Our Adventures in Japan

Last Wednesday, Satoshi had the morning off, so we headed to Umeda for lunch. The place we were planning to try didn't open for lunch ...

Last month after we tried Tea Salon Musica , I read up on Cafe Tous les Jours which I mentioned is located at the back of the Tea Salon. T...

With the other half of the dried tako , I made another pot of tako meshi. This time adding some gobo (burdock). I "whittled" the...

Apparently today, our area will enter the rainy season and according to the weather guy, the next week will be rainy...blah! The rainy seaso...

The weather last Friday was so hot that I wanted something that didn't involve standing by the stove, maybe even something "cool...

Another item we found in Kanazawa were sweets made from the eggs of the ukkokei (silkie bantam). This chicken's feathers are supposed to...

There was something neat that we found in Kanazawa...utsuwa chazuke. Utsuwa means bowl/dish and chazuke is cooked rice with green tea poured...