official poster for Japanese Breakfast this year

This is the breakfast I made. 🥢up-left side This is a mixture of grated nagaimo (Japanese mountain yam), natto (fermented soybeans), vinegar, ground sesame seeds, soba seeds, and grated daikon radish. (eat this every breakfast) 🥢up-center made by stir-frying burdock kimchi with beef and green onions. 🥢up-right Nukazuke with seasonal onions and cucumbers. 🥢under-left Germinated brown rice. 🥢under-right Cabbage, taro, and spinach miso soup with sake lees. It was healthy and good breakfast!

June 6, 2014

Where Is My Great Big Feeling?

“I wrote these seven songs as part of a blog with Eskimeaux, Florist, Frankie Cosmos and Small Wonder. may5to12songs.tumblr.com

A few weeks before I played with Frankie Cosmos at Golden Tea House and talked to Greta and Gabby about how helpful June was for me and both expressed a desire to give it a shot for a week.

Working with four other people made the process a little more difficult because it was hard not to feel shitty about my own songs in comparison to how beautiful and well worked everyone else's felt. In the same breath, I felt like everyone was just writing some really vulnerable stuff, and it definitely encouraged me to just be really open and honest about my feelings. I feel like I projected a lot of the small things I knew about these four other musicians and felt really close to them, like we were sharing diaries or something. Florist in particular I met for the first time on Day 2 and saw her wearing a neck brace and speculated a lot of her songs were about her accident and injuries and how difficult that must have been. I also know Gabby from Eskimeaux wasn't on tour with her boyfriend at the time and how she must have missed him and maybe expressed some of that in her songs. I think it's just amazing how different all of our experiences during this week were and what we were all sorting through the same exact period of time and under the same guidelines.

In the beginning I feel like the songs are more diary like. This happened to be the week I went up to NY so it was difficult to find time to write songs. Day 1 and 2 were the sort of impending doom songs. My mother was having a lot of doctors appointments and check ups with the suspicion something was up. Day 3 we found out my mother has a rare form of pancreatic cancer. It was very difficult to write and record these songs after that and that is probably why day 5 and 6 get so silly. I'm hesitant to post this I guess, but I also feel like the musicians I admire the most are those that just put stuff out there, no matter how revealing or hurtful. It's been a difficult time for me and my family and doing projects like this really helps document and sort through these emotions. I also hope anyone else who lost or is struggling with a family member or friend with cancer can maybe find some comfort in these shitty lo fi songs.”

Got the chance to photograph Japanese Breakfast at Day In Day Out fest in Seattle last summer! Here are some of my favorite shots of Michelle ! :)

Then, in high school, I had a kind of mental breakdown; I didn't want to go to school anymore. It felt pointless. It was around the same time that I became really interested in music.

- Michelle Zauner

ナスを一度ごま油で焼いてから味噌汁に加える。油を吸ったナスがジューシーで美味しい。 ・ローストポークにからし醤油 ・かぼちゃとクルミのサラダ ・アボカドに海苔醤油 ・みょうがの甘酢漬け ・卵焼き ・焼きナスの味噌汁 ・玄米雑穀ごはん #japanesefood #japanesebreakfast #washoku #朝食 #おうちごはん #和食ごはん #味噌汁 #焼き茄子 #卵焼き #ローストポーク https://www.instagram.com/p/CmPzqeBSiTB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Aloha, all! Here's my latest Generation Gap comic strip featured in The Hawai‘i Herald • A lot of us think of breakfast as bacon, eggs, toast, etc. Years ago, when I was in Japan, we had a "traditional Japanese" breakfast also called "wachoushoku," which consisted of several dishes: Salted salmon, miso soup, rice, tamagoyaki (rolled egg omelet), tofu, and hot tea. It also included natto, pickled vegetables, and seaweed salads. The importance is the balance of the meal and isn't intended to make you feel heavy as breakfast is an important meal (as opposed to the schoolgirl dashing out of the house with a piece of toast dangling from their mouth as they race to school because they're late). •(For the record, as a kid, I destroyed a frying pan by trying to cook eggs without adding any oil, so it stuck to the pan and wouldn't come off! - this was YEARS before non-stick pans) •Hope everyone has a great weekend! Happy Mother's Day! Keep smiling and stay safe 😊 #jonjmurakami #mothersday #breakfestinbed #comic #comicstrip #cartoon #generationgap #japanesebreakfast https://www.instagram.com/p/CdOZYFHpxBK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Spam Musubi with Tamago Elevate your taste buds with the delectable combination of Spam Musubi and Tamago. A match made in culinary heaven.

Salmon tea rice, also known as Sake Chazuke, is a traditional Japanese breakfast porridge.

Awaken your senses to the enchanting aroma and delicate flavors of Sake Chazuke, a cherished Japanese morning ritual that combines the richness of salmon, the subtle notes of tea, and the comforting warmth of rice.

blogging again!

Hi!! i know i never did a lot with this blog lol but i might start blogging again and maybe doing something different this time?? I'll probably talk about music, fashion, beauty, and lifestyle! I'm currently focusing on self improvement and getting back into my hobbies, so i may also document some of that here too, idk yet. follow if u want to see any of those things, and i may be starting again!!!

I’m coming for you Tampa, and I made room in my SUV to smuggle some warm weather back with me to Tennessee! ☀️☀️It’s too bad i couldn’t find a Cecil Fielder jersey to wear and maybe even get signed…he’s one of the OG Detroit Tigers and I remember seeing him play at the old Tigers Stadium when I was a kid! ⚾️🎶 #InningsFestival #Tampa #Florida #Baseball #MusicIsMyDrug #DaveMatthewsBand #Pitbull #ImagineDragons #Weezer #Grouplove #JapaneseBreakfast #MarcusMumford #TheBreeders #ThirdEyeBlind #TheAvettBrothers #TheHeavyHeavy #CecilFielder #DetroitTigers #WadeBoggs #BostonRedSox (at Buc-ee's) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp6q9_KtVcx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#japanesebreakfast https://www.instagram.com/p/Coyr6VWrkW2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

☘️ Japanese breakfast at the modern restaurant around city center! 😀 #Breakfast #JapaneseBreakfast #Japanese (at OKONOMI) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnKL_ewpQMP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

My career has exceeded beyond all fantasty and expectations that I ever held.

- Michelle Zauner