Two  years ago  I made green tea and black bean cake   using the left-over " kuromame " 黒豆 black beans in syrup that came in the S...

 I was duped into baking this bread by my wife. She found this bread recipe in a King-Authur flour catalog and ripped out the page. Since I ...

My wife gave me some new plates and bowls for Christmas which required us to rearrange things to make a room for them. During these activiti...

This is part of my wife's savory cookies project .  This is based on the recipe my wife found   in a blog called "Raspberry Cupcake...

This is on the theme of fresh renkon lotus root. This is another renkon ball  蓮根まんじゅう but instead of deep frying, this was steamed/microwave...

My Wife decided to make these muffins because she had made some ricotta cheese and wanted to use it before it went bad. (How the cheese was ...

 For New Year's eve, we started with this sashimi. I ordered Atlantic  tuna toro 鮪とろ, octopus leg 蛸, and ikura イクラ (all frozen) from Cat...