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This is a classic tempura recipe.

Here's a Japanese recipe to put the humble but healthy cucumber on top of the taste chart - Wakame and Cucumber salad in a Japanese vinaigrette.

Everything you ever needed to know about Japanese curry cubes.

I have a love/hate relationship with Japanese shiso (which you might know as green perilla) - you know, those large sweet mint leaves with serrated edges you get when you eat sushi and sashimi at a restaurant.) don't get me wrong - I love eating the leaves - not just with sushi but also in salad, or mixed with miso (a dish which is called shiso miso) on rice but I hate buying shiso leaves - they are sooo expensive! Shiso So, the ideal solution is to grow them myself which I n

Chilled Japanese Soba Noodles are called Zaru soba in Japanese. Zarusoba is easy and quick to cook and healthy dish as well.

Here is a very popular Japanese dish that pairs Japanese curry with udon noodles.

How to grow Mizuna and a recipe for using Mizuna.

Fake foods? In Japan? Now, don't worry, it's not what you might think. I'm not going to scare you with stories of horse dressed up as beef or anything like that. I was back in Japan recently and walking around in Tokyo, I was reminded of the displays of the "food samples" in many Japanese ramen plastic food model in Kappabashi, Toyko. restaurants, cafes and other eateries in Japan (like the one on the right here). Correct me if I'm wrong but I think displaying food samples o

How to grow your own Daikon / White radish.

If you've been following my blog, (and I hope you have!) you'll remember that I have been growing Shiso and Mizuna salad. some Japanese salad veg this summer. In fact, it's been a bumper harvest and my shiso and mizuna just keep on giving! So here's a healthy salad using these two lovely leaves and some other veg topped off with some edamame - it's quick, nutricious and just the thing for a warm summer evening when you want something easy and light on your tummy. The recipe i

Japanese comfort food, tenshindon. Its easy to cook and tasty dish.

How to grow your own Kabocha squash or pumpkin.

House Vermont Curry roux is one of the popular curry in Japan. In this blog Im introducing 3 different curry.

This is a quick side dish that's tasty and nutricious.

Simple, quick and very satisfying salad - Tomato Bean and Shiso Salad recipe blog.

Introducing some Japanese leaf garden - Mitsuba.

Here's another recipe featuring Japanese pumpkin, AKA kabocha.

Japanese grilled salted mackerel ( saba no shio yaki ) I think it is generally accepted that the Japanese diet is one of the most healthy in the world and a reason for the longevity of the population. I am sure that you know that the Japanese tend to eat lots of fish, a lot less meat and plenty of veggies. So, I thought I'd show you how to prepare a quick Japanese dinner set that is delicious, easy to make and very healthy. We'll start with the Japanese grilled salted ma

Japanese easy stir fry vegetables.

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 & salted mackerel and stir fried lotus root. I must admit this dish sounds a little creepy in English, (old lady's fingers) but in Japan, it's simply known as "okra". It isn't indigenous to Japan but it is certainly popular and very easy to grow there. It's also a cinch to make this Curried Okra dish. Together with the mackerel and