I made this dish for lunch one day from what we had on hand and what we need to finish before it went bad. I just winged it without any part...

This is a dish we made for lunch one day. We were inspired by the recipe called “ Smashed burger taco ” which appeared in the Washington Pos...

This is another variation of Japanese potato croquette . I have already posted quite a few variations on this potato theme previously. I got...

 My wife is into panna cotta and aspic . She has been collecting panna cotta recipes and some days ago, she made basil panna cotta based o...

We used to subscribe New York Times Cooking. It was rather expensive for just the cooking section so we eventually cancelled the subscriptio...

My wife found an interesting YouTube series called "Kimono Mom".  A former geisha retired early got married, had a daughter, and n...

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...

This is part of the continuous effort to use frozen items before they get too old. In the freezer I found this sashimi tuna block which was ...

This muffin came about because we had a small amount of left over cooked acorn squash and a very ripe avocado.  Amazingly, my wife found a m...

After we had our first hanami celebration meal of Tako Grill take out , we received some shashimi items from Catalina Offshore products . It...

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 &...

I had an excess of ripe avocados. I asked my wife if she could use some. As she is a devotee of muffins, she found this avocado bacon recipe...

We found frozen salmon for sashimi and boiled octopus legs in our freezer. I bought these items from Catalina offshore products last De...