This is my effort to use up whatever we had on hand. The first item was nappa cabbage or “hakusai 白菜” I got from Weee. It was fairly big and...

I saw this recipe of “Mock tofu” or “Gisei-dofu 擬制豆腐” on Youtube by Chef. Kasahara 笠原. It looked interesting and I happened to have extra t...

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...

When we got the Sushi Taro osechi box, we also got two orders of hand-made soba  or “teuchi-soba 手打ち蕎麦” (Chef Kitayama is into making soba—w...

It is getting cold. We decided to have a hot tofu dish called “Yu-dofu” 湯豆腐.  “Yu” means “hot water” and “dofu” is “tofu*. I am surprised to...

This is a slight variation from “  kinpira  daikon ” 金平大根 I posted before. I made this dish since I had  the tail end of a daikon from Weee ...

When we had “ Hiya-oroshi ” 冷やおろしsake this year, one of them was from Yamagata prefecture 山形県 and is called “ Shounai-bijin  庄内美人” or Shouna...

This is another dish made using enoki mushrooms. I have posted quite a few enoki dishes . Turns out this is one of our favorite enoki dishes...

We like mushrooms. Our favorite is shiitake. Maitake 舞茸 or hen-of-the-woods is also great. Although it may not be one of our absolute favori...

We like “hen of the woods” or maitake 舞茸 mushrooms. They have a nice firm meat-like texture and flavor. We cooked maitke  many different way...

This is another variation of stir-fried eggplant  to which this version is very similar but I skipped a few steps to make it easier and quic...

Cold vegetables soaked in broth is the perfect dish for summer. I have posted cold simmered tomat o and sugar snap soaked in salt broth bef...

This is one of the left-over control dishes. I had a package of “medium firm” tofu 豆腐 which just reached “BUB” (Best Used By) date, the last...

We used to grow garlic chives or “nira” ニラ in our herb garden but it failed in two ways: 1) the garlic chives were very fibrous except when ...

Although I posted a few egg rolls  春巻, none are traditional/classic. So, I tried to make something close to “classic”. After consulting sev...

This is another installment of 9 “otoshi” appetizers . I managed to fill all 9 spots with small dishes I made. Three fish dishes and 6 veget...

I made this dish mostly for left-overs control. I can now get fresh wood ear mushrooms from Weee. Previously the only wood ear mushrooms I c...

This is an impromptu dish I put together to use the last eggplant we got recently from Weee. I also had a high-quality fresh shiitake mushro...

We like mushrooms. We used to get fresh mushrooms from Oregon mushrooms (on-line order) and Whole Foods but recently, we have been getting ...

Although fish roe are very popular in Japan, it is not common in U.S.. Few exceptions are, of course caviar , bottargo , and shad roe . We p...