The North American chestnuts we got this year were not as good as usual. They were kind of dry and chalky. We made our usual chestnut rice  ...

Since my wife is a big fan of Japanese "Satsuma-imo" sweet potato  薩摩芋, she got three when we were at our near-by Whole Foods.  We...

Some time ago my wife got corn flour  (instead of cornmeal) for one of her baking projects. I assume that "cornflour" is just more...

This is another frozen item forgotten in our freezer. My wife drew my attention to a package of frozen capelin or shishamo シシャモ. Although I...

Although we can get ”pork belly” or "Sanmai-niku" 三枚肉 (meaning "three layer meat" referring to alternating layers of fat...

This was a lunch one weekend.  Since we still had extra maitake which I bought when I bought the matsutake and I saw this very interesting ...

This is another example of 5 starting appetizers . This time, all five items were made by me--no store bought. Again, I used the long rect...