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 was the starting lineup for dinner one weekend evening. I had just come back from our Japanese grocery store burdened with all kinds of...

These are small dishes we started the evening meal. Among the five items I served, only one is new which is in the blue bowl on the upper le...

The day after our hanami was cold and rainy so we could not do another day of hanami outside. Since we had to finish up our sashimi salmon,...

Initially I didn't think this was worth posting but I am running short of items so here it is. I made this before the New Year since I c...

Happy New Year! As we get older, it seems the year is getting shorter and no sooner do we turn around and we are facing the start of yet ano...

It is most difficult to find the equivalent English names for fish named in Japanese. For example, the fish called "Aji" 鯵 アジ  in ...

We really like multiple "otoshi" drinking snacks . This is another example which I made one weekend. From left to right are: "...

We continued with our hanami. We have mentioned before that, for some reason, the birds (and now other creatures) eat the cherry blossoms f...

This is a variation on the theme of chicken skin . I was going to make a simple chicken skin dish but found out I was out of Ponzu (-shouy...

Last year I posted chestnuts rice  or 栗ご飯. The chestnuts I bought at the gourmet market were probably of European origin and not particula...

In the food section of Washington Post online, I found a recipe for scrapple (a fairly "refined" version) and sent it to my wife....