Some years ago, we gave up on preparing  fresh chestnuts  especially the North American variety. These have a characteristic tough inner mem...

This is a variation of “ renkon ball ” (renkon manju レンコン饅頭) I posted before.  Besides grated renkon lotus root, it also uses tofu. Since I ...

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 really like beef tongue which is not popular in general, not widely available in US and requires some “courage” to try it. But we like i...

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...

We used to get fresh chestnuts from California  every fall. The preparation, especially removing the inner brown membrane is time consuming ...

These are other eggplant dishes I made from Asian eggplant from Wee. Each dish used one eggplant so in total I used two of the 4 eggplants I...

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...

We like green beans but only when they are good i.e. crunchy but not fibrous with an almost sweet fresh flavor. Good green beans either stea...

When I get fresh “renkon” 蓮根 lotus root, I have more choices as to what kind of different dishes I can make than when I just have boiled pac...

I get Campari tomatoes almost every week and prepare them by removing the skin. Then I keep them in the refrigerator which is very convenien...

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 ...

This recipe also came from a YouTube episode by the original Japanese Iron chef Rokusaburo Michiba 道場六三郎. He made two dishes from nattou 納...

 Recently while talking to my wife’s sister, she mentioned that she had made clam chowder using frozen baby clams. In the past, we used  can...

 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 . ...

 Because we got 4 large American cucumbers instead of the 4 mini cucumbers we ordered for our recent groceries delivery, we decided to use t...

Getting home delivery of groceries is very convenient but one problems that the quality of the fresh produce may be quite variable since we ...