I do not know why and when thinly sliced raw cabbage became the most common accompaniment for Japanese Western style cuisines called "...

This is a classic American bar food. The dish is named after the city in New York state not the animal--buffaloes don't have wings.  T...

This is another one of making-something-from-leftover dishes. We had leftover roasted duck breast . I thought I was making a starter dish f...

One weekend evening, we had a series of small dishes with sake as usual. Among others, I prepared marinated tuna or maguro-zuke . The next ...

This is an assortment of "Chinmi" 珍味 items. Dried shishamo シシャモ and smoked scallop were sent to us from my mother, same ...

This is from " Otsumami Yokocho " Volume 1, Page 63. When I made the simmered bamboo shoot with wakame seaweed dish , I set asid...

 This is, again, not really post-worthy but I am posting this to make the point that you need to improvise on short notice when eating and...