I have posted " chawanmushi "  茶碗蒸し or Japanese savory egg custard before. "Chawan" means "bowl" (more liter...

This post indicates than it is getting harder and harder for me to come up with new dishes to post. These are some of the dishes I served ...

This is an extravaganza I prepared using the remaining black truffles . If we could not taste or smell black truffles with this pasta dis...

When I ordered fresh matsutake from Oregon mushroom , I also ordered two small black truffles (from France). My wife says that even when t...

This is another way to present a one bowl "donburi" dish. Instead of a bowl, (which is "donburi" 丼 in Japanese),  howe...

Real wasabi root is wonderful stuff especially if you compare it to the fake kinds you get in a tube or in powder form. That stuff is most...

This is the ultimate taste of autumn; grilled matsutake  松茸 and ginkgo nuts  or "gin-nan" 銀杏. Of course real Japanese Mastutake c...