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”...

Firefly squid or “ hotaru-ika ” ホタルイカ is one of our favorites. Spring (April-June) is the season for it and we realized we have some from la...

As we mentioned before we are big fans of “savory” cookies which will go well with wine rather than as a dessert. My wife has made a few in ...

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...

This is another eggplant dish using an Asian eggplant. This was inspired by a recipe I saw on-line but I significantly deviated from it. It ...

“Atsu-age” 厚揚げ or “Nama-age” 生揚げ is fried tofu with a surface like “Abura-age” but the inside remains as soft tofu. We used be able to get ...

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...

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...

I am always on the look out for places where we can get good and specialized (especially Japanese) groceries. I have known about the on line...

This recipe also came from a YouTube episode by the original Japanese Iron chef Rokusaburo Michiba 道場六三郎. He made two dishes from nattou 納...

 We, especially my wife, have been exploring Western-style dishes using miso such as miso-peanuts butter cookie , miso maple syrup loaf , sm...

We used to subscribe New York Times Cooking. It was rather expensive for just the cooking section so we eventually cancelled the subscriptio...

 We have been getting gourmet meat such as duck and lamb from D’Artagnan . This time, we got an email promotion from them for  pork belly fr...

 One of the delicacies of Spring in Japan is firefly squid  or “hotaru-ika” ホタルイカ.  Like last year, we got boiled firefly squid from Regalis...

I saw this interesting quick bread in one of the food blogs I follow (in Japanese) using “miso” and “maple syrup”.  This recipe was credited...

We saw an interesting recipe for chicken that used a sauce made of miso and bourbon.  With such an eclectic combination of ingredients parti...

This unusual recipe came in a freebie cookie recipe book from the local Giant grocery store. This recipe drew my wife’s attention because of...