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...

My wife has been getting decorative figurines and china from a Fitz and Floyd overstock website (I call it Frick and Frack) for some time. ...

It is morning of the first day of 2023. The past year was marked by many events; not the least of which is the still lingering COVID-19. In ...

Happy New Year 2022! The pandemic still persists with the Omicron variant making it debut and spreading so quickly just when we thought thin...

The year 2020 was a quite taxing year. We hope things will get better in 2021, although we are, by no means, out of woods. Because of Covid,...

In the  Sushi Taro Osechi, we always get two traditional New Year items "kuromame" or simmered black beans 黒豆 and "kurikinto...

Happy New Year 2020 which is also the end and beginning of a decade. 2019 was not a year we would like to repeat. Hope 2020 is a bit less &q...

We used to have "Isobe -maki" grilled mochi (grilled mochi coated with  sugar-soy sauce mixture wrapped with a sheet of nori) for...

We had an unexpected break in our blog last year due to some unforeseen events that absorbed most of our attention. As the saying goes, lif...