Here's a really tasty way to enjoy cabbage....hello, are you still with me? Yes, cabbage. I know a lot of people associate cabbage with a...

Here's one of Japan's favourite deep fried foods - ebi fry (pronounced "ebi furai" in the local tongue) - king prawns deep fried in...

Here's a recipe I've made using my new kitchen friend, Ishiri sauce (if you haven't done so already, you can check it out on Youtube at...

If you checked out my latest Youtube tutorial on interesting Japanese foods, you'll know that I recently started using an unusual...

I hope you checked out my "easy teriyaki sauce" post last week - it's a quick way to make a yummy teriyaki sauce without any of the...

How may times have you been to eat out and ordered something that left you thinking, "I think I'll try to make that myself." Here's a...

This week's recipe features fillets of salmon marinated in soy sauce & mirin then wrapped in a sesame coating. This is a combination that...

I hope you all had a great Christmas and saw 2020 in with lots of good things to eat and drink. If, like me, you ate more than you...

We're approaching the end of January and for anyone out there on a diet or a detox, here's another healthy, light dish for you to try -...

I've posted a number of New Year's resolution style, light and healthy veggie dishes in recent weeks but here's something different for...

The Japanese have a love of abbreviations and so it is with this dish - "tendon" is the short form of "tempura donburi", meaning "tempura...

Have you ever come across the Japanese term, "sappari suru"? It means "refreshing" or "cleansing" as in when you come home after a hot...

Here's a recipe that you could call, with just a little stretch of the imagination, "Japanese fish and Chips". You get a fillet of cod...

Ochazuke may just be Japan's oldest dish. I blogged about instant ochazuke recently and that reminded me that I should publish some more...

Poke dishes are on a roll at the moment, aren't they? Unlike pokémon, poke bowls didn't originate in Japan but from Hawaii, where...

i posted a recipe for Chinese style chicken chukadon earlier in the year and as it was well received, I thought I'd create another...

You might remember I posted a Japanese style poke bowl recipe a little time back. Here is what I would call a close cousin to the poke...

Baking food in salt (often but not exclusively fish) has a long history in Japan. Apparently, it goes back several hundred years to the...

Poke bowl dishes are a bit of a think these days, aren't they? As I've said before on my blog, the origins of the poke bowl are a lot...

Here's a winter fish hotpot (or nabe in Japanese) recipe from Japan's northernmost island, Hokkaido. This is a traditional Japanese...