January 28, 2018

January 22, 2018

Sweet Potato Rice

There is this amazing Japanese Fall dish called Kuri Gohan.
It's very simple recipe where you use chestnuts and steam them with rice in the rice cooker. But the problem is, chestnut is huge manual labor where you have to soak the nuts for few days until they're soft for you to slice off the skin with a knife.

SO for alternative, try using Japanese sweet potatoes!
It definitely doesn't do justice as Kuri Gohan but it still has nice cozy, sweet and soft texture as chestnuts. I'm also addicted with sprinkleing black sesame seed on top to give that roasted flavor. When it's up to me with my rice bowl, I cover the entire bowl with black sesame seeds!

This recipe is so stupidly easy I make them at least once a week in large batch!

sweet potato rice


Sweet Potatoes Rice
- 2 small asian sweet potato(satsumaimo) or 1 medium size
- 2 cups(rice measurement) Japanese rice
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1 tbsp sake

Optional:
- Black sesame seed


Step 1: Cut potatoes into cubes.

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Step 2: In the rice cooker bowl, add rice and water first following the water you need to cook rice.

Step 3: Add salt and sake, and mix with rice very well.

Step 4: Add potatoes on top, spreading them evenly. Cook the rice.

Step 5: Once it's done cooking, mix the rice bowl until potatoes are mixed with rice very well.

Step 6: Serve in rice bowl and sprinkle black sesame seed.


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January 7, 2018

Moleskine Planner 2018

Here is my 2018's Moleskine Agenda!
Went for simple "hi" with colorful flowly wave wrapping around the letters.

You can also check out my previous agenda I did too!
2016 Moleskine Planner
2017 Moleskine Planner

Moleskine 2018


Materials:
- 2018 Moleskine
- 1 Sewing Needle
- 10 Colors Embroidery Threads
- Sewing Awl or Ice Pick
- Pencil and Eraser


Step 1:
Draw your design on a piece of paper with same size as the agenda.

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Step 2:
Step to transfer the design on the agenda, face the front against the window and trace the design on the back side of the paper.

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Step 3:
On the front side, use pencil to color in the entire design, then flip the paper on to the backside of the agenda's cover and re-trace the design.

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Step 4:
With pierce, pierce the holes following the pattern.

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Step 5:
Decide colors you wish to use. For this I used 2 threads to stitch.

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Step 6:
And then stitch stitch stitch.

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Step 7:
And here is the back side of it.

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And keep stitching....

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And ta-da!

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January 3, 2018

Happy 2018

Happy New Year everyone!
Hope everyone had amazing 2017 and ready for 2018. Today is Kiddy Factory's 18th birthday, the day I started my homepage sharing my work. As my resolution is the same every year, I hope to keep sharing my creation to everyone! 

This was 2017's best nine at my Instagram! My outfit illustration was the most popular last year.
I've created separate account for outfit inspiration if you like to follow me there also @outfitdoodles.

Best Nine 2017