Ah yes, the joys of middle age. I was just preparing dessert for the two of us — vanilla ice cream and strawberry jam — and added some shave...

Cherry blossoms. So in the end we did have a decent cherry blossom viewing after all. We went to Kawachi Nagano in southern Osaka to visi...

Rain, rain and more rain. The cherry trees are blooming, but the petals are being washed away even now. The weekend promises yet more rain. ...

I've finished the Hokkaido pictures, finally. The problem is that to get into the right frame of mind I need a few free hours at a time....

We started a tiny batch of olives last September , and now they're finally ready to eat. They're quite easy to make: Make a cut i...

Miso is a staple of Japanese cooking. Nowadays you buy it ready-made in supermarkets or miso-shops, but up until fairly recently it was no...

February already. Time flies. Things aren't going to let up for a while, so long, coherent posts isn't happening. Let's just do ...