One of our favorite "salads" is  tuna sashimi cubes and avocado  but for a change I decided to substitute cooked shrimp for the tu...

My wife is a devotee of Japanese sweet potato "Satsuma-imo" サツマイモ. Whenever she sees it at our near-by Whole Foods, she will get s...

This was inspired by a post in an Izakaya blog I follow. The blogger Mr. Hamada 浜田さん is rather well-known Izakaya  aficionado in Japan. He ...

This is a small dish commemorating spring that I made recently. Since we cannot get fresh bamboo shoots, I made this from packaged boiled ba...

We had something to celebrate but did not have a chance to get anything special and did not feel like going to a restaurant, either. So I go...

In our regular grocery store, we often find bags of colorful mini sweet peppers. My wife likes these peppers especially broiled with the ski...

 I made crab cakes, using a recipe I posted some time ago  . From one container of crab meat,  I made 5 cakes. We ate two immediately but th...