Molecular Tapas Bar Floating dishes in the bar The delightful Chef Jeff Ramsey Last week for Valentine’s Day I took R. to the Molecular Bar on the 38th floor of the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Tokyo. I have been wanting to go to this place for a few years now, ever since I first ran […]

Pasta with white sauce Chicken Fried Rice I made it home an hour earlier than R. today, so I figured I would cook. I do that sometimes. I don’t really know what I’m doing; I just look up whatever it is that I want to eat. Or some close approximation. A few weeks back I […]

Royce Chocolate Potato Chips For the past few months, we’ve had a mysterious box in our refrigerator. It was labeled “Royce Potato Chip Chocolate”, which mystified me. It looked like it was chocolate. But it said something in there about potato chips. I had a hard time consolidating those two concepts. I was almost convinced […]

Dave Cooking Ratatouille, corn soup, and steak Chocolate Fondant and Strawberry Ice Cream In Japan, the pixar movie “Ratatouille” was called “Remi’s Delicious Restaurant” (レミの美味しいレストラン). I have a whole spiel about how Japanese movie titles are basically the entire movie plot in a single sentence (like, The Sixth Sense would be titled “A kid sees […]

Some variation of this was. It was pretty good too. I think R. might have snapped a shot before we ate, but I didn’t. We don’t have a real camera anymore either, just cell phone cameras now.