If you read my restaurant review for the ramen bar, Tenmaru, you'll know that I was very impressed with their potato mochi. So, I...

Eating 5 vegetable portions a day doesn't have to mean eating a salad. Here's a simple recipe that takes only a little longer than 5...

If you read my recipe blog regularly, you probably know that I love aubergine. I think it is a much under rated vegetable here in the UK,...

My latest recipe is a simple, healthy salad where Japanese daikon is the star turn. (Daikon translates simply as "big root" in English)...

I recently ate out at OKAN, a specialist okonomiyaki restaurant on London's Southbank. My co-diner ordered this dish - Freid Soy Lotus...

Ma Po's Aubergine

I am sure I am not alone in being very, very partial to Gyoza. (AKA Chinese dumplings, AKA Potstickers.) I probably eat gyoza at least...

Miso soup must be the most popular dish in Japan. At least half the Japanese population drink miso soup three times or more every week. ...

If you read my blog, you'll know that my family are okonomiyaki fans. We're also cheese fans, so I thought, why not combine okonomiyaki...

This recipe takes me back to when my first English language cookbook was published in 1994. The book was called 'Japanese Cooking for...

Sweet & sour fried Tofu is a variant on the ubiquitous Chinese recipe, sweet and sour pork. Using tofu makes the dish more healthy and,...

here's my latest vegetable Japanese curry recipe. I used the hot version of "Golden" vegetable curry cubes for this dish. the vegetables...

Hello everyone. I still have a few pumpkins growing in the garden and one leftover in the larder, so I thought I'd make another...

My last post was titled, "a healthy Japanese feast" and featured Japanese grilled mackerel. Here's the vegetable recipe to accompany your...

This is the final dish in my "Japanese feast" feature which I started last week. You might recall that the other dishes were grilled &...

The Japanese love to have a selection of fermented and pickled foods to eat with their rice at dinner and today, I'm looking at one of...

Well, Halloween is just around the corner and the shops are full of pumpkins. Personally, I think pumpkin is such a delicious vegetable,...

Here's a very traditional Japanese side dish that uses a seaweed common in East Asia but (as far as I know) nowhere else - it's called...

OK, first things first. What is tsukudani? Answer: Tsukudani is a cooking technique that involves simmering ingredients in a soy & mirin...

Here's another dish to give your body a nutritional boost - simmered burdock and carrot, which in Japan, is called "kinpira gobo."...