Among the items in the Sushi Taro osechi box, was a grilled small “Tai” perch 小鯛の姿焼き that looks very nice and makes the osechi box festive a...

We used to get fresh whole mackerel from Whole Foods or Hmart (via the Instacart) but we have not gotten whole mackerel for some time. At o...

Haddock is not fish we usually cook but we had some in our freezer which we received as part of a “white fish sampler” from Vital Choice. Al...

We have a quite a stash of frozen food including fish. This evening, we raided the stash and had black cod a.k.a. sable fish or “gindara 銀鱈”...

We found a few cans of mackerel (Japanese.style cooked in water) which were approaching the BUB (best-used-by date) tucked away in the pantr...

This is the second dish I made using the sable fish (black cod) or gindara 銀鱈 we got from Vital choice. The last time, I made “ Nitsuke ” 煮付...

We got frozen “Chilean sea bass” or “Patagonian toothfish” from Vital Choice. We also found they had “ sable fish ” or black cod. The sable...

Although the cherry blossoms in our area are in full bloom, the weather has not been really great; gray and gloomy with cloudy sky and/or ra...

Japanese “Nabe” 鍋 hot pot is a dish that is cooked at the table while you eat.  Classically, a portable butane-canister gas cooker is used w...

We had a lunch yesterday of  mochi rice cake and cheese  焼きチーズ餅 and some side dishes. Today is the end of the first week of the new year cal...

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...

Canned mackerel or “saba-kan” 鯖缶 is a very popular canned fish item in Japan and is readily available in the U.S. Upon inspection, of the ca...

 We eat lots of fish. When we lived in California many years ago, we really liked  “Chilean sea bass” which is buttery moist yet flakey and ...

Shime-saba しめ鯖 is vinegar pickled mackerel and a very popular item in Japan. The best is fresh local “branded” mackerel (such as “ Seki-saba...

As always, we are so spoiled to have Sushitaro osechi. This is a picture of the upper box.  I am not going into the details but its all ...

These are four appetizers we started with one evening. I tend to make the same things we like but this time, for a change, I made two new di...

 This year, instead of celebrating the 4th of July (Independence day) by firing up the Weber grill, we decided to fire up our ”Hibachi*...

I have not physically gone to a grocery store including our Japanese grocery store for almost one year because of the COVID. We are mostly s...