We were trying to use up frozen items hidden deep in the freezer. At one time, we bought chicken from a special poultry on-line store. We we...

I was trying to come up some new eggplant recipes since we still had two large eggplants we got from Weee. I saw two recipes on-line using t...

I keep finding Japanese groceries at  Weee    which previously were just not available or difficult to get. This time, it was “ edible lily...

I saw this dish on one of the YouTube episodes by the first Iron chef Japanese Rokusabuto Michiba 道場六三郎. Although he is now 91 he has a You...

We planted a ume fruit 梅 bearing plum tree (prunus mume) about 30 years ago. While ornamental plum trees are quite common, we had to spend s...

This is inspired by a recipe in one of the  food blogs I follow . I have previously posted yakitori 焼き鳥 dishes made with a combination of ch...

My wife pointed out that a package of frozen Pacific saury or ”Sanma" 秋刀魚 was in the freezer and had been there for some time. I must h...

These are not new but one evening we had these two small dishes with sake. We got a pound of salmon filet. When we get salmon filet, I alw...

Whenever we cook pork tenderloin , we have trimmings left. From the trimmings, I make many other dishes such as  gyoza , pork scallopini et...

Did I happen to mention that fresh sardines at our new grocery store  often look like they just came out of a bar fight the night before? W...

I have posted similar dishes before but this one is rather good. Tofu comes in various degrees of firmness such as momenkoshi 木綿ごし (firm...

Enoki and Nametake mushroom are the same mushroom but enoki is cultivated and grown in the dark causing it to grow long and white. N...

We can not easily get "sashimi" grade scallops. I make a scallop sashimi-like dish from regular frozen and thawed scallops from a ...

Ume-Shiso Rolled Chiken 梅しそ巻き This is from the recipe in Mark's Izakaya Cookbook, page 130. "Shiso" or more precisely "...