“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...

This is dish is on the theme of using up a can of tuna. We had one more can of albacore tuna which we bought during the Covid protein shorta...

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...

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 year’s cherry blossoms have been a bit unusual. Our three cherry trees bloomed at different times.  As a result, while hanami arrived e...

One evening, we defrosted Chutoto bluefin tuna まぐろの中トロ from Great-Alaska-Seafood . I divided it into 4 parts thinking that I will make 4 di...

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...

Some time ago, I got a small block (5 oz.) of frozen fatty tuna from Catalina Offshore Products . I was not sure if this was chu-toro 中トロ or...

 We have purchased quite a few items from Great-Alaska-Seafood . We tried frozen sashimi-grade yellowfin tuna or "kihada-maguro" ...

Recently while browsing online purveyors of sashimi-grade tuna I noticed advertisements for bluefin sashimi tuna "imperfect cuts" ...

This is my on-going effort to find retailers where I can get sashimi-grade fish. As I have mentioned previously some of the on-line places ...

 Our Japanese grocery store " Maruichi ", gets a bluefin tuna for sale once a month (I assume from NY).  The date is not fixed and...

We made pesto and froze it when we had a bumper crop of basil sometime ago. My wife found two small plastic containers in the freezer recent...

When we got firefly squid from Regalis food , we also got 3 lbs. of fresh bigeye tuna sashimi メバチマグロ (akami 赤身). Since this was too much tun...

I started going back to our Japanese grocery store agai n. The last time, I got a fairly good hamachi sashimi . This time, I hit the jack po...

 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...

This year the cherry blossoms were early. We read it was the earliest full bloom of cherry blossom in Kyoto in 1,200 years. We have three ch...