Satsuki: Month of Verdure


Kansai style sushi - different type of sushi (usual sushi restaurant's sushi is Edo-mae/Tokyo style)

Takenoko: bamboo shoots

Tororo-soba: buckwheat noodle with mountain yam potato


Aji no Nanbanzuke: kind of Japanese escabeche of horse mackerel & seasonal vegeatables - this marinating sauce has a light and refreshing flavour with rice vinegar & dashi stock.



Month of Sakura




Ichigo-daifuku: mochi rice cake with fresh strawberry

Yayoi: Month of Momo peach blossoms



Renkon-oyaki:lotus root pancake with seafoods


Simmered fuki/butterbur with yuba/soymilk skin
The season of fuki has started, my favourite!
Berry-cherry mochi - 'Sakura' mochi a la Uzuki
outside mochi's pink-color comes from strawberry puree!



Happy New Year, 2014!

Wishing you all good health, happiness and peace in the new year, 2014!


O-sechi: New Year's special foods

'Iwaizakana'



Kikuka-daikon: flower shaped pickled daikon radish