I never saw or tasted cranberries until I moved to the U.S. The beautifully deep red and round berry has quite a tart flavor with a slight sweetness. The taste of Vitamin C! I feel making cranberry sauce brings me closer to this culture. So, […] read more
I am in love with this applesauce! It is one of the staples I always have in the freezer. This applesauce is made with only apples. No sugar, no honey, or any other ingredients. And yet its flavor is so rich, aromatic, and beautifully sweet. […] read more
For the past ten years, I have only been eating ketchup that is made from home. It is so delicious that I can never go back to the kind you can buy in the store. Until I learned the raw food diet, I had never […] read more
When I was living in Norway, my dear friend Elisabeth introduced me to a fermented hot sauce recipe on a particular blog. I was curious, and yet I had not gotten to make it until last year, once I moved to California. Here in the […] read more
Japanese people love fermented food. We have many traditional fermented foods such as miso, soy sauce, natto, rice bran pickles, amazake, and many more. At the same time, there are different creative fermented foods that people create and share. One of them I was fascinated […] read more
This season has arrived!! Our favorite farmer Tom Shepherd of Shepherd Farms had his first Roman tomato of the year in the Santa Barbara Saturday farmer’s market. I have been looking forward to this moment and how fortunate I am that we were visiting my […] read more
There are different kinds of vegan mayonnaise on the market. In fact, I also make a few kinds by myself, depending on what kind of dishes I want to use it for, or what mood I am in. Cashew mayonnaise and tofu mayonnaise are the […] read more