i hope you eat good food, grow beautiful things, and have more love than you know what to do with.
My mom gave me a yogurt maker and while I don’t particularly like or eat much yogurt, I do like and eat a lot of natto. Slippery, slimy, and pungent, it’s one of my (and my children’s) favorite things to pour over a bowl of …
Warning: This post contains information on raising quail for meat. If that bothers you, please skip it. First, if you’re interested in raising easy to keep Japanese Coturnix quail for meat or eggs, please check out my guide. The quail that did not go into …
I’m going to preface this by saying that unless you have a lot of time and nothing else to do, don’t do this. You can easily make a deconstructed one where you just pile the tebasaki (Japanese style fried chicken wings) high with melted cheese, …
Another recipe out of my childhood, this is one of my (and my dad’s) favorite dishes. My mom told me when she and my dad first married, she knew how much he liked steamed egg, but because of the lack of the internet (recipes were …
Today I cracked open two packs (grape and apple) of jello mix from the Kanten Papa corporation, which sells dessert (among other) mixes. It was a fun and simple little activity to do with the kids, and we very much enjoy the flavor (which tastes …
If you don’t like natto (like my husband), this isn’t the post for you and you should probably pretend it doesn’t exist. If you are absolutely obsessed with natto (like myself and our cute little daughters whose palates clearly take after me), this is a …
One of the things I’m committed to is supporting both my local economy and mindfully reducing waste—this includes the meat that I eat which means if it’s edible on the animal, I will find a way to enjoy it. I don’t shy away from organ …
Salmon Ochazuke (rice steeped in tea and dashi) is my oldest daughter’s favorite style of ochazuke—it has several of the things she loves: Salmon, ikura (salted salmon roe), seaweed, and rice. It’s one of my favorites too as it’s a breeze to put together and …
Fall is here and with it comes sweet and crisp vegetables and a huge bumper crop of my shiso! What better way to showcase seasonal cool crop veggies and herald the arrival of the Autumn salmon than kakiage ikura don? Kaki-age is a type of …
I love O-chazuke/Cha Pao Fan, which is rice steeped in hot tea. When I was young, if we stayed over at my grandparent’s house, my grandma would give us each a bowl right before we went to sleep. It was the only time we could …