Our Adventures in Japan

Do you have a journal? I do. I don't write in it all the time. When I do, I sometimes rant in it and also write down meaningful quo...

I started doing this back in 2008, it is a nice way to look back at the year, through 10 adventures in my kitchen... 1. Dashi Chazuke , pe...

List of books read this year: for some reason, I didn't enjoy the first 2...maybe it was just me. 1. Pico Iyer, "The Lady and The...

So, if you are following us on Instagram , you know that we were headed for Akita Prefecture yesterday morning... We were all onboard and ...

Hope you and yours have/had a very Merry Christmas. We celebrated on Saturday and Sunday since Satoshi had to work today (it isn't a h...

How do you usually cut your apples? In Japan, they usually peel the apples then take out the seeds. I usually cut apples in wedges and t...

I know these days must be krazy trying to get things done for the holidays, so I wanted to share with you something that happened to me yest...