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A Japanese leaf garden (pt 1).

I have a love/hate relationship with Japanese shiso (which you might know as green perilla) - you know, those large sweet mint leaves...

Daikon from seed.

Daikon (or mouli or white radish, as you may know it) is one of my favourite vegetables. You can eat the whole plant, not just the white...

Shiso & mizuna salad.

If you've been following my blog, (and I hope you have!) you'll remember that I have been growing some Japanese salad veg this summer. In...

Grow your own kabocha.

Here's the latest in my "grow your own Japanese veggies" posts. This time, we're looking at pumpkins, or "kabocha" in Japanese. Not only...

Shiso & Tomato salad.

The shiso in my garden is still going strong but with autumn just around the corner, it might not last much longer. So, I've been...

A Japanese leaf garden (pt3).

My final "grow your own" leaf vegetable this year is mitsuba, or Japanese parsley. Mitsuba is a versatile leaf - in fact it's more than a...

Japanese roasted Pumpkin salad.

Here's another recipe featuring Japanese pumpkin, AKA kabocha. Roasted foods are not very common in Japan mostly because until recent...

Shiso + Miso = Shisomiso!

The Japanese love to have a selection of fermented and pickled foods to eat with their rice at dinner and today, I'm looking at one of...

Natto - Japan's Marmite.

Just like marmite in the UK, natto is a food that divides opinions in Japan - you either love it or you hate it. So what exactly is...

Classic Natto & 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...

Vegetable Tempura.

Well, Halloween is just around the corner and the shops are full of pumpkins. Personally, I think pumpkin is such a delicious vegetable,...

Shisomiso and Natto Onigirazu.

You might remember I posted an item on making shisomiso a couple of weeks ago. I put some of it to good use in some onigirazu, paired...

Natto Maki sushi rolls.

Ah, natto....that great divider of opinions. Are you a lover or a hater, or just a, "never tried that before" kind of person? If you've...

Tamagoyaki and Shiso Uramaki.

Here's my latest uramaki "inside-out" sushi roll. This is my version of an uramaki that my son makes at the sushi bar where he currently...

Edamame - how to grow your own.

I've never met a soul who doesn't like edamame, have you? They are truly at their best eaten freshly picked straight out of the garden -...

Wasabi Rocket - how to grow your own.

I don't know if you're well acquainted with wasabi rocket. If you are, maybe like me, you are a recent convert. Earlier this year, I was...

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