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..Meat and the Japanese..

As a Japanese living in London, I am always struck by the big cultural difference in attitudes towards the eating of meat between the UK...

..Your 5-a-day in 5 minutes..

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...

..Fried Soy Lotus Root..

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

..simple Shiso and Soy salad dressing..

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...

Sweet & Sour fried Tofu

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

..Korean savoury pancake / Pajeon..

My latest recipe is korea's favourite pancake - the pajeon (pa = spring onion, jeon = pancake.) At its most basic, the pajeon is a...

..Tofu katsu + Japanese curry = Food Heaven..

I can't think of a more popular Japanese food at the moment than curry. The thing with a Japanese curry is that you have to "get it" -...

A Japanese leaf garden (pt 1).

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

Chilled Japanese soba noodles.

There are some days when you just want to eat something cold, aren't there? You get home, hot and maybe a little sticky and the thought...

A Japanese leaf garden (pt 2)

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...

Daikon from seed.

Daikon (or mouli or white radish, as you may know it) is one of my favourite vegetables. You can eat the whole plant, not just the white...

Shiso & mizuna salad.

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...

Grow your own kabocha.

Here's the latest in my "grow your own Japanese veggies" posts. This time, we're looking at pumpkins, or "kabocha" in Japanese. Not only...

Simmered Japanese Pumpkin.

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...

Shiso & Tomato salad.

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...

Japanese roasted Pumpkin salad.

Here's another recipe featuring Japanese pumpkin, AKA kabocha. Roasted foods are not very common in Japan mostly because until recent...

Stir fried Lotus Root.

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

Curried Okra.

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

An Autumnal Miso Soup.

Looking out of the window this morning, it's misty and the leaves on the trees are turning into a chequerboard of faded greens and browns...

Shiso + Miso = Shisomiso!

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...

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