Some years ago, we gave up on preparing  fresh chestnuts  especially the North American variety. These have a characteristic tough inner mem...

This fall we bought a new batch of chestnut flour. It was to replace the previous batch we had been storing in the freezer that had a Best-U...

My wife got three relatively small Japanese sweet potatoes or “ Satsuma-imo ” さつまいも from Whole Foods.  She was vaguely thinking of making sw...

We used to get fresh chestnuts from California  every fall. The preparation, especially removing the inner brown membrane is time consuming ...

This is an another cake my wife made from the new chestnut flour.   She came across the recipe using chestnut flour, persimmons, and butter...

We like pancakes for breakfast sometimes. One of the unusual ones we like to make is chestnut flour pancake ”. Since we are now in the chest...

So finally, we busted into the osechi box for the New Year’s day evening feast. Like we did before, I decided to use “ Tsugaru-muri ” 津軽塗り l...

This is another dish made with chicken and chestnuts. Compared to the previous one which had a traditional Japanese flavor, this one us...

For some years we have gotten fresh North American chestnuts from California. It is a lot of work to peel/clean chestnuts . It is particular...

In the  Sushi Taro Osechi, we always get two traditional New Year items "kuromame" or simmered black beans 黒豆 and "kurikinto...

The North American chestnuts we got this year were not as good as usual. They were kind of dry and chalky. We made our usual chestnut rice  ...

This recipe is again from "a  Buddhist  Monk" which regularly appears in Asahi-shinbun Japanese newspaper . Since I got taro root ...

In mid September, we finally got a shipment of  North American Chestnuts from Girolami farm .　I have already  exhausted my repertoire of ch...

This is a continuation of the seasonal chestnut flour recipes. This is a  recipe by Mario Batali .  We served it with very ripe and sweet Mi...

Since my wife got chestnut flour, she searched for some recipes and came up with this Tuscan chestnut cake. This is indeed an interesting ca...

When we got this year's shipment of North American Chestnuts I prepared my usual Chestnut rice and other chestnut dishes. In an effort...

Since I have exhausted my collection of chestnut recipes over the past several years, my wife came to the rescue. She made chestnut buns. Sh...