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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.

Pumpkin Spicy Chai Latte drink in a glass topped with whipped cream and cinnamon, sitting on an orange web-pattern placemat.

Pumpkin Spice Chai Latte

This is my Pumpkin Spice Chai Latte drink recipe. You may be aware that pumpkin drinks are a "thing" at the moment. Pumpkin Spice Chai Latte bit of a "thing" at the moment.

Sweet and Dessert dishes

Chicken and Butternut Curry

Chicken and Butternut Curry recipe using a pressure cooker (electric).

Japanese Curry dishes

Smoked salmon salad with grapefruit, cherry tomatoes, croutons, and toast on a glass plate over a blue placemat

Grapefruit Smoked Salmon Salad

Grapefruit Smoked Salmon Salad Recipe Blog. You will find that the combination of grapefruit with smoked salmon is really delicious.

Japanese salads

Colorful mango salad with carrots, tomatoes, green beans, and cilantro on a striped plate. Silver utensils on a dark surface.

Thai style Mango Salad

This quick and easy salad dish is tasty but not spicy.

Thai and Vietnamese Style dishes

Tantan Ramen

Tantan Ramen is know as Tantanmen in Japan.

Japanese One Bowl Meals

Sushi pieces arranged on a white plate, filled with rice, crab sticks, cucumber, and other ingredients. The setting is minimal and elegant.

Futomaki Large Sushi Rolls

Why not try making your own sushi at home? Futomaki sushi rolls also make great finger food at a party or other social event.

Sushi, Chirashi, Poke Bowl, Rice

Blue-patterned bowl of rice with green onions, sesame seeds, and vegetables, set on a dark surface. Another dish seen partially in the background. Kashiwa meshi in Japanese.

Takikomi Gohan with Chicken - Kashiwa Meshi

Japanese rice dish Takikomi Gohan with Chicken is called Kashiwa meshi originally from Kyushu in Japan.

Japanese Chicken dishes

Japanese Onion Soup

This is my twist on French Onion Soup and Japanese miso soup.

Japanese Fusion dishes

Jacketed potato topped with sliced sausages, shredded cheese, and a rich Japanese curry on a white plate. Dark background with a napkin.

Jacket Potato with Japanese Curry

Jacket Potato with Japanese Curry is a great dish for an autumn or winter's day when you need something a bit soulful and warming.

Japanese Fusion dishes

Fried chicken with green onion garnish, mixed greens, and cherry tomatoes on a blue patterned plate, set on a blue placemat.

Fried Chicken with Spring Onion and Lemon

Chicken breasts are a great high protein, low fat option for your diet.

Japanese Chicken dishes

Beetroot and Daikon Salad

This Beetroot and Daikon Salad recipe features three vegetables, beetroot, daikon and green beans.

Japanese salads

A Japanese style chicken risotto in a red Stahl branded cast iron casserol on a bamboo cutting board.

Japanese Chicken Risotto

My Japanese Chicken Risotto is based on a Venetian risotto dish called Risotto alla Sbirraglia (I think the dish translates into English as the Risotto of the Guards of the Serene Republic, which is, I think you will agree, a bit of a mouthful - best left in the original Italian perhaps!) Anyway, if you know your Venetian risottos, you'll know that they are characterised by being quite runny and very smooth and rich and my Japanese take is no exception.

Japanese Fusion dishes