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...

This is on the theme of “ stir-fried tomato and egg ”. We also added fresh wood ear mushroom  which made the crunchiness of wood ear quite a...

My wife ordered some small appetizers from Harry and David. We were already going to order dried fruit medley from them to make fruit cakes ...

This is another dish I made to use up the mushrooms (Shimeji and shiitake しめじ、椎茸). I also had “gobou” 牛蒡  burdock root. I got the idea of co...

I made this dish for lunch one day from what we had on hand and what we need to finish before it went bad. I just winged it without any part...

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...

We had two packages of tofu 豆腐 and one package of shimeji mushroom しめじ which I needed to use fairly soon. I remembered seeing a YouTube epis...

This is another version of multiple small appetizers dishes. I used the divided plate with space for 9 dishes. But I had more than nine to s...