My husband works full time and attends school full time, and I'm a full-time Ph.d student. This means we basically see each other once a day: we sit down and have dinner together.
Therefore, I like to have slightly nice dinners we can sit down and enjoy. I don't do anything too elaborate, but it keeps me sane to prepare a nice meal and then share it.
I started posting pictures of the meals I cooked when my father expressed interest in some of my recipes. My husband is Japanese, and we both prefer that cuisine, so my dad was interested in trying some new dishes. Rather than type out every recipe I made, I thought I would post the pictures and he could tell me which ones he wanted. I started by posting pictures of food on my facebook, but now I'm moving to this blog. If there's a recipe you'd like, just comment and I'll post it (eventually--I do get busy sometimes so I make no promises).
This is a meal from a few days ago. I served nappa cabbage-ume pickles (in the blue striped dish), a simmered dish of taro (sticky potato), carrot, shiitake, and green beans, a mix of brown and white rice, some miso garlic pickles and spicy gobo pickles (in the brown wooden dishes in the middle), and a ginnan (ginko nut), ground pork, shiitake, and tofu soup that was truly delicious.

Here's a close-up of the soup:
It was quite good, but I don't know when I'll ever get ginnan again.