i hope you eat good food, grow beautiful things, and have more love than you know what to do with.
Every year, several flushes of Chicken of the Woods pop up on my lawn, and this year is no different. So I endeavored to make Japanese fried chicken (Karaage) with the one I found earlier today. I always tend to collect it young, before it …
It is shameful for me to admit that I had ever used Irish Butter before, and thus did not discover it’s greatness until the last month or so. It is deliciously creamy, fatty, full of buttery flavor, and I don’t know if I could ever …
I grow nagaimo (Dioscorea polystachya), also known as the cinnamon vine, Chinese yam, or Japanese yam here in my backyard—it’s a beautiful and funny perennial vine, growing little bulbils that you can stick into the ground or steam over rice. It is a pain to …
This is a fun recipe that can be modified to your taste. Seafood dynamite is usually some sort of baked seafood dish with mayo, the creaminess of the mayonnaise making it a decadent treat. You can often find it in the appetizer section of a …
When we were little, my grandparents taught my sister and I how to make these origami boxes from the stacks of magazines they would get in the mail. We would sit at their country style dining table (which is now the kotatsu table in my …
As I scour the internet for recipes on Akebia shoots, the thin, curling new vines that sprout each spring from last year’s now woody growth, the only thing that I can find is anecdotal evidence of the Japanese eating it as fresh greens, especially in …
Spring is here, which means my ducks have started laying in earnest. 7 of the eggs have gone into the incubator to replenish my flock, but I’m still looking at a good amount of eggs from my remaining 3. I’ve made mini soft boiled ramen …
The Covid-19 situation on Long Island has gotten to the point where my husband is now working from home, and my daughter’s school is closed for the next week. We also closed down the dojo for the next two weeks to give our medical infrastructure …
There are a few negi miso recipes out there, including a really simple one I use in my yellowtail collar (Hamachi Kama) recipe and shortrib donburi recipe, using just miso and chopped negi scallions. It retains the bite of the scallions since it uses raw …
I’ve been meaning to get this recipe up but it kept slipping my mind. I wasn’t able to taste test it until a month and a half after making it. Salted duck eggs are a traditional Chinese dish that preserves the eggs in a salt …