Our Adventures in Japan

The peels of the blood orange are so floral and fragrant that I only realized recently that I could infuse vodka with them. I bought a sma...

Nuts soaked in honey is trending here... I'm not sure where this originated but remember seeing them in Paris at their markets. Inst...

A couple of weeks back, I preserved a lemon in salt because I wasn't planning to use it any time soon and I didn't want it to rot be...

The other day on tv, there was a chinese restaurant that shared their char siu recipe. I'm always interested in finding new recipes th...

Remember those Thai chilies ? Well, I used most of them to make "koregusu" (co-ray-goo-sue) an Okinawan hot sauce. Just take s...

Last week, I had wanted to use up all the veggies in my fridge. I sauteed some onions until they were transparent, and then added 2 cups o...

Random things I'm liking... This bowl for sauce/dressing. My Twitter friend H sent this to me recently. It is made by a potter n...

So, after boiling the pork to make rafute , I kept all of the stock, which came out to about 4 cups. With 1 cup of it I tried making ju-sh...

After making rafute and andasu , I did something I've been wanting to do for some time now... Re-create Off the Wall's Shoyu Pork ...

It's definitely soup weather over here. The other night I made a vegetable bean soup with veggies from my fridge (carrot, daikon), veg...

Yesterday was rainy all day long. Perfect for cooking projects. I've always wanted to find a recipe to use the konbu (kelp) and kat...

So that canned butter chicken I was talking about is a new item from Inaba. They are the same people who made those curries with the tuna i...

The day I came back from Hawaii, I was unpacking and getting ready to get some sleep when Satoshi says, "Kat, I tried to make rice......

The other day, I got together with Kazumi and several of her friends to make natsumikan (chinese citron) marmalade. Apparently, every year...

It was my first time making karniyarik (stuffed eggplant), which is Turkish. I loosely followed this recipe  from Saveur Canola oil, for f...

Remember the other day I talked about green mango ? Well, another food item we put them in is mango chutney. Since I had 4 mangoes left,...

As soon as I put this coffee cake from Starbucks (on the left) in my mouth, I knew there was no actual banana in there. The flavor was fak...

The media has been running pizza delivery ads left and right, so of course, it gave me a hankering for some pizza. I wasn't willing to...

I know I was talking about soup weather but during the daytime it's been kinda summery. Still, you see people wearing boots and muffler...

The other day I went over to my friend, Kazumi's house. She recently renovated her kitchen and invited me over for lunch. In her fro...