Since the occasion called for it, I made a bento box which is something I rarely do. As usual, I used an adult sized two tier bento box . I ...

This is the second dish I made from fresh renkon (lotus root) we received recently from Weee. This a simple renkon salad. I have posted seve...

I got the idea for this salad of julienned vegetables from two separate sources. One was a segment on a food blog I follow about a tempura r...

This is our on-going saga of dealing with BUB (best-used-by) date. We found a vacuum-packed package of wild rice (from Whole Foods) in which...

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...

We regularly get Japanese/Asian groceries from Weee . This time we got a Japanese “ Kabocha ” かぼちゃ squash. It was larger than usual. I made ...

A few days ago, we got some mission figs. Since figs tend to get moldy rather quickly, I processed them meaning I quartered them and then ma...

We found two cans of albacore tuna in our pantry. We are not a fan of canned tuna and I am not sure why we have it; something to do with the...

My wife is a great fan of ribbon or aspic salad which now appears to be out of fashion. I also developed a liking for these aspic salads. S...

In my book, the best way to cook chicken breast is using the sous vide method. As I posted before , skin-on and bone-in split chicken breast...

Although it is not quite local corn season, fresh corn is available and on our last trip to Whole Foods my wife celebrated the season by sto...

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...

Tenderloin of lamb is not a usual cut but we got several of them from D’Artagnan . We decided to try it for Easter dinner. I did not follow ...

The other day, we were taking inventory of our pantry and found boxes of couscous (classic and Israeli or pearled) as well as tabouleh all o...

We keep celery on hand most of the time. I use it as a part of mirepoix for soup, stew etc. I also use it for salad. Our favorite is thinly ...

My wife has been getting decorative figurines and china from a Fitz and Floyd overstock website (I call it Frick and Frack) for some time. ...

We tend to forget what food items we have especially those that are frozen or “hidden” in the back of the pantry. My wife found several boxe...

This is another variation of  my wife’s famous ribbon salad . The red layers are tomato juice based aspic but  the cream cheese-based white ...

Many years ago when we discovered the American mini-cucumber, we were delighted since it is the closest thing to a Japanese cucumber we can ...

 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...