It is getting cold. We decided to have a hot tofu dish called “Yu-dofu” 湯豆腐.  “Yu” means “hot water” and “dofu” is “tofu*. I am surprised to...

This all started when my wife found a package of mini-corn tortillas at Whole Foods (picture #3). Even without opening the package, we can s...

This is a slight variation from “  kinpira  daikon ” 金平大根 I posted before. I made this dish since I had  the tail end of a daikon from Weee ...

Good tofu is difficult come by here.  There was a Kyoto-based tofu maker called “ Kyozen-an ” 京善庵 which used to produce good quality tofu w...

This is a variation on the theme of  “olive oil cakes” that my wife has been making recently. Previous versions were: “ almond olive oil cak...

We got matustake from Weee for the third time this year. Compared to other sources from which we used to get matsutake, Weee provides the b...

When we had “ Hiya-oroshi ” 冷やおろしsake this year, one of them was from Yamagata prefecture 山形県 and is called “ Shounai-bijin  庄内美人” or Shouna...