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 found this recipe for “ Muffin with goat cheese and chive” in the Washington Post . Since we are big fans of savory cookies and muff...

We like green beans but only when they are good i.e. crunchy but not fibrous with an almost sweet fresh flavor. Good green beans either stea...

Although we have dried apricots in the pantry, we almost never get fresh apricots. Somehow one day, we got a bag of apricots. We let them ri...

It is getting to be the season for fresh corn and we have gotten quite few ears of it recently. We (mostly my wife) love corn and we’re maki...

We occasionally get a free cook booklets from Giant grocery store when we receive a grocery delivery. One of these include small “bites” typ...

This is probably the last muffin my wife will make from left-over cookies; Because she has used them all up. This time it was using thin gin...

Since we got Brod and Taylor’s folding proofer for bread , we are on their mailing list which includes new products and recipes. One of thes...

This is another muffin made from the chocolate cookie crumbs from the chocolate covered cookies rediscovered in the pantry. The recipe ...

This is a continuation of my wife’s saga about finding old forgotten chocolate covered cookies in the pantry and making muffins from them. S...

This is another my wife’s baking projects. She’s made almost all the muffins from Nancy Silverton’s “Pastries from La Brea bakery”  but some...

This is another one of my wife’s baking projects. This time it’s mini honey corn muffins. They have a pleasant sweetness and corn flavor. Th...

This is another variation on the theme of blueberry muffins . When we got less than perfect (in terms of the shape/consistency and sourness)...

Although we generally like home delivery of groceries, the quality of produce can be a bit unreliable. Since it was high-season for blueberr...

We posted English muffin previously but have not made them for some time especially since my wife started making English muffin bread . But...

 I am wondering if I should change the name of the blog since my wife’s baking is more frequent than my Izakaya dishes these days. In any ca...

 We bought dried persimmon or "hoshigaki" 干し柿 from Japan through the Japanese taste . We ate some and made a few small dishes. Alt...

This is my wife's continuing muffin project. We got fairly good blueberries. Since she has made quite few kinds of blueberry muffins, sh...

This is my wife's muffin project. This is rather unique. The muffin has Boursin cheese , scallion and garlic. Despite scallion and garli...

 Recently we received two pineapples as a gift. They were probably the best pineapples we have ever had. They were certainly much better tha...