Hiroyuki's Blog on Japanese Cooking

It was a beautiful day today, and I harvested all other daikon this morning. 今日はいい日でした。朝、他の大根を全部収穫しました。 Daikon with their steams and leaves ...

This is my wife and son's very first attempt to make hoshi gaki (dried persimmons). 妻と息子が初めて干し柿を作りました。 Close-up: クローズアップ：

Today, around noon, I made lotus root kinpira for supper tonight. Skin and cut lotus root into thin slices, put them in water with a bit of ...

Yesterday, I harvested some satoimo (taro) from a small lot around my house. I put some of them in miso soup together with daikon this morni...

Much has been said about natto (fermented soy beans) by non-Japanese people. Some say that it's stinky and slimy and they don't lik...

Today, my son pulled out a daikon from our small farmland for the first time. 今日、息子が私たちの小さな農地から大根を一つ初めて抜き取りました。 I boiled the stems and leave...

Today, I went shopping, and bought two ingredients for oden: Chikuwa-bu (bottom) and iwashi tsumire (top). Chikuwa-bu is a tubular product ...