Aloe Vera juice for Acid Reflex

My husband has acid reflex though he has mild one so that he doesn't have to take medicine. He would feel his stomach doesn't feel right after eating certain food like oatmeal, bagel and steak. Because it only happens sometimes, he didn't bother to go see a doctor and  didn't even know what it was until when he had choking sensation while he had dinner with his friends. He felt his food doesn't go down to the stomach and just stuck in the middle of the road then bubble started coming out from his mouth. after he spit out the form he felt better.

His friend saw him and said. "You have acid reflex!"

You see a lots of commercial on TV for medicine for acid reflex like Tums, Zantac, Prirosec.. Seems like a lot of Americans suffer from this condition. Coming from Japan I would get heartburn just seeing those greasy burgers on commercials.

My husband knows a friend who also suffered from acid reflex worse than his and he feels much better after taking aloe vera juice everyday. My husband started taking this George's Aloe Vera Aloe Vera Liquid about 1.75 fl oz (about 50 ml) once or twice a day, once in the morning and sometimes at night too, and his acid reflex got much better and doesn't happen after eating oatmeal or bagel anymore!

how I use my iPhone

I have been using iPhone (3!) since summer of 2011. I don't have an expensive media plan so I use wifi at my house or wherever free wifi is available.

I use the camera & video a lot. It's so nice that you can take pictures  & videos of my kids and send e-mail to grandpa and grandma.

One of the things I do with my phone is keeping track of dinner using notes. I cook almost every day.  It's nice to write down that info so that I don't cook the same thing twice in a week and it's  good brain training.

Soon I will be eligible for the new phone.  I can't wait to get iPhone 4 or 5!

I bought a new vacuum and it works great!

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 spot on the Saturday. I got the vacuum with tax, $98.00 I am so glad that I saved $20 from one week ago.

I didn't use it until my husband got home because I was kind of feeling ill, but I couldn't believe how much dust this vacuum got after just one time use. The dust filled up almost half of the dust container! Ewww. We were living among the dust? No wonder my asthma was bad!

In Feng Shui, it is very important to clean your house. I hope my luck will be better this year.

My little garden

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!

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!

Bread Machine is awesome!

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, size: M, crust: light and press start.  In 4 hours on regular, or 2 hours on fast setting,  you can have a warm fresh loaf of bread!

You can set a timer and wake up with good smell of bread, but it is noisy so don't sleep in a same room as this machine. 

My only regret is not spending $20 more to get a machine with a raisin dispenser.