We like “hen of the woods” or maitake 舞茸 mushrooms. They have a nice firm meat-like texture and flavor. We cooked maitke  many different way...

This is a sandwich my wife came up with for lunch. We made “ pesto blini ” some time ago and found out when we toast the blini, because of t...

After my wife gave me this indoor electric pizza oven for my birthday (at the end of March), I have made quite a few pizzas (4-5 times, tota...

I came up with this for lunch one day. This is a left-over control dish. A few days ago since it is getting hot, we had cold “udon” pasta wi...

My wife is partial to spinach soufflé. Previously I made it the  traditional way  by separating the egg yolks and whites. Then making a béch...

We, especially my wife, like small appetizers or bites. She came across this recipe on-line and decide to make it. We had leftover “ figgy c...

I do not know how my wife decided to make this dish. She apparently saw this recipe on line and decided to make it.  The recipe calls for cu...

My wife found this recipe for “ Muffin with goat cheese and chive” in the Washington Post . Since we are big fans of savory cookies and muff...

This is an additional installment in the continuing tale of “we are big fans of “savory” cookies which go well with wine.” My wife saw this...

My wife ordered some small appetizers from Harry and David. We were already going to order dried fruit medley from them to make fruit cakes ...

I made this dish for lunch one day from what we had on hand and what we need to finish before it went bad. I just winged it without any part...

When we order broccoli using our grocery home delivery service, we usually get three giant heads (see picture below). It is not possible to ...

These are other eggplant dishes I made from Asian eggplant from Wee. Each dish used one eggplant so in total I used two of the 4 eggplants I...

This is a dish we made for lunch one day. We were inspired by the recipe called “ Smashed burger taco ” which appeared in the Washington Pos...

This is on the theme of multiple small “otoshi” appetizers. Previously we used a  5 segmented plate to serve 5 appetizers.  A few days ago, ...