I realized that I posted this same dish 14 years ago . Although the statute of limitation may have passed I am re-blogging this recipe. This...

Although I posted a few egg rolls  春巻, none are traditional/classic. So, I tried to make something close to “classic”. After consulting sev...

When we get groceries delivered, carrots come in a 5 lb. bag. That is a quite a lot of carrots and before we could use them up, carrot tops ...

When I was making our weekly grocery list, my wife asked me to include carrot juice. Apparently, she found a recipe for steamed carrot buns ...

I usually make this from “tarako” cod roe  たらこの煮付け. Since we got some shad roe, I figured the same recipe should work and tried it. I also a...

We were having some very extremely cold and snowy weather recently. One of the best dishes for this kind of cold weather is sukiyaki すき焼きan...

Like the last year, we put the New Year’s decoration including “Kagami-mochi” 鏡餅 and dragon or “tatsu 辰” zodiac figurines shown in the pictu...

A few days ago, we had sukiyaki すき焼き. I thought the whole bag (400 gram or 14.1 oz) of “shirataki” 白滝 (meaning white cascade) or noodle for...

Canned mackerel or “saba-kan” 鯖缶 is a very popular canned fish item in Japan and is readily available in the U.S. Upon inspection, of the ca...

 We have been getting gourmet meat such as duck and lamb from D’Artagnan . This time, we got an email promotion from them for  pork belly fr...

 This is an impromptu dish I made one weekend for lunch. We bought a bottle of carrot juice sometime ago with the intension of making the ca...

 Recently we received two pineapples as a gift. They were probably the best pineapples we have ever had. They were certainly much better tha...

 This is another muffin my wife made. We thought it was a bit unusual since it uses grated fresh carrot and banana. My wife got this recipe ...