We received the hard cover copy of last year’s posts. My wife always likes to have a paper copy of our blog in her hands as something substa...

This is another dish based on the theme that we “rediscovered” our juicer . After making fresh carrot juice, we remembered that I used to ma...

This is certainly not a drinking snack but rather one for the day after to combat any ill effects of indulgence the night before. We got a j...

As usual, I had the raw trimmings from two pork tenderloins leftover after cooking the tenderloins. I thought I would make something which I...

When I posted " Saki-ika" tempura さきイカの天ぷら, I mentioned my childhood memory of whole dried squid called surume するめ. I said; Whe...

This is a quick dish. I used shio-koji as a seasoning but you could just use salt. Shio-koji adds just a hint of sweetness and complexity bu...

I spotted fresh and cleaned smelt in our regular grocery store one day. Smelt is a small fish and, in Japan, a type of smelt is called "...