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I recently ate out at OKAN, a specialist okonomiyaki restaurant on London's Southbank. My co-diner ordered this dish - Freid Soy Lotus...

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.

How to grow your own Daikon / White radish.

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

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

My last post was titled, "a healthy Japanese feast" and featured Japanese grilled mackerel. Here's the vegetable recipe to accompany your...

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...

Onigiri-Rice balls.

Here's another recipe using the Japanese superfood - Natto. In this recipe, I use natto in a popular Japanese sushi dish - Gunkan Maki....

Here's a very traditional Japanese side dish that uses a seaweed common in East Asia but (as far as I know) nowhere else - it's called...

OK, first things first. What is tsukudani? Answer: Tsukudani is a cooking technique that involves simmering ingredients in a soy & mirin...

Here's another dish to give your body a nutritional boost - simmered burdock and carrot, which in Japan, is called "kinpira gobo."...

I don't think there can be any doubt that the Japanese love their veggies - it's not uncommon for a Japanese dinner to include 2 or 3...

Here's a healthy vegetable recipe for you. It's also a great way to enjoy aubergine. I know that aubergine divides opinions - some people...

You may have seen this recipe already on my blog with my Japanese Steak salad and Onion sauce dish. I am posting it separately as well...

Here's my recipe for a dish called Daigaku Imo in Japanese which literally translates as "university potato". There are various stories...

The Japanese love their eggplant (or nasu as it's called locally). It's far more a part of Japanese cookery than it is here in the UK,...