Happy Friday!

Happy Friday, everyone! This week, we felt an earthquake (that was scary!) and now, hurricane Irene is coming this weekend… All of a sudden, NY is getting hit by a natural disaster… I hope it’ll be all okay…

I just wanted to end the week with some fun photos from my trip to the Cape Cod. Enjoy!

We saw the bunny almost everyday.

The Lobster Trap Co. — this restaurant / fish market is the best!

We got a couple lobsters for dinner…

Randy cooked his first lobsters — it was delicious!

Provincetown!

Our little Pocasset Beach:

Fresh shrimp cocktails (from The Lobster Trap Co.)

Grilling clams and such…

We had many visitors throughout our stay including our family, too :)

Have a safe weekend, everyone! We are going to attend a wedding tonight at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden and we have some baby classes to attend tomorrow… (due to the Hurricane Irene and subway is not working this weekend, we have rescheduled it) getting busy around here!

Happy Mother’s Day!!

Happy Happy Mother’s Day for all the hardworking moms out there!! And my special thank you to my mom and my mom-in-law!! You are my inspiration and thank you so much for all you do. We love you!!! xoxo Hijiri

p.s The photo is cute little yellow flowers Randy got me few days ago. It’s always so nice to have flowers around home, makes me happy :) And I finally started using Instagram (this photo is also via Instagram) and am loving it! If you also use it, please note my user name: heartfishpress Hope to see you there, too!

Basic Japanese Cooking

I received this cool Japanese cooking book along with many other nice things including a brand-new rice cooker (!) on Christmas from my parents-in-law (thank you so much!!) and I had to share because not only this book tells you how to cook all sorts of great Japanese meals, but also, the photography of the book is really beautiful. Just flipping through the book to see each page is like a treat for your eye!

Here are some pages… aren’t they pretty?

basic japanese cooking

basic japanese cooking

basic japanese cooking

basic japanese cooking

basic japanese cooking

basic japanese cooking

We are having a small dinner party this weekend and making some Japanese hot pot, plus we are thinking of cooking some of the appetizers or salads from this book :)

Happy Friday, everyone! and Happy Weekend!

Today’s Bridge 1.3.11

I meant to post these photos 2 days ago… The first “Today’s Bridge” of the year!

Brooklyn Bridge from Washington Street:

Manhattan Bridge also from Washington Street:

May Today’s Bridge in 2011 be even more awesome… :)