(To see the most detail in this image, click on it to enlarge it!) Imagawayaki, also known as Goza-Soroh is a Japanese dessert. It’s made with batter cooked in a special pan, heated from below and filled with sweet azuki bean paste, custards, meat or vegetable filling. On a recent trip to LA, Cathleen and I went to LA’s Japantown … Read More
What’s in Your Altoids Box?
Each year, a night or two before the family’s Japanese New Years day celebration, we have a gift exchange after we work on food preparation. This past year, Jenny (our Master Game Creator) came up with the idea that we should each decorate an Altoids tin. It was a free-form experience with no other directions. All I can say is, … Read More
The Kids at New Years
We love having the kids come and have fun together while we’re preparing for our annual Japanese New Years celebration. This year, Reiko, Jake and Luke had a chance to do that. We have GREAT KIDS in our family and we missed the ones who couldn’t make it! If you click on the first image in the top left corner, … Read More
Sushi Variety 2013
This is a variety of the types of sushi the family made for our 2013 Japanese New Year celebration. If you click on the first one in the top left corner, it will be enlarged then you can click on the arrow beneath the enlarged image to go to the next image. The caption beneath each enlarged image will give … Read More
Ozoni 2013
(To see the most detail in this image, click on it to enlarge it!) It is a common Japanese tradition to have the first meal of the New Year be Ozoni. It is a soup that always contains mochi (a Japanese rice cake made of glutinous rice pounded into paste and molded into the desired shape). It’s usually flavored by … Read More