I made my latest batch of natto last week & posted a "How to make natto" article on the blog - I hope you liked it if you saw it. Now...

Back at the start of the year, I posted an onigiri recipe - onigiri with tuna mayo. Here are three more onigiri recipes for you - onigiri...

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

Younger Japanese (and not a few older ones) love Halloween. Millions of people strut their spooky stuff in Tokyo, Osaka and other cities...

You might remember I posted an item on making shisomiso a couple of weeks ago. I put some of it to good use in some onigirazu, paired...

Of all the Western dishes that Japan has made it's own, I think doria might be my favourite. If you've never heard of or eaten a doria,...

Here's a recipe which sounds better in Japanese, "niku dango", than in English - plain old meat balls! But Niku Dango are actually far...

Here's another recipe using the Japanese superfood - Natto. In this recipe, I use natto in a popular Japanese sushi dish - Gunkan Maki....

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...

Here's a one-pot winter warmer from Japan...oden. While oden might not be so well known outside of Japan, it is very popular with the...

Temaki sushi - "hand rolled sushi" - is a great party food for adults or kids. Everyone can get stuck in and roll their own sushi with...

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

You might have seen my recipe for Tonkatsu (pork cutlet) that I posted earlier this year - if you tried it yourself, I hope you liked it....

You'd be forgiven here in the UK for thinking that there's only one brand of Japanese soy sauce and that it's name is Kikkoman. It's true...

Here's my chicken doria recipe - just the ticket for a gloomy, soggy evening when you get home wanting some warming, comfort food. If...

My daikon and cucumber salad makes an ideal detox dish if you feel you've been over-doing the calories recently and want a few days of...

Here's a quick, healthy Japanese soup for you to make. I always thought this soup was French as it is called "corn potage" in Japan. but...

"There's a pig in my soup!" This could the start of a corny joke...but it's not. In Japan this dish - Tonjiru, literally means "pork...

Fruit sandwiches, known as "fruits sando" in Japan, are a very popular snack/light lunch and ubiquitous across the country's cafes and...

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