I would like to have fresh cucumbers (if available Japanese cucumber but American mini-cucumber is a great substitute). Usually American min...

The other day while we were shopping at the near-by Whole Foods, my wife found a new item which is called “Teeny Tiny Cucumber” (picture #3)...

We really like the pickled daikon which I posted before. I am making it regularly. As I mentioned in the previous post, the marinade contai...

 Among the Japanese pickles, “ Takuan  or Takuwan*” 沢庵 is common and traditionally made from “Daikon” 大根. My mother (and many other “mothers...

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...

These were five small appetizers we had one evening. Among these five appetizers, one is new and another is sort of new (a variation). ...

In order to use up some cooked pork tenderloin before it went bad I decided to make a Japanese style curry but I did not have any commercial...

I asked my wife to make this curry from leftover barbecued pork butt since it was getting to the end of it's life. This is my wife's...

When my wife made pickled eggs, she wanted to see how they would taste made them into deviled eggs. The egg yolk of the pickled egg was diff...

This is my wife's second try to make pickled eggs. Last time, she used rice vinegar and mustard and the eggs did not have enough "p...

This was the evening line-up of small dishes we had one weekend. Bluefish in miso sauce (left back), pickled egg (right back) and fish cake ...