This is a sort of regular menu for Easter breakfast . My wife baked hot cross buns for Easter this year as usual but without the representat...

I have not made " Teba-gyoza " 手羽餃子 for some time but recently when I did a barbecue pork roast in the Weber grill, I also made te...

Last year, in a nor'easter (winter hurricane) we lost the 30 year old cherry tree that formed a canopy over our deck and was the founda...

When I tried to make shumai 焼売 the first time , things did not go well. The skin did not adhere to the meat filling. In an effort to salvage...

I made this dish from the leftover bonito tataki 鰹のタタキ I served the day before. I first made it into "zuke" (marinated fish) by pu...

This is a just a variation of " Katsuo-no-tataki "カツオのタタキ or bonito filet with the surface cooked/smoked with a fire fueled by str...

We like octopus and squid. So when we went to our Japanese grocery store, we got two kinds of  pre-made packages of "ika shiokara"...