Camping & dumpling party at friend’s farm

As I discussed last time, when I have free time… I COOK! My job is to cook and my hobby to cook. (read ⇒this is what I do I am not working) Last month, I was invited to a friends beautiful real free range egg farm, “Willow Zen” to go camping on their farm. Japanese…

This is what I do when I am not working

Hi. I haven’t updated my facebook, instagram, blog or email newsletter for a month. WHY? My husband and I worked crazy hours before the annual Herb and Chilli Festival in March. We had an amazing time at the festival ( massive thanks for those who supported us), so we had to make more of our…

SAORI’s Healthy Japanese Food Challenge day 1

If you have been… -snacking much more than usual -less active -worrying about your health -just totally bored Try this! ” SAORI’s healthy Japanese Food Challenge”  – click to watch ↓↓ What to do Eat regular meals. Then, eat Saori’s suggested healthy Japanese food as a snack instead of junkfood/sweets when you are hungry. I eat…

Shopping list for ‘Healthy Japanese Food Challenge 1 “

Wednesday June 1st ‘Healthy Japanese Food Challenge 1 ” List of ingredients (serves 6 snack) 300g uncooked sushi rice  (What!? Isn’t white rice bad for you? Don’t worry, read this) 1 small carrot any mushrooms – exotic mushrooms such as shimeji, enoki etc taste best but if you can’t find them regular button mushrooms are…

Healthy Japanese Food Challenge (vegan friendly)

If you have been… -snacking much more than usual -less active -worrying about your health -just totally bored (you can read about “corona infected mind” from here) YOU MUST TRY THIS! Healthy Japanese Food Challenge (YEAY!!) I will make all the recipes vegan friendly so everybody can enjoy them but you can add small amounts…

I’ve got corona mind infection!

Hello everyone. How have you been? I am sorry I haven’t updated my blog for nearly one month. Is it because I have been busy? NO, I haven’t been busy (but  I am still getting enough online orders to feed my family so thank you very much for supporting our small business). It has been…

My sauces are really unique…even in Japan!

I went to Japan for a week on a business trip to do market research (for the first time, yay!)  I met an international distributor in Tokyo and he told me my sauces are really unique, even in Japan! The flavour of my sauces is nothing like other sauces in Japan… and he told me…