New Year has arrived and we are now in 2026! As usual, we had our regular breakfast on New Year’s day consisting of cappuccino, yogurt with ...

This is another inventory control dish. This time, frozen scallops and shell-on shrimp from “Great Alaska Seafood”. We had this as an ending...

About 3 years ago, at the recommendation of my wife’s sister who used to live in the Philadelphia area before moving to California, we stumb...

I made Ricotta and parmesan cheese meat balls from a half pound of the ground chicken we bought from the grocery store recently. From the o...

We used to grow garlic chives or “nira” ニラ in our herb garden but it failed in two ways: 1) the garlic chives were very fibrous except when ...

This is my third attempt at making “ shumai ” 焼売 dumplings.  In the previous 2 attempts the dumplings fell apart when I cooked them and I en...

Like the last year, we put the New Year’s decoration including “Kagami-mochi” 鏡餅 and dragon or “tatsu 辰” zodiac figurines shown in the pictu...

We started using quail eggs ウズラの卵 from fresh eggs that we boil rather than using canned ones since the quality is much better. We can get fr...

This is on the theme of multiple small “otoshi” appetizers. Previously we used a  5 segmented plate to serve 5 appetizers.  A few days ago, ...

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...

We really like  crab cake s and make them every-now-and-then.  We bought an 8oz container of pasteurized lump crab meat some time ago and de...

This is not a new dish just a variation on an established one but the variation came out rather nicely. Since we received fresh wood ear and...

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

It is morning of the first day of 2023. The past year was marked by many events; not the least of which is the still lingering COVID-19. In ...

We have been taking out omakase sushi and sashimi 刺身と寿司おまかせ from Tako Grill since March of 2020 after it closed for dining-in. I have poste...