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A 40th birthday to remember! 

A 40th birthday to remember! 

Happy Birthday, Brandon. Well, it was a few weeks ago, but you know time, life and everything else that goes into things. But I still wanted to document Brandon’s birthday on the blog! On Brandon’s birthday, which was 9/7, we had a really delicious meal 

Thanksgiving Ideas

Thanksgiving Ideas

So we are rapidly approaching Thanksgiving! This year is going by crazy fast but I’m excited to eat, give thanks and hang out with family. If you’ve been around my blog you’ve seen many Thanksgiving feasts from previous years. It’s usually the same stuff with 

Halloween Treats

Halloween Treats

Happy almost Halloween everyone! Today we have some treats to eat for a spooky fun menu. With the help of our nieces, Maleeya and Amaya we are making a few fun Halloween-themed dishes and want to wish you all a safe and Happy Halloween!

Jack-O-Lantern rice crispy treats!

This is good for little ones to help decorate and if you have older kids they can make the rice crispies on the stovetop or grownups. I also like the coloring element which if you have blue and yellow and red and yellow coloring they can play with the amounts to see how green and how orange they want their treats. If you don’t want to use food coloring you can just use the cookie cutter and cut out the shapes and decorate as you like. You can use this for any holiday and just change the cookie cutter and the decorations!

Mummy Dogs

Mummy dogs are hot dogs that are wrapped with crescent roll dough. Super simple and easy to make! You can use any kind of hot dog or sausage you like. Keep the crescent roll dough as cold as you can that will make it easier for you to roll.

1 package regular hot dogs or

Vegan/Veggie dogs

1 package crescent rolls or vegan puff pastry

1 egg scrambled for egg wash

1. open the crescent rolls or puff pastry and cut into long thin strips

2. wrap each hot dog or vegan sausage in the dough and bake on a sheet pan lined with parchment paper

3. bake at 375 for 10-15 minutes until golden brown and hotdog is cooked through.

Witches Hat Calzones

These are fun little pizza pockets (calzones).

2 packages of Crescent Rolls

1 jar Pasta sauce, any type you like

8-12 oz Shredded Mozzarella (any cheese will be fine)

Pinch of Italian seasoning

¼ cup grated parmesan cheese

1 egg, scrambled for egg wash

Optional ingredients: Pepperoni, sausage, or ham Vegetables like onions, peppers, & mushrooms

1. Pre heat the oven to 400 degrees, line a sheet pan with parchment paper

2. Unroll one package of crescent rolls, keep the triangle shape flat on a cutting board

3. Add sauce, cheese, and optional ingredients to the middle of the triangle

4. top with another triangle crescent roll and pinch the ends tight to seal, roll bottom edge up just a little bit to make the witches hat brim

5. add to the sheet pan and brush with egg

6. sprinkle Italian seasoning and parmesan cheese, repeat with rest of the rolls

7. bake for 10 minutes until golden brown. Let cool and enjoy

Spooky Eyeball Tropical Punch

1 can lychee fruit

1 basket blueberries

Sparkling water (cranberry, blueberry, mixed berry flavors work well)

Pomegranate juice (Pomegranate, cranberry, blueberry, or a combination of them work well)

Lime

1. open the can of lychee, save the juice/syrup from the can

2. take a blueberry and stick it into the opening of the lychees

3. in a cup or glass add ice and then squeeze some lime juice in

4. add the juice and lychee eyeballs

5. add the sparkling water.

Enjoy!

Happy Halloween.

Cheers

-Unrivaledkitch

Thanksgiving 2016

Thanksgiving 2016

I hope everyone enjoyed a very wonderful Thanksgiving holiday and weekend. I am so grateful that I was able to spend so much time with my family and cook this very special meal for everyone. We have so much to be thankful for with my third 

Mizumi Las Vegas, NV

Mizumi Las Vegas, NV

Las Vegas…. what a crazy, interesting, evocative, and mischievous place to visit. It’s one of my favorite places to people watch and remember why I am where I am now and not where I used to be. Brandon’s grandparents, aunt, uncle and cousin live in 

Maleeya’s 2nd Birthday

Maleeya’s 2nd Birthday

My niece just recently turned two on Monday, April 8th. I can’t believe she’s already two! It really goes by fast and I know that’s a very cliché thing to say, but it does. It feels like just yesterday that my sister told me she was having a baby and now Maleeya is just so adventurous, ambitious and remarkable. She truly is an amazing little girl and I feel so fortunate to be able to see her every day and watch her little spirit grow.

