We planted a ume fruit 梅 bearing plum tree (prunus mume) about 30 years ago. While ornamental plum trees are quite common, we had to spend s...

I am always looking for alternative sources of sashimi grade fish.  Catalina offshore products  has been a most reliable source for a long ...

When our refrigerator went kaput , some of the Japanese frozen items thawed almost completely. One of them was "Abura-age" 油揚げ or ...

This muffin came about because we had a small amount of left over cooked acorn squash and a very ripe avocado.  Amazingly, my wife found a m...

This is from Washington post's  free-bee digital baking cookbook. We made "No knead English muffin"   from this cookbook which...

We made carrot juice  recently since we had quite a few carrots which were beginning to put out roots and had to be quickly used. The juice ...

Because of Covid-19, and the uncertainty of some food supplies particularly due to the closure of multiple meat processing plants, we were g...