While my wife was looking through “The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook”, she came across a recipe for “Ricotta Pepper Bread”. She thought ...

Over time my wife has made several variations of Japanese milk bread *. Recently we bought some commercial bread from Whole Foods advertise...

Our long time go-to Izakaya/sushi bar “ Tako Grill ” quietly closed in December 2025 after nearly 40 years of operation. Since COVID, Tako G...

We mentioned that the two major styles of okonomi-yaki are Osaka- 大阪風 and Hiroshima-style 広島風. We have been making variations of Osaka-styl...

Here is a summary of the various “Osaka-style” okonomi-yaki we have experimented making recently. The picture shows an approximately 8 inch ...