Grow and Make your own

..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...

..have fun with a Takoyaki maker..

Look at the picture above. You could be forgiven for thinking you were looking at savoury choux creams, couldn't you? In fact, you're...

Natto Linguine

You may have seen the article I posted about natto and how to make it. Here's a delicious & easy fusion recipe (what I like to call...

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...

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...

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...

A Japanese leaf garden (pt3).

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...

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...

Natto - Japan's Marmite.

Just like marmite in the UK, natto is a food that divides opinions in Japan - you either love it or you hate it. So what exactly is...

Vegetable Tempura.

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

Edamame - how to grow your own.

I've never met a soul who doesn't like edamame, have you? They are truly at their best eaten freshly picked straight out of the garden -...

Wasabi Rocket - how to grow your own.

I don't know if you're well acquainted with wasabi rocket. If you are, maybe like me, you are a recent convert. Earlier this year, I was...

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