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Miso Udon Hotpot I've posted a number of New Year's resolution style, light and healthy veggie dishes in recent weeks but here's something different for you (still pretty healthy though and definitely tasty) - red miso udon. I don't count myself as an authority on miso but as far as I know, this fermented soya bean paste falls into three categories - white, yellow and red. (Some people say there are four categories, with black being the fourth, but the black miso I've seen ju

Japanese Tomato Hotpot My latest recipe is a modern take on the traditional Japanese hotpot, which in Japanese, we call Nabe. In many Japanese homes, a nabe dish is cooked over a portable gas cooker on the kitchen table - it's a very communal food that people share, add more raw food to the pot, cook and share again. (Of course, you can always cook this on your hob as well as I did in the Youtube tutorial!) Unlike a western stew dish, Japanese nabe tend to be quite light and