Since we had some very cold wintery days recently, we enjoyed warm sake several times. One such evening, we had the Japanese classic of hot ...

This is a variation of a dish called "Kin-chaku" 巾着, which is the name for a Japanese-style pouch with a string tie. When this wor...

This year the cherry blossoms were an on-again, off-again, on-again event. We had unseasonably warm weather in February and the trees starte...

This was a starter dish for one evening made up of leftovers. Cold salmon was leftover from pan fried and oven finished salmon filets. Stra...

In general Japanese are fond of hen's eggs (or for that matter any kind of eggs either bird or fish). This ranges from "raw" e...

I posted that we got 2lb whole octopus for the New Year . I made this Japanese winter stew or " oden " おでん with the octopus. The w...

" Oden " おでん is classic Izakaya food. Yakitori 焼き鳥 and oden are the two main pillars of drinking food in Japan.  Although any gi...