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Asian Caprese Salad

This Asian Caprese Salad, I suppose, technically isn’t Caprese salad.  But instead, it’s a healthier alternative to the traditional Caprese salad made with traditionally Japanese ingredients.   What is Caprese Salad? This simple yet beautiful Italian salad is usually…

Japanese Grilled Chicken Skewers (Yakitori) with Shishito Peppers

Traditionally, yakitori, Japanese grilled chicken skewers are made with green onions but I mixed it up a bit and made some with shishito peppers…

Asian Sesame Spaghetti Squash Salad

If you love spaghetti squash, this is one of those recipes that you’d wish you found sooner!  Similar to my Japanese pasta salad, this creamy, savory Asian sesame spaghetti squash salad is a delicious side dish to serve…

Spicy Asian Peanut Spaghetti Squash

It’s spicy.  It’s creamy and crunchy.  It’s garlicky.  What is not to like about this delightfully addicting spicy Asian peanut spaghetti squash?  You’ll just wish you made more of it! I’m…

Easiest way to cook spaghetti squash with Instant Pot

If you are like me, you love spaghetti squash but you hate the process of getting the “meat” out.  You’d cook this nutritious, very versatile vegetable (I think it’s technically a fruit!) more often only if…

Tuna Mayo Pasta Salad

This tuna mayo pasta salad recipe was created as a desperate solution to make something EASY for dinner with ingredients I already had.  But this concoction turned out so good that it is now on a regular rotation in…

Yakisoba – Japanese Stir-fried Noodles

When you watch cop drama shows on TV, have you noticed that for some reason the detectives often eat Chinese food directly out of those white carryout cartons as they huddle to discuss the case? The noodles they eat always…

Matcha Cupcakes with Azuki Cream Frosting

If there are two flavors that are destined to be together, it’s matcha and azuki.  If you are familiar with traditional Japanese desserts, you’ll see this combination over and over.  But these matcha cupcakes with azuki…

Sausage Octopus for Bento and Halloween

What does it take to make an octopus laugh?  Ten tickles.  Ha. Funny.  But did you know that octopuses technically have no tentacles?  They have eight arms, not tentacles which are retractable and have a flattened…

Bacon Wrapped Quail Eggs

These bacon-wrapped quail eggs used to be one of our favorite appetizers at a Japanese restaurant in town that has unfortunately closed. We’ve been craving for them since but haven’t been able to find it on the…