In the  Sushi Taro Osechi, we always get two traditional New Year items "kuromame" or simmered black beans 黒豆 and "kurikinto...

Since we had some very cold wintery days recently, we enjoyed warm sake several times. One such evening, we had the Japanese classic of hot ...

This was my wife's baking project for Christmas. She has baked versions of stollen and even panettone   before but we both agreed that ...

In one of the Izakaya blogs I follow, I saw a recipe to put  squid "shiokara" イカの塩辛 ( or as my wife will say "squid and guts&...

Actually, this was inspired by a dish we had at Sushi Taro Omakase and then by a variation that was in the 2020 osechi box and was called &...

Buying Japanese sake has not been easy in the U.S., that was, however, until recently. Surely any wine/liquor store, either brick-and-mortar...

This was January 2nd. We finished the lovely soba noodle from Sushi Taro as a lunch  and in the evening, we hit the Sushi Taro osechi box i...