We mentioned that the two major styles of okonomi-yaki are Osaka- 大阪風 and Hiroshima-style 広島風. We have been making variations of Osaka-styl...

Here is a summary of the various “Osaka-style” okonomi-yaki we have experimented making recently. The picture shows an approximately 8 inch ...

This is a probably the most standard version of Osaka-style okonomi-yaki which is made using pork belly. As you can see, after placing sauce...

This is the third iteration of the small egg bites series my wife made. This time she used spinach and dill. She also reused a “feta cheese ...

This is another edition of my wife’s “small bites” series. This time it is a variation on “Pork, Potato, Goat Cheese Bites”. For this versio...

This is another one based on a recipe from “Silver Palate Good Times Cook Book”.  This is basically a variation of  “Yorkshire pudding”. My ...

I made many variations of the Izakaya dish of grilled and stuffed deep fried tofu pouches or “ abura-age 油揚げ” previously but I have not mad...

Fresh water eel or “unagi 鰻” is a popular fish item in Japan and many restaurants specialize in eel dishes. At these specialized restaurants...

This year, two of our cherry trees (shown in the picture) kept their blossoms for several days, which gave us an opportunity to have multipl...

Dishes made with grits used to be a breakfast staple for us. These included such things as shrimp and grits and  grits with poached egg . ...

Since the occasion called for it, I made a bento box which is something I rarely do. As usual, I used an adult sized two tier bento box . I ...

This is another dish I made to finish up the fresh wood ear mushrooms I got from Weee. Although we prepared the mushrooms by boiling and was...

This is a very interesting pâté recipe from “ Frog Commissary Cookbook ” my wife found. This is a pâté made of white beans and nuts. The col...

In Japan, one of the popular cuts of pork is thinly sliced pork belly 豚バラの薄切り. As in other Asian dishes, the meat/pork is used basically as ...

This is another presentation of small dishes (#1) I served one evening as starters. They are perfect little nibbles to go with sake. On the...

This is another one of my wife’s baking projects. This time it was small cheesy bites called “Savory Breakfast Mini Cheesecakes” which she f...

After our first hanami 花見, we were expecting bad weather and rain.  However,  luckily, we had a second nice day of hanami and I made anothe...

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...

Good tofu is difficult come by here.  There was a Kyoto-based tofu maker called “ Kyozen-an ” 京善庵 which used to produce good quality tofu w...