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"Fresh and light, the flavors in this creamy pasta dish are so amazing you'll want to lick the plate!"

Ingredients: chives, cornstarch...

"This looked interesting, and I am posting here for safekeeping. Will update description when I try it. Good thing about it is that it offers substitutes for hard-to-find Asian ingredients. A recipe by Haryumi Kurihara, the "empress of Japanese domesticity" based on an article I cut out of the NY Times."

Ingredients: dry sherry, eggplants...

"One of the only ways I like green beans! This comes from Japanese Home Style Cooking, a book given to me by a girl who lived with us. Prep time includes allowing the beans to stand in the soy sauce."

Ingredients: dashi, green beans...

"I found this in the NY Times and thought it would be yummy! I plan on trying it soon."

Ingredients: cilantro, salt & freshly ground black pepper...

"I love sushi for the ways in which the textures and flavours of its ingredients are uniquely highlighted. This unusual sounding roll was inspired by a favourite dish of mine, peanut butter and pickle sandwiches (like those described in Peanut Butter and Pickle Sandwiches), in which creamy, nutty peanut butter perfectly compliments the crisp texture and garlicky tang of..."

Ingredients: nori, sushi rice...

"Adapted from a recipe by chef Kiyoharu Kuroda, Maekawa Bar, Seattle. This dish has been described as looking somewhat "alive" when it is served, because when the extremely thin shavings come in close contact with the heat and moisture rising from the just-cooked lotus root, they flutter. Posted on request."

Ingredients: bonito flakes, fresh lotus root...

"Soba are Japanese buckwheat noodles - you can find them at some grocery stores; if not, any Asian food store should have them. (The recipe originally called for ramen, but I just couldn't do that to people). I've also had good luck finding dried shiitake mushrooms at a reasonable price at Asian food stores. Prep time includes the final sitting..."

Ingredients: fresh snow peas, soba noodles...

"If you didn't need to eat GF, you would just use one of the boxed rouxs, like the Japanese do (House Vermont Curry, etc.) But those contain wheat flour, so... I like to add a cup of sour cream at the end, which is not Japanese, but makes it even more rich tasting."

Ingredients: rice flour, curry powder...

"This recipe was added in response to a forum post."

Ingredients: creamy peanut butter, potato starch...

"I lived in Iwakuni, Japan and had many friends. This is a recipe I learned to cook while living there,on a kerosene burner."

Ingredients: eggs, dashi, margarine...

"This is my way of experimenting with Nori, the Japanese toasted seaweed sheets that are found rolled up in sushi. The result is great used as a salad dressing, dipping sauce for crudite, or sauce for white sticky rice."

Ingredients: nori, low sodium soy sauce...

"A fool-proof Asian noodle salad that always turns out perfectly. Dressing can be made up to 2 days in advance and stored in the fridge."

Ingredients: dried red pepper flakes, fresh ginger...