Our Adventures in Japan

The Noto Pennisula earthquake that happened on New Years Day was so tragic. One of the stories that was featured on the news here was of Hir...

Can I share a secret with you? If you want to know at what stage of the season the fruits or veggies are in Japan, look at where it was gr...

Lately there are peaches at the markets. Love the peaches here, most are perfectly ripened--the fuzzy skins just come right off. So juic...

Have you eaten poi before? Poi is a thick paste-like substance made from the taro root. Taro is mashed with a little water until the po...

When I hear the word hydroponics, usually lettuce comes to mind. So, I was pleasantly surprised to find hydroponic blueberries at the mark...

I recently came across some blueberries grown in Nara prefecture. The berries weren't too big but these were a little tart and a littl...

The weather here is far from being summery, but blueberries are in the markets, so it was my chance to try this recipe I saw in "USA To...

Before leaving for Hawaii, I noticed these juice bottles at Seijo Ishii. They said "ZAK". I thought, weird, why would you nam...

We had a mini snow storm the other afternoon. Nothing that stayed on the ground for too long, but it was fun to see (from my seat on the so...

Yesterday I posted about making ice cream . Well, I also went onto Amazon Japan to "review" the Japanese recipe book in Japanese....

Thanks for all the great comments. I was surprised to hear about all the different types of drinks and snacks that everyone has at their St...

Yesterday was raining off and on. It was brrr...cold. The condensation would come out from your mouth when you talked. Though I made this ...

Well, it turned out that it was too hot and humid to go galivanting yesterday, but since I still needed some things for dinner, I did go gro...

Blueberries are available in the supermarkets now. They are coming from the U.S. I saw on a U.S. news program that the price of blueberrie...

As I was flipping through an edition of "Donna Hay" that I had bought in Hawaii, I came upon a recipe for blueberry scones. By no...

Every 15th of each month, a bake shop in our shopping arcade gives away a dish or bowl if you purchase 600yen worth of merchandise or more. ...

With the weather turning drastically cold the past couple of days, I think the "cold" season has officially started here. My stude...

This was the first time we had 7 people (adults) over to our cute apartment. Some staff members of Satoshi's department are readers of t...