I intended to make a pork loin roast but the center cut chops available were so thick and beautiful that I veered off-course and chose...

Just look at those meatballs, Don't you just want to dive in and eat them? A lovely example of the Maillard reaction and sweet, salty and...

To say that I was pleased with myself after making this is a bit of an understatement. Those of you who subscribe to this blog know that...

I was slightly overenthusiastic about the Bulldog sauce but, despite that tiny mishap, the effort of hand pounding the pork thinly and...

Apparently it is Asia week chez us. This dish is a riff on one that the grandmother at my Hokkaido home-stay family used to make for me....

Another surprisingly flavorful and easy dish; a take on the Japanese classic shoga-yaki. We cooked these on the outside grill and the...

This, my friends, was a really good burger. Not a traditional one by any means but certainly one a really juicy one that I want to eat...

This dish must be made on the day before you plan to deep clean your kitchen and after disabling the smoke detector. Though truly...

Short ribs were on sale again so it seemed a good time to make this dish. Also, having opened a can of chilis in adobo sauce for...

Your initial reaction upon seeing this photo might be "oh that isn't char siu pork, char siu pork is bright red!' And yes, it usually is...

I think I am on a roll this month. While I haven't topped last week's chicken dish yet, this was a very close second. Completely...

Mapo tofu is delicious but, try as I might - and my low standards in photography didn't help - I could not make the dish look yummy. For...

When L. was little we lived in London and, being an Anglophile, I made sure that lamb with mint sauce made an appearance on our table...

When I was a little girl in Japan, my mother would give me money every day to buy a snack on the way home from school. This makes sense...

L., with great misgivings written all over his face, asked me what this dish was and I said "well, I think it will taste a bit like...

Sometimes there is nothing like a burger. I don't eat huge amounts of cave man-y animal protein but occasionally nothing will do but red...

I was a bit worried about potential comments from Stubbie and L.. I thought it tasted delicious but, as they say in British novels, it...