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 ...

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 year, we were fortunate enough not to miss having some fresh matsutake 松茸 offered by Oregon mushrooms  to celebrate the start of the fa...

This was the dish I made from the last remaining eggplant I got from Weee . With this dish I finished all the eggplants. I saw this recipe o...

Keema (meaning ground meat) curry and its variation dry curry are popular in Japan. I posted  some variations of these dishes before. This ...

Although the cherry blossoms in our area are in full bloom, the weather has not been really great; gray and gloomy with cloudy sky and/or ra...

This is another version of “ tomato and egg stir-fry”.  I made a few changes to improve this dish. Least of those is the inclusion of fresh...

 This is a variation of tomato and egg stirfly I posted previously. I learned that this is based on a Chinese dish called “番茄炒蛋” and there ...

We had a lunch yesterday of  mochi rice cake and cheese  焼きチーズ餅 and some side dishes. Today is the end of the first week of the new year cal...

 This was a lunch we had one day. We had leftover frozen octopus rice or “Tako meshi” たこめし made from a kit we got from the  Rice factory . ...

After making Philly rolls , I used the left over lox from Vital Choice to make a donburi for lunch.  I made the lunch in the form of a Japan...

Although I have posted   Philadelphia rolls (or Philly rolls) 6 years ago , it was a medium sized (chumaki 中巻) and the nori outside (omotema...

At the start of COVID, certain grocery items became scarce. Indeed, we had a time when we could not always get chicken or pork. We turned to...

When we have salmon , I make salmon salad from the leftover cooked salmon. My wife thinks the combination of sushi rice and mayo-based item...

 We have been getting Japanese rice from the New York Rice factory . It may be hard to believe (we our selves are somewhat incredulous) that...