We regularly get Japanese/Asian groceries from Weee . This time we got a Japanese “ Kabocha ” かぼちゃ squash. It was larger than usual. I made ...

 Because we got 4 large American cucumbers instead of the 4 mini cucumbers we ordered for our recent groceries delivery, we decided to use t...

Getting home delivery of groceries is very convenient but one problems that the quality of the fresh produce may be quite variable since we ...

This is another of my wife's curry projects. (She has been making curries about once a week. We really like having them for lunch.) This...

This is another one of my wife’s curry projects. This is based on a recipe from Madhur Jaffrey’s  “Quick & Easy Indian Cooking” called C...

This is a note mostly to ourselves to chronicle the steps we use to consistently make thick, creamy and flavorful homemade yogurt. My wife h...

Making good on her threat to rescue the somewhat less than successful “ skillet caramelized cabbage ” my wife transformed it into curry flav...

We made pesto and froze it when we had a bumper crop of basil sometime ago. My wife found two small plastic containers in the freezer recent...

 After making mini-waffle bowls, my wife suggested several ideas for filling them. For desert, ice cream and fruit appear standard. She want...

For a while during covid we were not able to get plain yogurt. In the past, my wife made yogurt using Dannon yogurt as the seed but when it ...

We do not like low-fat or non-fat yogurt. We go for the full fat version. Our favorite is Seven Stars Farm Yogurt  from Pennsylvania. The on...

I have not made " Teba-gyoza " 手羽餃子 for some time but recently when I did a barbecue pork roast in the Weber grill, I also made te...

This is another of my wife's baking projects. This is unusual since half of the flour is actually ground pistachio nuts and Greek yogurt...

I have not cooked chicken breast with sous vide for some time. One weekend, I decided to try it again and consulted "the food lab"...

I occasionally see Japanese pumpkin which is a type of winter squash in our regualr grocery store and when I see it I buy it. This time, I m...

Since we enjoyed some nice pumpkin dishes while we were in Japan this time, when my wife found a Japanese kabocha pumpkin (or squash) at Who...

Since Halloween is approaching, it is "pumpkin" season and my wife is into pumpkin dishes. Digression alert: apparently pumpkin f...