This again is my wife's baking since I cannot seem to come up with new Izakaya dishes recently, although I am making our favorites regul...

This cold mint tea was served to us by a neighbor in the town where my wife grew up. It was a very hot summer day and we were waiting for th...

This is another one of my wife's baking. I may have to change the title of the blog to something like "Uncle and Auntie "N&quo...

I saw this recipe on line . According to the recipe, this was invented by a side-dish store (called "Sozai-ya" 惣菜屋 ) of  Kumamoto...

This is my wife's baking. Again this is from the "Beard on Bread" cookbook. It is rather unique in that it is made with "...

Since I had Kabocha Japanese pumpkin カボチャ, shishi-tougarashi 獅子唐芥子 or shishitou (both were from our regular grocery store) and "Gobo&qu...

This recipe is again from "a  Buddhist  Monk" which regularly appears in Asahi-shinbun Japanese newspaper . Since I got taro root ...