Happy Birthday, Monkey! Auntie loves you very much.

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So for Maleeya’s birthday we had everyone over to Encino Park for some food, of course, and lots of other fun things for the kids and plenty of catching up for the adults. Some of my sister’s friends brought their little children and we were able to get a little kids yoga session to happen while the adults watched. I’m so grateful to the little ones who decided to participate, even with everyone watching. It’s amazing how fearless young children are. So we had yoga, party favors, a huge Minnie Mouse piñata, cake and lots of food.

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The menu this year was more manageable with my current work load and shortage of time, but still delicious and fun. I’m so glad I got to cook for over 50 of our closest family and friends. I’m so grateful for all the support everyone has shown me through my yoga and my cooking. I’m truly living a dream I could only have actualized with all of your help. Thank you!

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Menu

Homemade Balsamic Cumin Barbeque Sauce Chicken

Rainbow Pasta Salad with Red Wine Vinaigrette, Italian Herbs, Black Olives, Broccoli, Tomatoes and Roasted Peppers

Cobb Salad with Hard boiled Egg, Crispy Bacon, Roasted Garlic Turkey, Tomatoes, Avocado and Blue Cheese over Baby Mixed Greens and Balsamic Vinaigrette

Roasted Vegetable Platter

Fruit Platters

My mom prepared our grandma’s special macaroni salad and potato salad, as well as Bachan’s triple-layered Jell-O, which are all family traditions at any event. My boyfriend made delicious pork sliders with jalapeno coleslaw—needless to say, everyone loved them.

We had such a great time celebrating my beautiful niece, Maleeya! I can’t wait for next year. 🙂

These gorgeous photos are courtesy of the wonderful and talented Lyz Cooper, Brandon’s mom is an amazing photographer! Thanks Lyz for capturing such special memories for out family.

cheers

-Unrivaledkitch

Mammoth Lakes 2012

Mammoth Lakes 2012

Mammoth Lakes is a place I never tire from visiting. Throughout my life the anticipation of returning to this majestic platform of nature’s daily miracle always carries me through to another year. For as long as I can remember, my dad has visited Mammoth at 

The simple pleasures of the eastern sierras; Mammoth Lakes, CA.

The simple pleasures of the eastern sierras; Mammoth Lakes, CA.

As a young girl, and even now in my twenties, I looked forward to our family vacations in the summer all year long. Three pretty rough, very close in age, small kids: my sister, brother, and I, crammed in the back of a car together 

Maleeya, Welcome home Feast, and Nothing Bundt Cakes

Maleeya, Welcome home Feast, and Nothing Bundt Cakes

My baby niece Maleeya  was born 4/8/11 at 810pm at Kaiser Woodland hills. She is 19.5 inches, 7.2 lb

My sister gave birth naturally and was in labor for over 19 hours, honestly child birth is one of the most traumatic experiences I’ve ever witness and I wasn’t even watching the whole time because I couldn’t it was terrible. Every baby maker out there I put my hat off to you cause there’s no way I could do that.

Maleeya is a precious gift, she’s so beautiful and the Fujitaki family and Mickelson family are so proud and happy to have a healthy baby addition to the family.

Maleeya came home today and we had family and friends over to welcome her. Of course I couldn’t resist making a little welcome home feast for my beautiful niece even though she couldn’t eat it.

I threw together some things that my sister and family would like from what was left in the fridge.

Menu

Chicken Katsu, Spam Musubi, Sweet Sesame Miso dressing Salad  with carrots and tomatoes, Fried tofu, tofu with black goma and bonito flakes, macaroni salad, Inari, Mixed vegetable curry and rice

My brother and my sister in law bought some mini bundt cakes from nothing bundt cakes

These cakes are lovely. they really do melt in your mouth. I had the lemon one and it was really yummy, very moist and the sweetness in the frosting is not overwhelming. So if your around one of the shops i’d say to give them a try, something different than the conventional cupcake.


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A tasting… of DineLA

A tasting… of DineLA

A tasting… of DineLA Just a little reminder to all the Los Angeles Foodies out there Please enjoy LA with a tasting menu. DineLA picture property of DINELA website. I love tasting menu’s… I even more so loved making tasting menus for people. That was