Our Adventures in Japan

I love ume (pickled apricot). Until I moved to Japan, I only thought there was one kind of pickled apricot...scrunch up your face sour one...

From Osaka it was about two and a half hours to Wakayama prefecture. The area we went to on Friday was called Shirahama , which means white ...

We're off to Wakayama...be back in a couple of days.

The other day, the weather man said it was supposed to rain all day. Luckily, he was wrong and it stopped and was just cloudy all day. I ...

Awhile back I made rafute , the Okinawan version of braised pork belly, what the Japanese call buta no kakuni . For last night's dinner...

I made this dish awhile ago, but I thought I would post about it today since it is raining and the temperature has started to drop here. Thi...

On Saturday, we got together with my host family, their children and their children's children. I've written about my host-mom and...