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 ...

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...

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...

This is a takoyaki たこ焼き ("tako grill") variation made without "tako" (octopus). This recipe is from " The real Japa...

Most of the mid-West and Eastern U.S. are having very hot and humid summer days. One of these very hot weekends, I decided to go grocery sho...

I made this dish from the leftover bonito tataki 鰹のタタキ I served the day before. I first made it into "zuke" (marinated fish) by pu...

This is a very simple recipe I saw on the  E-recipe site . Nagaimo 長芋 is usually "slimy" which makes it difficult for some to like...

My family never had a tradition of eating "Nanakusa-gayu" 七草がゆ or "seven herb porridge" which is usually eaten on Januar...

This was inspired by the vegan cooking by a Buddhist monk in Kyoto . He briefly cooked the nagaimo 長芋 rounds in broth, soy sauce and mirin ...

I saw this recipe on line .  It looked like a perfect drinking snack. Since I had both natto 納豆 and nagaimo 長芋 in the fridge, I decided t...

I bought atsu-age 厚揚げ at our Japanese grocery store one weekend thinking I would either add it to oden おでん or just grill it in the toaster...

One week we could not stop at our Izakaya substitute Tako Grill . So, on the following weekend,  I tapped into our frozen emergency rations,...

This is a classic way of eating nagaimo 長芋 or yamaimo 山芋 in Japan. This preparation of grating or "Tororo" トロロ, however,  is not f...

This was Sunday and the 2nd day of hanami 2015. The weather was beautiful and we maximized our time outside by spending most of the day on t...