Our Adventures in Japan

Been wanting to recreate this ever since coming across this at the market I see them in the markets frequently so I've never tried the r...

Hiyajiru (literally cold soup) is something eaten during summer when your appetite is supposedly not too great. Luckily, I've never had ...

Found some nice sized kabu (turnips) at the market. I used a little more than half of one for our dinner the other night. I sauteed some...

The past couple of days were kinda gloomy. One day, it rained all.day.long. Yesterday it was just cloudy, so I got out and about and wen...

Have been wanting to make andasu (abura miso) for some time now. In Okinawan, "anda" means oil or fat and "su" is mis...

These tomatoes were super ripe, not mushy and only 300 yen for the 3! I used most of these for a miso soup. Make your dashi (stock). D...

Wednesday, it rained all.day.long . Perfect soup weather. I made a batch of Kim chee chige (minus the pork), using up what veggies I ha...

One of my mom's friends gave us some eggplant recently, so my mom suggested that we make miso-ae with it. Miso-ae (mee-so-ah-ay) ...

I mentioned that the first meal I made for 2012, was grilled wagyu with a miso dip , well, I remembered another blogger used the dip for sh...

This recently caught my eye at the supermarket. Nikumiso ra-yu. Nikumiso is made by combining pork with miso and other condiments. I...

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

Awhile back I tried to re-create a dish we had at a Chinese restaurant, but wasn't satisfied with the results. I looked through a Chine...

Lately for our dinners we've been trying to eat more of the "rainbow". Here is a dish that I made trying to re-create somethi...

When we went to Kobe last Wednesday , I popped into Fine, a shop by Cerfeuil to see their jams and to see what was new. I noticed some savor...

And here I thought that Spring was coming...not! The other day the weather here took a 180 degree turn and went back towards winter. In Tok...

So, the night before my physical, I had to fast, but before I did, this good sized boneless pork chop which we received from my MIL, was my ...

Usually I buy "brand name" veggies...corn, potatoes from Hokkaido, red bell peppers from Kochi prefecture, onions from Awaji Islan...

Daiei had a great sale the other day. Almost all their veggies were 99 yen each! Sweet potatoes, eringi mushrooms, nasubi (eggplant), green ...

I have a cookbook that gives variations of their recipes. Last year, I tried their recipe for Celery dressed with kim chee which was paired...

As you'll probably notice I've been hooked on "the carrot salad"--it is so simple to make and I love the refreshing flavor...