flippin' bacon

What flips your bacon? After using cooking chopsticks for forever, I forgot that I used to utilize tongs. How do you turn yours?

In other news, I'm SO excited to start baking again: we bought an oven! I think one of the first new recipes I'll try is this Paleo pie crust from Elana's Pantry. It just sounds so good to me right now.

matcha butter

Oooooh, yeah: Mrs. Yasue's homegrown strawberries made into her homemade jam, and matcha butter made by moi. All slathered on rice-flour bread rolls that I can buy frozen from a local restaurant. To make matcha butter, just soften some unsalted butter and blend in some sifted matcha powder. (Idea from the cookbook New Tastes in Green Tea by Mutsuko Tokunaga.)