Hi, I’m Yukari! My husband, Aric, a talented chef, and I are on a mission to bring people together through the magic of cooking. We want to build a virtual cooking community where we share budget-friendly meal prep tips, host fun challenges, and teach classes beyond recipes—we tell stories of love, life, and even the lessons we learn from our fur babies. Yes, our Bernese Mountain Dog, Senna, the Dish Pit Pup, and our Ginger cat, Ka-En, the Sous Chef Kitten, are part of the journey too! We believe food is more than just fuel—it’s about connection, culture, and creativity. If you enjoy heartwarming stories, engaging Q&As, and cooking made simple, we’d love to have you in our community.🔪🍲 Join us to cook, laugh, and share the love—one meal at a time.
Welcome to The Kitchen Table 🍽️ (You Helped Build It!)
A new space for smarter, simpler, more joyful cooking, with YOU at the center.Hello Reader,It's Yukari! The blog is taking a pause… but YOU just helped start something even better! We're pressing pause on the blog for a little while. But not because we're stepping away. In fact, it's the opposite. Something new is simmering… and YOU helped name it! In our last email, I asked what we should name this newsletter, and you voted! 🎉 (Thank YOU!🙏) Welcome to More connection. More support. Less polished perfection, more practical help. And this isn't just our project. It's a community we're building with you. 🍽️ Here's what you can expect:🗳️ Quick polls on what classes, recipes, and tools you want next, and our logo design-making decision 🎨 Behind-the-scenes peeks into our daily kitchen life 👩🍳 Exclusive recipes and printable guides for your home cooking 📬 Real Talk from something light (chaotic Ka-En chasing after Senna, not the other way around 🤣) to deeper food & wellness topics (current food and health industry, food insecurity, and more!) P.S. While the blog's on pause, our Personal Chef Services in Colorado are still going strong, including Private Dinner Parties and In-Home Cooking Classes. (Currently, our weekly meal prep service has a waitlist.) 🎄 Holiday bookings fill up fast, so now's a great time to lock in your date! [BOOK NOW!] With love (and probably BBQ sauce on our aprons), P.P.S. Wanna peek at the blog update? 📖 Read it here
Thanks for being part of our Kitchen Table, and Happy Cooking! |
Yukari Bianchi
Hi, I’m Yukari! My husband, Aric, a talented chef, and I are on a mission to bring people together through the magic of cooking. We want to build a virtual cooking community where we share budget-friendly meal prep tips, host fun challenges, and teach classes beyond recipes—we tell stories of love, life, and even the lessons we learn from our fur babies. Yes, our Bernese Mountain Dog, Senna, the Dish Pit Pup, and our Ginger cat, Ka-En, the Sous Chef Kitten, are part of the journey too! We believe food is more than just fuel—it’s about connection, culture, and creativity. If you enjoy heartwarming stories, engaging Q&As, and cooking made simple, we’d love to have you in our community.🔪🍲 Join us to cook, laugh, and share the love—one meal at a time.
Salt, Hands, and a Japanese Potato Salad Hello Reader, It's Yukari! Salt and your hands can change everything you cook.(Stick around for Aric’s 1-minute chef’s tip!👨🏻🍳) But first, I want to take you back to a little Japanese kitchen, where I learned the real magic of cooking… “The Potato Salad That Changed My Perspective” I visited Terumi and enjoyed her warm "Omotenashi" until I moved to the US. I still call it "Terumi's Potato Salad" 💖 One evening, she made classic Japanese potato salad. I...
One Spoon, Big Change Hello Reader, It's Yukari! Today I’m thinking about the tiniest tool in the kitchen... a spoon, and how one taste can change everything you cook and share. It’s the thread that ties generosity to good food, the first nudge toward real hospitality. (Stick around for Aric’s chef tip at the end! 👨🏻🍳) But first… come with me to the kitchen where “Taste this” became the lesson I didn’t know I needed. “Taste This” Remember the Chawanmushi incident? That’s how I met Terumi, the...
A Whisper That Changed My Cooking. Plus Our $100 Grocery Challenge. Hello Reader, It's Yukari! Today, I want to rediscover what happened when Aric and I did $100 Grocery Challenge back in January 2025. (Remember? 🤣) Aric and I had fun doing it, and we learned some lessons along the way. I saved many things Aric talked about cooking during the time, and I can't wait to share his wisdom, too. But first... let me take you back to the kitchen that woke me up, kicked me out of bed, and taught me...