Because it got warm quickly, three of our cherry trees blossomed one after the other. The first one is dropping petals already, our main tre...

Recently, I got a new “Jubako” 重箱 which is a tiered square box with a lid for picnic like “hanami” 花見 cherry blossom gazing. I saw this at M...

This is my effort to use up whatever we had on hand. The first item was nappa cabbage or “hakusai 白菜” I got from Weee. It was fairly big and...

Last Christmas, we received chocolate babka as a gift. We enjoyed most of it but a small amount (a few good sized irregular pieces but most...

My wife saw this recipe for chickpea fries in the Washington Post. She then realized she had bought chickpea flour some time ago, to make an...

I made Ricotta and parmesan cheese meat balls from a half pound of the ground chicken we bought from the grocery store recently. From the o...

I made “ plupo al ajillo ” from boiled Spanish octopus legs from D’Artagnan . They were the last of the octopus legs we had gotten from D’Ar...