Cottage pie or shepherd's pie is a meat pie with a crust of mashed potato.

I baked an apple pie.

Jambon d'york en croute.

Cherries are red.

Cherry blossom season is here. Viewing the delicate flower is a seasonal excuse in Japan for friends, family and colleagues to get together and enjoy food and beers underneath the full bloom of sakura.

The early flowering cherry blossoms are in full bloom!

Strong winds and spring showers down cherry blossom petals.

A path is covered in cherry blossom petals.

A cherry petal accidentally fell into a drink.

Taking your puppy to a park where cherry blossoms are in bloom will make for great photo ops.

Cherry blossoms at Chidorigafuchi park near Kudanshita station in Tokyo.

Spring in Japan Means More Than Just Flowering Cherry Trees

So we take a carrot cake, put it in a blender, and we have kind of like a carrot cake juice, and then that went into a balloon frozen in liquid nitrogen to create this hollow shell of carrot cake ice cream, I guess, and it comes off looking like, you know, Jupiter's floating around your plate.

So all you need is good cheese and a jar of black cherry jam.

Photo of Cherry Blossoms In January by Night Heron on Flickr.

They did chicken pot pie, they did fried chicken, and then they finally introduced Chicken McNuggets.

Walking underneath the full bloom of sakura can feel like walking through a floral tunnel.

Flickr user y.ganden spotted a Japanese Bush Warbler in the blooming sakura trees.

Cherry 01 adjusted its flight plan and made up the time lost at engine start.

So, let me present the question to you If our benchmark for Americanness is apple pie, you should ask yourself, how often do you eat apple pie, versus how often do you eat Chinese food. Right?

In some European traditions sour cherries are used both between the layers and for decorating the top.

It's common to see people napping under the cherry blossoms after so much drinking.

Photo taken in Yawata, Kyoto on April 1, 2014 by Flickr user Japanexperterna.

We decided to do something a little bit different and transform flavors that were very familiar so in this case, we have carrot cake.

Another irony, the double irony is that on the figs and the olives, Eduardo can make more money selling those than he can on the foie gras.

First, the prospect of riches orients official efforts to seizing a larger share of the pie, rather than creating a larger pie.

This is the basis of the famous Cherry red spot seen on examination of the retina on funduscopy of a central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO).

Let's say, for the sake of argument, my mission is to get 15 pies and I can get 15 pies by killing these cute, little monsters.

That will happen much more frequently than the random motions of atoms making you an apple orchard and some sugar and an oven, and then making you an apple pie.

Where employees have high bargaining power, the profits pie is constantly up for re division, both within the firm and at the national level.

If we want to engage someone in the process of opening boxes to try and find pies, we want to make sure it's neither too easy, nor too difficult, to find a pie.

The French presidential election may be over, but the fact that outgoing president Nicolas Sarkozy chose immigration as a core theme of his campaign is still the subject of much debate on the Web.

The couple are shown in an upstairs room with a chest and a bed in it during early summer as indicated by the fruit on the cherry tree outside the window.

This building, when an artistic director wanted to do a Cherry Orchard and wanted people and wanted people to come out of a well on the stage, they brought a backhoe in, and they simply dug the hole.

I'm going to take the one that sounds the weakest, the one that's just motherhood and apple pie governments, mutual systems of support for governments and I'm going to show you one idea in how we could do something to strengthen governance, and I'm going to show you that that is enormously important now.

Japanese media tracks and reports on the pollen season each year in much the same way it reports on the blooming of the cherry blossoms.

When you think of springtime in Japan, the first thing that comes to mind is iconic clouds of cotton candy pink blossoms, known as sakura (桜) in Japanese. The flowers bloom earliest in Japan's southwest, advancing north and eastward across the archipelago in what is known as the cherry blossom front or sakura zensen (桜前線).