About 3 years ago, at the recommendation of my wife’s sister who used to live in the Philadelphia area before moving to California, we stumb...

I got the idea for this salad of julienned vegetables from two separate sources. One was a segment on a food blog I follow about a tempura r...

My wife grew up in rural Pennsylvania and although she is not Pennsylvania Dutch herself. She is very fond of the many Pennsylvania Dutch di...

We almost missed out on getting some “ Hiyaoroshi  冷やおろし” sake to celebrate autumn this year. We posted about “ Hiyaoroshi or Akiagari 秋上がり”...

This is another one of my wife’s baking projects. This could be eaten as a part of breakfast or appetizer. Nice slightly sweet biscuits with...

We had a fairly large sashimi block of yellowfin tuna in our freezer from Great Alaska Seafood  and time had come to finish it.  I planned t...

Mid autumn full moon or “Chushu-no-meigetsu 中秋の名月” happened this year (2025) on October 6. As usual, to celebrate, I made “moon gazing” moch...