i hope you eat good food, grow beautiful things, and have more love than you know what to do with.
Now that things have settled down a little in my life for this moment in time (including the terrifying ordeal of getting the dojo inspected for NYS COVID compliance), my creative juices are flowing so I decided to make a simple, but elegant pasta dish …
A cascade of blue claws this year has me cleaning and freezing them around the clock (I remove the stomach before freezing and scrub, so that they don’t have a fishy flavor due to crabs being scavengers.) Nanbanzuke is an easy Japanese side dish most …
I can be very extra with my food, and this is one such case. This morning me and the family went down to the docks, expecting to come away with maybe a couple crabs and some fish. Instead, we ended up pulling up two and …
My kids came in to give me the morning report–another flush of chicken of the woods had made its presence known on the lawn and so it was imperative that I harvested them before they got too tough. I made karaage style COTW a few …
There are loads of recipes for Japanese Steakhouse ginger dressings out there, and I’ve tried a lot of them… but unfortunately they always seemed to just be very slightly off to me and it drove me absolutely nuts since both myself and my husband love …
Summer is officially here and I took the kids (and one husband) down to the docks by our house for crabs. I live on the South Shore of Long Island where blue claws are bountiful between the end of June and the beginning of September. …
I don’t normally make omurice (Japanese Omelette Rice) but had extra rice leftover. I’m not a fan of traditional ketchup based omurice fried rice, so this isn’t a recipe for that (my fried rice is a simple mixture of frozen veggies, butter, rice, garlic, onion, …
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 …