The Daikon season has arrived! I saw the first daikon of the year at the farmers market. It makes me realize the deepening of the autumn season. In the colder season, daikon is one of the vegetables that is eaten by Japanese people very often.  […] read more

Last month, I finally made my own V-steam sauna box. It had been my wish for a while, and I am feeling so happy about this! I am not a handy person at all, yet I very much wanted to make this by myself, not […] read more

One of the wonderful and nourishing foods to eat during the moon time (menstrual period) is definitely a warm soup. It is gentle, soothing, nutritional, warming, nurturing, and grounding, which is exactly what our woman’s body needs. And when we make the soup with a […] read more

Before the summer vegetables are disappearing from the farmers market, I had to make this curry!!  It has been such a precious time of year for me to see both summer and fall vegetables displayed together at the farmers market. Like I wrote in my […] read more

Writing an article about just toasted sesame seeds?! Maybe it’s a little too much, but I feel it deserves an article of its own! Toasted sesame seeds are such an essential ingredient for Japanese food. When you toast the raw sesame seeds, they get transformed […] read more

It is a precious time of a year when these two gourd family vegetables appear at the farmers market at the same time—cucumber and kabocha squash. For me, it feels at home to see them together, as kabocha is both a summer and winter vegetable […] read more

Before the summer is ending (in other words, while zucchini is still on the market), I want to share with you about my zucchini muffin/bread! This recipe can be used both for making zucchini muffin and bread I never knew about or ate zucchini bread until […] read more

One of the beauties of living in California with our culinary life is to have such abundant avocados at the market or even in some people’s backyards. I had never known the true deliciousness of this fruit until I ate it from the local trees. […] read more

October is here and the autumn season has arrived. Living in California, the seasonal shift feels  much subtler than in other places I have lived, as the temperature as well as color of the tree leaves remain quite similar. And yet, I have been feeling […] read more