Since my wife was on a roll coming up with roasted pepper  blini, pesto blini and corn blini , she looked at the bowl of mashed potatoes in...

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...

This is dish is on the theme of using up a can of tuna. We had one more can of albacore tuna which we bought during the Covid protein shorta...

Full moon on September 29 (Harvest moon) in Japanese is called “Chuu-shuu-no-meigetsu” 中秋の名月. Traditionally, the Japanese admire (gaze) at t...

“Nishime” or “ Nitsuke ” 煮付け, 煮しめ is a type of traditional Japanese cooking method in which food items are simmered in seasoned broth. I hav...

This is another variation of Japanese potato croquette . I have already posted quite a few variations on this potato theme previously. I got...

This focaccia bread is based on a recipe from a new cookbook called  "A good day to bake" .  We got the cookbook at the recommenda...

This is another one of my wife’s curry projects. This is based on a recipe from Madhur Jaffrey’s  “Quick & Easy Indian Cooking” called C...

My wife was inspired to make these cheese croquets after viewing a similar dish on Webspoon (Youtube). Of course, ingredients and direction...

It was St. Patricks day so what would be the best way to celebrate? My wife suggested that at the very least a shepherd's pie should be ...

One day, my wife made these pirogi. She was inspired after reading a recipe in the Washington Post at the start of the Russian war with Ukr...

This curry is a variation of " Pork with chickpea curry ". This time, in addition to the chickpeas, she added black beans (left ov...

 This is one of my wife’s curry projects. Since we are now buying bone-in big pieces of pork (either butt or shoulder) which I divide up int...

We made pesto and froze it when we had a bumper crop of basil sometime ago. My wife found two small plastic containers in the freezer recent...

I found two packages of frozen squid in our freezer.  I got them from “Vital Choice”  when we got frozen Pacific oysters . I did not have a ...

My wife came up with this dish one day. A few days before I had made my usual Cauliflower puree . Beside eating it as an “adult baby” food, ...

 This is another muffin from the “Mostly muffin” cookbook . My wife made this since we had leftover mashed potatoes made from russet potatoe...

This is the third iteration of Japanese "Satsuma-imo" sweet potato roll/muffin. In dealing with various food shortages during the ...

My wife invented this loaf which is a variation of egg and smoked salmon in puff pastry . She already made one variation using smoked salmon...

This is a variation of Japanese style " meat and potato" dishes . Since I had baby red potatoes that were  getting old and some pa...