“Shichi Hon Yari” 七本槍純米ひやおろし is the second hiyaoroshi we tasted. This one is from Shiga prefecture 滋賀県 (near Kyoto on the shore of lake Biwa...

Firefly squid or “ hotaru-ika ” ホタルイカ is one of our favorites. Spring (April-June) is the season for it and we realized we have some from la...

Firefly squid season is upon us and we got some from Regalis . I am repeating myself  here but when we visited Kanazawa 金沢 in early summer ...

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...

Firefly squid or “hotaru-ika” ホタルイカ is very seasonal and, in the past,  the only way we could enjoy it was to visit Japan especially Kanazaw...

 One of the delicacies of Spring in Japan is firefly squid  or “hotaru-ika” ホタルイカ.  Like last year, we got boiled firefly squid from Regalis...

The last time we bought fresh uni from Maruhide  丸秀, we also got a few “uni shutou” 雲丹酒盗including one with salmon roe 雲丹酒盗いくら入り which was a ...

This is nothing new; just a continuation of frozen and boiled Spanish octopus from Great Alaska Seafood . This is a good example of how an o...

This is a sort of standard dish using squid. I made this dish using the half of the squid package from Vital Choice . I posted a similar dis...

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 ...

 This is the dish I served using the third and the last tray of  "hotaru-ika" ホタルイカ firefly squid. This is a standard "Kara-a...

This is the dish I made from the second tray of "hotaru-ika" ホタルイカ firefly squid . This is stir fried hotaru-ika and asparagus in ...

 Spring is the season for a species of small squid called " Hotaru-ika " ほたるイカ or Firefly squid . It is so-called because it emits...

Some time ago we got some really nice large boiled octopus legs from the HMart Korean grocery store. Unfortunately they have not been availa...

 I ordered fresh whole squid from Hmart via the Instacart. Since there was a minimum of 1 pound for the order so I specified 1.5 pound to be...

Although I secretly aspire to come up with 6 appetizers to start a meal like we enjoyed at two special izakayas, " Suiko " 酔香 or &...

This recipe is from " The real Japanese Izakaya Cookbook ". This dish is featured on the cover. I ended up, by necessity, having t...