We were trying to use up frozen items hidden deep in the freezer. At one time, we bought chicken from a special poultry on-line store. We we...

This is my third attempt at making “ shumai ” 焼売 dumplings.  In the previous 2 attempts the dumplings fell apart when I cooked them and I en...

Like the last year, we put the New Year’s decoration including “Kagami-mochi” 鏡餅 and dragon or “tatsu 辰” zodiac figurines shown in the pictu...

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 ...

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 hybrid of “ Renkon Tuskune ”  蓮根つくね and “ Tsukune with perilla ” つくねの大葉焼き. Since our perilla is growing profusely in our herb gard...

While I was browsing Weee Asian grocery website , I noticed that in addition to the  quail eggs  which we like to get regularly, they also h...

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...

We started using quail eggs ウズラの卵 from fresh eggs that we boil rather than using canned ones since the quality is much better. We can get fr...

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, ...

In my book, the best way to cook chicken breast is using the sous vide method. As I posted before , skin-on and bone-in split chicken breast...

When I stopped by our Japanese grocery store, they had some genuine Japanese eggplants and I got two. I asked my wife what I should make, sh...

I made 4 different salads (not all on the same day) and had the 4 salads for lunch with a cold asparagus soup . We also had a small piece of...

When I get fresh “renkon” 蓮根 lotus root, I have more choices as to what kind of different dishes I can make than when I just have boiled pac...