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This is the second dish I made from fresh renkon (lotus root) we received recently from Weee. This a simple renkon salad. I have posted seve...

Christmas and New Year are approaching. Since my wife likes lamb, we splurged and got a large bone-in (or as they described it, “minimally b...

Whenever we get a large bone-in, skin-on, hind-or fore-quarter pork (called picnic cut), I do secondary butchering to produce one large and ...

When we got some Japanese “Kabu 蕪” turnips from Suzuki Farm, I made this dish called “Kabura-mushi 蕪蒸し”. This is a Kyoto cuisine specialty f...