Among the items in the Sushi Taro osechi box, was a grilled small “Tai” perch 小鯛の姿焼き that looks very nice and makes the osechi box festive a...

When we got the Sushi Taro osechi box, we also got two orders of hand-made soba  or “teuchi-soba 手打ち蕎麦” (Chef Kitayama is into making soba—w...

So, in the evening of January 1, we opened the osechi box. Picture #4 is the first layer. We quickly spotted our favorites; karasumi 唐墨 (rig...

Happy New Year! This is the year of  the snake 巳年. We put out a small Japanese “Kagami-mochi” 鏡餅 decoration with three snake figurines. The ...

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 ...