the mighty koze
Monday, October 31, 2011
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
Hello Fall + Summer Recap in photos
camping and the beach
camping buddies |
loving the beach |
first surf lesson |
bread on a stick |
Driving
beautiful Portland bridge sunset |
Berry pickin' |
We love strawberries |
taking a rest |
strawberry shortcake |
farmers market
Koze + Ana = Partners in Crime |
learning how to cook |
farmers market french toast |
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Dashpoint State Park
We paid a little visit to Dashpoint State Park this afternoon. I used to come here as a kid and it was strange and amazing to see Koze playing there. I forgot how much fun there is to be had there - tons of shells, sand-dollars, crabs, seaweed, drift wood...we built a little sandcastle and dug for clams. A wonderful start to this long weekend.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Independence Day 2011
We spent this fourth of July with my mom and her family in DesMoines, WA. To start we played on the shore of the Puget Sound. Beautiful weather. Beautiful little boy. |
throwing rocks - favorite activity of the day |
and the fireworks... |
we watched them from the porch at a friend's house and could see the shows of Tacoma, Vashon Island and DesMoines. As usual, Vashon's were by FAR the best display. |
Koze maintained this pose through out almost the entire show. And afterwards he begged for more. "Me, me" while using sign language for more. |
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Cold Soba Noodles - the simple version
With the weather finally warming up I have been craving one of my favorite summer-time foods - Cold soba noodles. My favorite thing about making this dish, apart from how tasty it is, is that it is one of the few ways I can get Koze to eat nori (dried seaweed). Seaweed contains sodium alginate and iodine, which acts as a sort of shield from the harmful effects of radiation. Goooood stuff to include in your diet these days! There are SO many different ways you can make this...Here's what we did tonight:
Ingredients: tsuyu sauce, soba (buckwheat) noodles, toasted sesame seeds, finely cut nori seaweed. You should be able to find all of these ingredients at any asian market. Uwajimaya is great if you live in Seattle or Portland...I could seriously spend hours wandering the aisles of Uwajimaya.
Tsuyu Sauce (concentrated). Use two parts water to one part sauce. |
Soba (Buckwheat) Noodles |
Boil some water |
toss the noodles in...cook for about 10min |
strain noodles and rinse with cold water for 2-3minutes or until noodles have cooled |
get some bowls out. I got these for my mom for her birthday this year from anthropologie. They are little measuring cups and were the perfect size for this late night snack. |
scoop the cold noodles into your bowls |
you can buy nori already cut but we only had the full sheets so we cut it up ourselves. |
mmmm...sesame seeds! |
the finished product. |
Oishii! (おいしい) |
itadakimasu (いただきます) - Let's Eat! |
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