Story of a Family doing JET

Daily life as a family of four

  • Home
  • Blog
  • Living Gluten-free in Japan
  • Photo Gallery
  • GF Grocery Items
  • About
  • Bienvenue
  • Blogue en français
  • Gallerie

cooking

Gardening, Grief and Beets

November 25, 2018 by jetwife Leave a Comment

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom Rumi Last week, I received a message from my brother that my grandmother had passed away. He had told me during the previous weeks how … [Read more…]

Posted in: Living abroad, Reflection Tagged: baking, beets, cooking, garden, grief, mourning

A Year Later – How Moving to Japan Changed my Habits

September 1, 2018 by jetwife Leave a Comment

A friend recently asked me how Japan had changed me. A move like this definitely have an effect on you and your family. Some of those are a side effect of the shock, others come from your contact with the different culture. I had to think for a while before writing this article because changes … [Read more…]

Posted in: Living abroad, Reflection Tagged: cooking, daily life, dress, habits, Japan, juice, milk, minimalist, preparing, season, season weather, suito, tea, water, water bottle, weather

そぼろ丼- Soboro Bowl – Japanese Recipe (GF)

April 28, 2018 by jetwife Leave a Comment

Since my neighbor shares a lot of recipes, I thought I would share with you the ones I have been making lately. Here’s the recipe for Soboro bowl (そぼろ丼 -Soboro Don) I received from my neighbor. Ingredients: For the chicken: 1lbs of ground chicken 4 Tbs Of gluten free soy sauce (or regular if you … [Read more…]

Posted in: Food Shopping, Gluten-free living, Japanese Recipe Tagged: beans, chicken, cooking, delicious, eggs, green, mirin, peas, recipe, rice, sake, simple, sugar

How to organize a successful Cultural Exchange Activity

April 13, 2018 by jetwife Leave a Comment

When my in-laws decided they would visit in April, my husband decided to organize a cultural exchange activity with his student. Since it was spring break, he planned to have a few hours long activity with his school’s English club. Here’s some tips to organize a similar event at your own school and what we … [Read more…]

Posted in: School and Education, Sharing Traditions Tagged: cooking, culture, curry, delicious, English, exchange, Food, Japanese, Je, judo, presentations, pudding, School

The Cheesy 30

January 6, 2018 by jetwife Leave a Comment

Like every year, I struggled to decided what I wanted to eat for my birthday. My in-laws are great cooks and, every year, they ask me what they can cook for me. The thing is, this year, I don’t have them around, but I still need to figure out what would be an acceptable meal … [Read more…]

Posted in: Gluten-free living, Living abroad Tagged: Birthday, cheese, cooking, fondue, pudding

So you eat bread, right?

December 12, 2017 by jetwife Leave a Comment

Food is one of the most commonly subject in my conversations with people here. It seems to be extremely impressive that we have rice in Canada, and much more that we actually eat it. It seems to be common belief that we mostly eat bread in America and Canada. What I find funny is that … [Read more…]

Posted in: Gluten-free living, Japanese living, Living abroad Tagged: cooking, gluten free, Japanese cooking
  • EnglishEnglish
  • FrançaisFrançais

Recent Posts

  • Weekly Kanji – 目 – Eye
  • Weekly Kanji – 今 – Now + Udemy and JLPT exams
  • Weekly Kanji – 次 – Next ~ New Resource for Hiragana and Kanji Learning

Categories

  • Arrival
  • Bento making
  • Budgeting and Paperwork
  • Clothes shopping
  • Craft and Sewing
  • Doctor and medication
  • Food Shopping
  • Gardening
  • Gluten-free living
  • Holidays
  • Japanese culture
  • Japanese holidays
  • Japanese Holidays
  • Japanese Learning
  • Japanese living
  • Japanese Recipe
  • JLPT
  • Kindergarten
  • Living abroad
  • Movie
  • Orientation
  • Pending departure
  • Reflection
  • Sake
  • School and Education
  • Sharing Traditions
  • Springtime in Japan
  • Summer Time
  • Tourism
  • Tourism
  • traditional art
  • Uncategorized
  • winter time

Support This Blog!

Tags

bamboo beans beets cheese Cold cooking delicious Doctor education eggs English Food garden gardening gluten free house household housewife Japan Japanese Japanese cooking Japanese holidays japanese language Japanese learning JLPT kanji kanji learning kindergarten language language learning learning mirin New Year Paperwork peas poop recipe Reflection School soy sauce spring sugar summer symbol video

Admin

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • WordPress.org

What are you looking for?

About me

Mom of two from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. I Moved to Japan in July 2017 to participate in the JET program.

Receive Update via Emails

Copyright © 2019 Story of a Family doing JET.

Lifestyle WordPress Theme by themehit.com

Please support this website by adding us to your whitelist in your ad blocker. Ads are what helps us support and maintain this blog! Thank you!
sponsored
WP Facebook Auto Publish Powered By : XYZScripts.com