Our Adventures in Japan

Sometimes when you taste something, you know exactly how to make it again when you get home. Such was the roasted onion dish we had in Awa...

I forgot to mention that growing up in Hawaii, we had to work in the cafeteria once in a while, I enjoyed these times, because our lunch was...

Hummus is really easy to make, especially if you have a food processor. I recently threw together a roasted red bell pepper hummus and we ha...

I had some cloves of garlic sitting out and wanted to use them up, so I roasted them with a red bell pepper and made a simple dip out of the...

The other day at the market, I ran across cauliflower. It isn't something that I normally see here, so I decided to get one...198 yen (...

It's been a couple of days now, I still have a little jet lag, like getting up at 5:00 am, but at least I can kinda go back to sleep un...

The weather has been getting cooler. Some days are beautiful and sunny while others are kind of gloomy and rainy. I think Autumn is almost ...

The other night I wanted to make something easy for dinner. I had looked online for a roasted stuffed bell pepper recipe, but most were kind...

Recently I've been addicted to roasting red peppers and then combining them with caramelized onions, eringi, a cheese and olives. I wash...

With Spring, there are the "new" veggies...like shinjagaimo (new potatoes), these are tiny fingerling type (the photo shows the di...

Thank you for your Christmas wishes. Satoshi was able to take the day off so we spent the day together. (Christmas is not a national holiday...

Yesterday I met a new friend. She contacted me through Flickr . Since she's travelling through Japan, she emailed me and we met for lunc...

Last night, I decided to roast some veggies for dinner. I just drizzled olive oil, salt, pepper and oregano. After the veggies came out of t...

Tonight's dinner was roasted chicken with onions (both red & yellow) and fresh thyme. Oh, and some wilted spinach. Remember I got so...