We like mushrooms especially shiitake mushrooms 椎茸. Since Weee offers a wide variety of mushrooms we tend to go “over board” and order too m...

When we get a large bone-in skin-on piece of pork (either fore- or hind-quarter), I do secondary butchering to remove the skin and bone. Wit...

We got frozen “Chilean sea bass” or “Patagonian toothfish” from Vital Choice. We also found they had “ sable fish ” or black cod. The sable...

I have posted many dishes using octopus which we got from different sources . We like octopus legs (boiled and frozen) from D’artagnan  and ...

I have to admit that I really like octopus (tako) and am on a constant prowl to find places to get decent tako. I have gotten octopus from a...

This is another dish made with chicken and chestnuts. Compared to the previous one which had a traditional Japanese flavor, this one us...

I found two packages of frozen squid in our freezer.  I got them from “Vital Choice”  when we got frozen Pacific oysters . I did not have a ...

These are four appetizers we started with one evening. I tend to make the same things we like but this time, for a change, I made two new di...

Again we ended up with a  bone-in cut of pork . This time, it appeared to be a "butt roast" instead of "shoulder roast" ...

Some time ago we got some really nice large boiled octopus legs from the HMart Korean grocery store. Unfortunately they have not been availa...

Since my wife is a big fan of Japanese "Satsuma-imo" sweet potato  薩摩芋, she got three when we were at our near-by Whole Foods.  We...

Although we can get ”pork belly” or "Sanmai-niku" 三枚肉 (meaning "three layer meat" referring to alternating layers of fat...

This is sort of leftover control but it was pretty good. On the previous weekend, we ended up getting quite a large pork loin roast. Instead...

The other day, we were in our regular grocery store and found salmon heads for sale. We have never seen this before. Of course, my wife want...

We were served this dish at our friend's home while we were in Japan. It is a pork belly dish but quite different from my usual " K...

The purpose of this post is to show our new acquisitions from Japan. These items are from Kyoto. I served mackerel simmered in miso . T...