My So-Called Japanese Life

That looks like a lot more cheese than it really was. When you live in a rural area, seasonal food means food that is in season in your area...

On a daily basis, I hear my upstairs neighbors going about the business of their daily life. I hear them dropping things, slamming doors, an...

Look at all that carotene . Back when I was working in an office, I used to make goodies for the entire office around Christmas time. Two pa...

As the New Year's holidays approach, shops start putting food on sale to clear their stock before they close up for a day or two. Usuall...

I've been endeavoring to diversify my home cooking menu and it's been rather difficult for various reasons. One of the major reason...

With the weather changing, my cooking inclinations also change. Instead of trying to cook light meals that take the shortest time and won...

Muffin-shaped Japanese sweet potato cake. Yummy! The Japanese sweet potato (サツマイモ), which I've extolled the tasty virtues of before, is ...

I haven't posted new recipes for quite some time because I haven't successfully been making anything new or noteworthy but last nigh...

When my husband came back from the U.S., he brought a package of Stella D'oro Anisette Sponge with him on the plane for snacking. He ...

I hate to shop. There is something missing in my female genetic structure which renders me immune to the allure of looking at junk and wanti...

The other day I was in the mood for something cold and sweet after dinner, no doubt as a result of the warming temperatures. I wasn't re...

About 8 years ago, my husband and I used to go to a "Mexican" restaurant a very short distance from our apartment. It was only Mex...

That's not cheese veined throughout the ground chicken. It's an egg mixture. That is cheese on top though. For those who don't k...

This excellent bit of food porn is brought to you by my white Konishiki tea towel which blocked the flash and allowed me to take a decent pi...

I'd been holding off on posting this recipe until I made these burgers again and could use a picture in the post but I took ten pictures...

One thing you tend to see a lot of in Tokyo are bananas that rapidly get overripe. One reason for this is that they are imported and have of...

My husband had a life in Japan without me before he had a life in Japan with me. He worked for a year in Kita-senju while we both conducted ...

This is a rare recipe that is all my own creation rather than a derivative or modification of another recipe. However, I can't say that ...

I do an English lesson occasionally from an old textbook called "Speaking for Communication." The lesson basically has students lo...