“Udon” うどん are thick Japanese noodles made from wheat flour, salt and water. I’ve  posted many udon dishes  over the years. We usually use d...

Cold noodle dishes using somen 素麺, soba 蕎麦 and ramen noodle “Hiyashi chuka” 冷やし中華 or “ Hiyashi ramen ” 冷やしラーメン are common especially on hot ...

This an impromptu stir fry of udon noodles or “Yaki-udon” 焼きうどん I made for a lunch one day since we had cooked udon noodles. We did not have...

I made 4 different salads (not all on the same day) and had the 4 salads for lunch with a cold asparagus soup . We also had a small piece of...

I was browsing one of the Japanese food blogs I follow  when my wife stopped me and asked what the picture on the screen was showing. It hap...

When we get Sushi Taro Osechi すし太郎お節, we also order  "toshi-koshi soba " 年越しそば or “going-over-the-year soba” every year. This soba...

 I served these three appetizers one evening. The dish shown on the left in the first picture is my stand-by fried salmon in sweet vinegar o...

When our refrigerator went kaput , some of the Japanese frozen items thawed almost completely. One of them was "Abura-age" 油揚げ or ...

Chef Kitayama of Sushi Taro is passionate about making hand-cut "teuchi" soba 手打ちそば. This year, "Toshikoshi soba" 年越し蕎麦 ...

Although we can get ”pork belly” or "Sanmai-niku" 三枚肉 (meaning "three layer meat" referring to alternating layers of fat...

This was sort of our (mostly my wife's) invention. One evening, we needed something to finish the meal (shime〆). We found leftover preco...

This what I made out of the remains of my failed attempt at making shumai . Since the meat fillings and the wonton skins came apart but the ...

We got a whole Spanish mackerel from the near-by Whole Foods and made our usual miso simmered mackerel  鯖の味噌煮. I also made  mackerel fish ba...

Since we had several hot and muggy days recently in the Washington DC area, I made this cold noodle dish from ingredients I had on hand. I h...

This is a re-purposed spicy red miso sauce with pork (niku-miso with red miso and pork 肉味噌) I made a few days ago. Since I made it a bit to...

My wife surprised me with a Valentine's day gift of an automatic pasta maker. I had made fresh pasta using a hand cranked pasta machine ...