Leafy salad is not one of our favorite foods. Among the green leafy vegetables, however, we do like arugula. In Japan, this is best known as...

Our green perilla (a.k.a "Aojiso" 青紫蘇 and "Ooba" 大葉) is proliferating vigorously in our herb garden. Since we have so m...

One of our friends who has a farm in the area and raises cattle, chickens and other livestock gave us two fresh grass-fed beef tongues. The ...

This was inspired by the " Perfect Pairings " book. The original recipe is a tofu cutlet with scallion sauce. I happened to have s...

For the 4th of July, we did not do any barbecue this year especially since we had lots of food we prepared in the refrigerator (we tend to c...

It would appear that my wife is "binge baking"...something I fully endorse. This recipe comes from " Milk Street ". She ...

I had several ripe avocados in the refrigerator. Whenever we have extra avocados, I usually make guacamole . This time, I remembered a Japan...