Despite the best efforts of the British summer, my crop of shiso has really did me proud in 2021. I had several pots of the stuff growing...

I have a love/hate relationship with Japanese shiso (which you might know as green perilla) - you know, those large sweet mint leaves...

I hope you caught my recent post about growing the delicious Japanese leaf, shiso, in pt 1 of my leaf garden posts. Here in pt 2, I'm...

If you've been following my blog, (and I hope you have!) you'll remember that I have been growing some Japanese salad veg this summer. In...

The shiso in my garden is still going strong but with autumn just around the corner, it might not last much longer. So, I've been...

My final "grow your own" leaf vegetable this year is mitsuba, or Japanese parsley. Mitsuba is a versatile leaf - in fact it's more than a...

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,...

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...

Here's my latest uramaki "inside-out" sushi roll. This is my version of an uramaki that my son makes at the sushi bar where he currently...