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This is a Japanese dressing using Shiso leaves. Shiso and Soy salad dressing.

Stir fried Corned Beef and Sugarsnaps This recipe takes me back to when my first English language cookbook was published in 1994. The book was called 'Japanese Cooking for Two' and this recipe - "Stir Fried Corned Beef and Sugar Snaps" was one of the recipes inside. You might be thinking that corned beef doesn't exactly sound Japanese but it has quite a history in Japan - there is even a Japanese Corned Beef Day - April 6th! Corned beef became popular after the end of the Se

Teriyaki Salmon Donburi This week's recipe is Teriyaki Salmon Donburi. As you probably know, donburi in Japanese describes a dish where foods are presented on a bowl of white rice. So, this dish is really quite simple, salmon + teriyaki sauce + rice = Teriyaki Salmon Donburi. (I took the liberty of adding some vegetables in the form of a couple of stems of broccoli). But don't let this dish deceive you, while it looks quite simple, the tastes, done right, can be rich and

Miso marinated Pork loins are umami rich flavour with miso.

Takoyaki is one f the street food in Japan. but you can also make Takoyaki at home.

Kanten is vegan jelly and healthy.

cheese and sundried tomato scones if i ever go back to live in japan, one thing i shall surely miss from my life in the uk is the cheese. you see, japan doesn't really do cheese - of course, you can buy cheese in japan but it tends to be the rather bland, waxy processed sort that comes in slices. since i came to the uk 30 years ago, i have become a lover of all sorts of cheese. in fact, most japanese people who live abroad for any time in a "cheesy place" tend to fall in lov

Here's my latest vegetable Japanese curry recipe. I used the hot version of "Golden" vegetable curry cubes for this dish.

Japanese easy stir fry vegetables.

Classic Natto and Rice I made my latest batch of natto last week & posted a "How to make natto" article on the blog - I hope you liked it if you saw it. Now that I've got a nice stash of the sticky superfood prepared, I'm ready to provide some ideas for how to use it to create some tasty and very healthy dishes. I'm starting with the "classic" way to eat natto - with a bowl of steamed white rice - this is widely eaten for breakfast in Japan but don't let that stop you eating

Here's my Japanese chicken doria recipe - just the ticket for a gloomy, soggy evening when you get home wanting some warming and comfort food.

Here's my recipe for Kakiage Tempura Soba - this combines tempura battered vegetables and shrimps and buckwheat soba noodles all served in a bowl of soba noodle broth

This quick Japanese Steak salad is served with Japanese Onion Sauce.

Lotus Root crisps I am sure you're all aware that American potato chips become crisps when you set foot in the UK and it probably doesn't come as a surprise that Japan sits in the American camp using the term chips as well. What might be more surprising is that the Japanese use other vegetables to make their chips (sorry, UK readers, I mean "crisps"). One of the most visually appealing alternative chips, I think you will agree, is the lotus root. This root vegetable is quit

Miso Tahini sauce I am a big fan of combining Japanese ingredients with foods from other cultures. So the other day, I tried out a new sauce combining Japanese miso with tahini. Both miso and tahini are quite rich and I thought the combination might be a bit overwhelming but, somewhat to my surprise, the result is truly outstanding. What you get is a thick, rich sauce with a big umami-ful nutty miso flavour. Combining miso and tahini also means you're getting a lot of protein

Tofu Skewers in Miso Tahini sauce I'm in Japan at the moment visiting friends and family. Before I left, I developed a really nice Miso Tahini sauce which I thought would be a perfect accompaniment for barbecue foods - I posted it on the blog last week. The weather at the time wasn't great so I resorted to my grill indoors to try out some grilled Tofu kebabs with the sauce and I can safely say it worked very well! This is a great dish to serve to vegetarians, vegans and als

Teriyaki Salmon Skewers I hope you checked out my "easy teriyaki sauce" post last week - it's a quick way to make a yummy teriyaki sauce without any of the nasties (stabilisers, emulsifiers etc) that you get with a shop bought sauce. Here's a great way to use teriyaki sauce - teriyaki salmon skewers. Summer is beach barbecue time in Japan and this is a firm favourite, especially if you want something a little lighter over your charcoal than steak. Of course, you don't have to

Matcha Muffinscheese cake Have you ever seen the very entertaining "Paul Hollywood in Japan" series? Yes, that Paul Hollywood , the celebrity chef and baker. He goes to Japan to sample the food culture and entertain us with a few quirky features of Japanese life. Anyway, I was interested to see how surprised he was by the quantity and quality of Japanese bakeries. But I'd forgotten that most people react like that when they're in Japan for the first time - they just don't e