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"I was recently digging through some recipes that my parent's Japanese maid used while my father (US Navy) was stationed in Yokosuka, Japan during the late '60's and found this really easy salad."

Ingredients: cucumbers, salt, sugar...

"This Japanese style salad is designed as a side salad, almost a garnish, in which a little goes a long way."

Ingredients: egg noodles, ginger...

"Soboro is a salty-sweet Japanese dish that is used in many ways - you can put it into onigiri, serve it over rice, stir-fry it with veggies, or put it into scrambled eggs. It keeps in the refridgerator for a week and can be frozen, so you can easily make more than you need and have an easy meal later in the week. It seems that in Japan, they consider..."

Ingredients: canned tuna, low sodium soy sauce...

"I crave sushi a couple of times a week so I bought a sushi maker to cut down on prep time. It's wonderful but I always end up with small pieces of sushi nori left over, they weren't any good for making sushi with so they were being thrown away or munched absently. I came up with this idea after an order from the online grocers and have been..."

Ingredients: nori, coarse sea salt...

"Great used to cleanse the palate while eating sushi. I happen to love it to eat along with my sushi :)"

Ingredients: fresh gingerroot, salt, sugar...

"You can use these just like gomashio. Mix it with leftover rice and form it into rice balls for a bag lunch! Adapted from Deborah Madison's Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone."

Ingredients: nori, red pepper flakes...

"This is an easy and yummy Japanese style pickle. From Bento Boxes by Naomi Kijima."

Ingredients: soy sauce, carrots...

"From Just Bento"

Ingredients: raw sugar, light brown sugar...

"I normally make this using whole refrigerated bamboo shoot that I can purchase in Japanese market nearby in California. If whole bamboo shoot is used, cut lengthwise into about 1/4 in slices first. Then cut into 1/4 inch slices. Finally cut the 1/4 inch slices into half. The slices do not need to be perfect - they will taste great when finished...."

Ingredients: garlic cloves, red pepper flakes...

"This ginger is normally used to cleanse the palate between different types of sushi so you get the full flavor of each piece of sushi."

Ingredients: honey, rice vinegar, salt...