 3g Butter : 15g Water : 170cc Dry yeast : 1 tea spoon Put all the ingredients except for dry yeast in the bucket. Put dry yeast in the yeast dispenser and set the machine to Bake, ...

Long time ago while "Heian period" (between AD794 to AD1192) in Japan, a woman worked at　the palace bought a lucky dream from her friend. "I had such a nice dream last night." "What was it like?" "I saw a beautiful big full moon, and it mirrored on a lake." A woman heard that story offered exchange that dream to a beautiful comb. Later, the woman bought that moon dream got married to a very noble and rich guy and married happily ever after. When I was about 13, I bought my brother's dream. "Hey, I have a dream to sell you." "What is it?" I don't exactly remember his dream, that was an exciting dream. There were some famous politician in cast, and sounds fun. I don't exactly remember what I gave for it, may be a knickknack. I don't know if it was a lucky dream or not, so far, I don't know if I'm lucky or not.

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