Our Adventures in Japan

Since I bought a whole daikon, I was interested in cooking it with rice. I found this recipe on Shirogohan and made it twice.... Makes 2 ser...

A great way to cut carbs... use daikon as gyoza wrappers! I saw this idea online and had to try. Adapted from the internet : 2 servings 100 ...

Apparently this year root and leafy veggies are plentiful and super cheap. I was able to get a nice sized daikon and yuzu for 98 yen each! (...

Recently we tried mizore nabe. Mizore in Japanese means sleet. Grating the daikon makes it look like "sleet". I peeled then ...

I mentioned that I made namasu and tataki gobo for our osechi...these two are really easy to make. Tataki Gobo adapted from Orange Page ...

I wanted to recreate the sakura daikon we tried from Marukoshi. I still can't understand why companies insist on using artificial swee...

My impression of kiriboshi daikon isn't a very good one. Most times when you get it at the sozai-ya (pre-made food shop) or when it is ...

Thursday night's dinner...started off with making "furikake", a topping for rice. This was daikon greens and jakko (dried sm...

Yesterday I went to help my mom and some people from her church make tsukemono. Almost every trip home, I go to help at least once. This usu...

Last Thursday, I met up with my friend Kazumi and she took me up to Nose (pronounced no-say). This area has a lot of farms, I think there is...

It has been really humid the past couple of days. Yesterday afternoon it poured with thunder and this morning we awoke to cloudy skies and m...

The rain has been coming down since the early morning, last night I was awoken by the awful humidity. It felt like someone turned the oven ...

It is the day after Christmas, are you at the malls? It is just another day here in Japan, in fact, a lot of people are trying to get ready ...

We've been having rain and humidity...ugh! But have been fortunate not to have had the flooding and landslides as Kyushu did over the we...