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My blog has over 30 categories featuring Japanese home cooking recipes as well as Chinese, Thai, Korean and fusion dishes. There's something for everybody! Click the More tab below to see what you can find.

Patterned bowl with a poached egg, minced meat, nori, and chopped greens on udon. Set on a floral tablecloth, creating a fresh mood.

Taiwan Maze Udon

This dish is a derivative of Taiwan Maze Soba. You can use my recipe with either udon or soba (or even ramen) noodles and it will work very well

Japanese Summer dishes

Pasta with oba, smoked salmon, red bell peppers, and sauce on a white plate. Silver fork and spoon on dark table in the background.

Smoked Salmon and Oba Linguine

Hand on heart, this is the easiest, quickest way to make a delicious dish of pasta that I know. The dish features that delicious Oba and smoked salmon.

Japanese Fusion dishes

A dish of stir fried tofu, red peppers, and greens on rice in a bowl, with a wooden spoon. Background features a colorful patterned cloth.

Stir fried Tofu Donburi

This dish takes about 25 minutes from the work surface to the table and that includes the time to drain the water out of the tofu, so not only is it healthy and delicious, it's quick and quite simple too. What's not to like about that?

Japanese One Bowl Meals

A plate of sushi rice mixed with salmon, cucumber, corn, rockets, and cherry tomatoes. Light and colorful dish on a patterned plate.

Easy Salmon Maze Sushi..the easiest sushi ever!

Easy Salmon Maze Sushi Recipe Blog.

Sushi, Chirashi, Poke Bowl, Rice

Colorful roasted vegetables with sesame seeds with soy and lemon dressing on a turquoise plate. The background features a striped pattern, creating a fresh, vibrant mood.

Roast Vegetables in a Soy Lemon dressing

Roasted vegetables in a good quality olive oil makes a meat free meal more fillling and satisfying than simmering can and even if you not vegetarian or vegan, it is still a good idea to eat a few main meals every week without any meat.

Vegan dishes

Four wrapped mini onigirazu with avocado, lettuce, and tamagoyaki on a patterned blue cloth. Two cherry tomatoes on the side.

Mini Onigirazu AKA Minigirazu

If you enjoy Japanese food, you might have heard of the name Onigirazu before. What is an Onigirazu?

Japanese light meals

Sliced raw beef, tofu, mushrooms, onion, leek and Chinese cabbages for Sukiyaki. The vibrant colors contrast against the dark background.

Meat and the Japanese

Meat and the Japanese.

Restaurant Review and Culture

Glass bowl with a colorful salad of cauliflower, red peppers, celery, chickpeas, and cilantro with cumin & honey dressing in a glass bowl on a dark countertop. Two metal spoons beside it.

Chickpea and Cauliflower Salad with Cumin and Honey Dressing

The two main ingredients in the salad are, as the title suggests, chickpeas and cauliflower.

Japanese salads

Patterned bowl with sliced chicken, lettuce, tomato, and greens on noodles. Blue and white design, dark background, fresh and colorful. Hiyashi chuka.

Chicken Noodle Salad with Sesame Dressing AKA Hiyashi Chuka

On a hot summer day, a bowl of noodles might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of lunch or dinner.

Japanese Summer dishes

Grilled Japanese teriyaki salmon and vegetable skewers on a plate, alongside a fresh green salad with leafy greens. Vibrant colors, appetizing presentation.

Teriyaki Salmon Skewers

Teriyaki Salmon Skewers are great recipe for barbecue or oven cooking.

Japanese Summer dishes

Colorful salad with cherry tomatoes, yellow peppers, cucumbers, tofu, brown rice and sesame seeds on a white plate. Fork beside, bright setting.

Tofu and Brown Rice salad with Wasabi Soy dressing

This Tofu and Brown Rice salad with Wasabi Soy dressing is a delightful healthy dish with a Japanese flavour of dressing. This dish is also suitable for vegan.

Vegan dishes

Two crispy korokke with sauce on a plate, garnished with three cherry tomatoes and green leaves, set against a neutral background.

Oven baked Sweet Potato Korokke

Every food store in Japan sells them and mums in every kitchen turn them out in their millions every week.

Japanese Vegetable dishes

People stand outside a restaurant with a blue awning and a sign reading "MACHIYA." A wooden bench and information board are visible.

Machiya Restaurant, SW1..a review

My latest Japanese restaurant review took me to a place I've visited a couple of times before with friends - Machiya near London's Soho

Restaurant Review and Culture

A white plate of spaghetti Napolitan with sausages, bell peppers, herbs, and tomato ketchup sauce on a dark table. Sparse green garnish adds freshness.

The Ultimate Spaghetti Napolitan AKA Ketchup Pasta

Japanese spaghetti napolitan or Japanese Ketchup Pasta.

Japanese Fusion dishes

A bowl of stir-fried mushrooms with green onions and red peppers, in a patterned blue bowl with a red rim, on a dark background. donburi.

Kinoko Donburi - Mushroom Rice Bowl

This is a vegan rice bowl as well as for mushroom lavers' dish.

Japanese Vegetable dishes

Onigiri - Tuna Mayo Riceballs

"Onigiri" - the humble riceball - is as old as rice cultivation itself in Japan

Japanese light meals

Katsu Sando

I like to think that if the Earl of Sandwich was alive and kicking today, he would rank the Japanese "sando" (that's the way the Japanese say "sandwich") up there with the best variations on his original idea.

Japanese Sando - sandwiches

Japanese pork ginger with onions called Shogayaki, white rice, and green salad on a white plate. Dish on a patterned tablecloth.

Japanese Pork Ginger - Shogayaki

Japanese Pork Ginger - Shogayaki as it is called in Japanese - is made in just about every home in Japan and there are some good reasons for that - it's easy to make, it's quick and everyone seems to love it.

Japanese Pork dishes