Monday, April 27th, 2009 Butter… Up to now, I never thought much about butter, other than spreading it on my bread  in the morning and using it for my cooking. Now I start baking stroopwafels, I realize how expensive butter is in Japan. Butter  is a delicious solid fat churned from milk.  It’s used in…

Okay, today is the day that our stroopwafel maker arrived. I had to go to Kansai airport to arrange the customs and pickup. If we would ask the shipping agent to do the work, it would cost another ¥24,000, and it would probably take a lot longer. After taking the kids to school, I took…