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 . ...

This is another one of my wife’s curry projects. This is based on a recipe from Madhur Jaffrey’s  “Quick & Easy Indian Cooking” called C...

A few weeks ago, my wife suggested that it has been quite a while since we had  sukiyaki すき焼き and it would be nice to have some. I agreed, ...

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...

This is another iteration of one spoonful appetizers. I am making more purées or what I refer to as “baby food for adults” to use as one gul...

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

Last year, we could harvest only a few myoga (or myouga 冥加) from the new myoga rhizomes we planted in the spring of 2019 to replace the one...

This was a lunch. Since we made pesto from our window sill basil harvest , we decided to use the pesto, prosciutto, which was getting old,  ...

We made carrot juice  recently since we had quite a few carrots which were beginning to put out roots and had to be quickly used. The juice ...

There is nothing really new in this line up. These are the three starters we had one evening. The left and below are  Fried salmon in s...

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 is a starter line-up for one evening. Nothing is particularly new. From left to right are " aji-tsuke-tamago " 味付け卵 marinated...

This is a variation of Japanese style " meat and potato" dishes . Since I had baby red potatoes that were  getting old and some pa...

This is my wife's innovation. She really likes parsnips and came up with this combination one evening. Since we were roasting pork loin ...